Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In consideration of the request, which may be subject to any exemptions/
exceptions the Council may rely on to refuse the request, some of which
are absolute and some of which only apply where the public interest in
maintaining the exemption/exception outweighs that in disclosing the
information.

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.  If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice.  This
will detail the tasks involved in responding to the request, and
associated costs.  Further information is available on the EIR page of
Bedford Borough Council’s website at the following link:

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Please note that once a response has been forwarded to you an anonymised
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Our current practise is that the information will be available to view on
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Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Aimee Stanton

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No 14068

I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the
Council under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Under the Freedom of Information Act the authority must state whether or
not the information exists and I confirm that we do not hold this
information. 

You will need to contact the settings directly for this information.  A
list of settings and their contact details can be found via the following
link: [1]https://earlyhelp.bedford.gov.uk/results...

You requested:

Can I please request, in the form of a spreadsheet such as Excel or CSV
file, an itemised list of all council nurseries, the number of staff and
the number of children in each nursery.

To include,

The name and address of each nursery

The number of children registered in each nursery The number of teachers
in each nursery* The number of other nursery staff (e.g. nursery
assistants, etc)*

*For teacher and other nursery staff numbers please include staff numbers
from the years 2015 to 2019. Please include the number of teachers and
other staff under separate columns for each year. E.g. Year - 2015, Number
of teachers, Number of Other Nursery Staff and so on.

If for whatever reason you are unhappy with our response to your
application you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction through the
Council's Internal Review Procedure.  Pursuant to Section 17 (7) of the
Act the procedure provided by the Council for dealing with complaints
about the determination of this request for information is the Council’s
FOI Complaints Procedure, a copy of which can be obtained on request or is
set out at: 
http://www.bedford.gov.uk/council_and_de...

Yours sincerely

Daniela Hanson

Freedom of Information Administrator (Children's Services)

Support Services

Children's Services

Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP

Tel: 01234 276749 (Internal 44749)

Website: www.bedford.gov.uk 

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Colin Foster, Director of Children’s Services

Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford MK42 9AP DX 117105 Bedford 4

Phone (01234) 267422   Minicom (01234) 221827   Web www.bedford.gov.uk

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