Complaints about Social Workers Cafcass: upheld/not upheld
Dear Health and Care Professions Council,
Please supply me with the following information under FOIA :
1. How many complaints have you received about social workers registered with you who are contracted by Cafcass since 2010 - 2018 please break the numbers down year on year ?
2. Of these complaints year on year how many have been upheld ?
3. Of these complaints year on year how many have not been upheld ?
Yours faithfully,
[Name Removed]
Dear Ms Soeder
Thank you for your email dated 26 January 2019, in which you ask for the
number of fitness to practise complaints the HCPC has received about
social workers working for Cafcass.
We are treating this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA).
We will deal with your request as promptly as possible and at the latest,
within 20 working days of receiving it, as required by the FOIA. If you
have any queries about your request please do contact us using this email
address, or the address below.
The reference number for your request is FR05981.
Yours sincerely
Maxine Pryce
Information Governance Manager
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 – 186 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4BU
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Our Ref. FR05981
Dear Ms Soeder
Thank you for your email dated 26 January 2019, in which you ask for the
number of fitness to practise complaints the HCPC has received about
social workers working for Cafcass.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA).
We are unable to provide the information requested as the information is
not held in an easily accessible format. In order for us to provide you
with the information you have requested we would need to examine
individual fitness to practise (FTP) cases and extract the relevant
information and this would exceed the cost limit under Section 12 of the
FOIA, that being £450.
Staff time can be charged at £25 per hour for employee time, which is a
total of 18 hours before the limit is met. We estimate to access each case
and extract the relevant information would take 5 minutes per case.
Between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 we received a total of 1,174 FTP
concerns about social workers in England. 1,174 multiplied by 7 minutes
equates to 97 hours, therefore exceeding the cost limit.
Sorry that we are unable to assist you further with your request.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 – 186 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4BU
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