ContactPoint

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Under the Freedom of Information Act please provide me with the following information:

When will ContactPoint be deployed to this LA?

Has the local authority completed ContactPoint shielding, and are they confident that shielding has been applied to every record that needs it?

What specific guidance on shielding has been received by the local authority? If the guidance is not statutory, what does the local authority believe to be its
basis in law?

How has the local authority decided which records should be shielded? Have the children of high-profile people such as celebrities and MPs been shielded? If so, how has their status been decided?

What does the local authority understand its legal responsibilities to be if harm is caused to a child or family because of failure to shield a ContactPoint
record?

What publicity work has been undertaken to inform local residents about ContactPoint and how to request shielding?

How has the local authority ensured that those who are not at school have received Fair Processing Notices, for example, home educators or young people of
16-18 who have left school?

How has the local authority adapted Fair Processing Notices to ensure that they are understood by parents with learning difficulties or mental health problems, and those whose first language is not English?

Has everyone in the area been told how to apply for shielding in future if they are, for example, leaving a violent partner without the knowledge of any statutory services?

Is there a standard procedure to shield the records of children who become vulnerable, eg because of a court case or because they have run away from home? How long would the shielding process take?

Yours faithfully,

Matt Hupfield

Stibbs, Lian (L&G), Staffordshire County Council

Dear Mr Hupfield,

I acknowledge receipt of your request. A response will be released by or on 10/04/09.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs
Access to Information Officer

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Stibbs, Lian (L&G), Staffordshire County Council

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Dear Mr Hupfield,

Please find Staffordshire County Councils response to your request for
information below.

If you have any queries or require any further information please do not
hesitate to contact me.

In the first instance if you have any comments relating to how your
request has been handled by our authority, please contact Philip Jones,
Head of Information Governance, Information Governance Unit, 1a Bailey
Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG.

If you have any further comments relating to how your request has been
handled by our authority, please contact the Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours Sincerely,

 

Lian Rebecca Stibbs

Access to Information Officer

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Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

Thank you for the 'Guidance on Shielding' document.

The provision of this document does not however provide answers to any of the questions I asked.

Could you please re-read my request and provide me with answers to my original questions. As this is not a new request I would like to think it will not take another 20 working days to receive this information.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

Stibbs, Lian (L&G), Staffordshire County Council

Dear Mr Hupfield,

In addition to the attached document entitled 'guidance on shielding' a full response was sent in relation to each of your questions. To access this on the what do they know website you will need to click on the show quoted sections link. We cannot be held responsible for the way in which the 'what do they know' website operates, a response was provided in full within the deadline.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Stibbs

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Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

Thank you for providing this information and pointing me in the direction of finding it. Please accept my apologies for not having noticed it before.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

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