Dear Ms Gray

Your request for information ref. SOT71326

Thank you for your requests for information about special educational
needs support for gypsy and traveller children.

Under section 12 of the Act a local authority is able to aggregate
requests in the following circumstances:

·         two or more requests for information have been made to the same
public authority

·         they must be either from the same person, or from 'different
persons who appear to the public authority to be acting in concert or in
pursuance of a campaign'

·         the requests must relate to the same or similar information

·         they must have been received by the public authority within a
space of 60 consecutive working days

The local authority considers that your requests fall into this category
and they will therefore be aggregated into 1 request.

Your request was received by the Information Rights Team on 15 August
2018.  This is being dealt with under the terms of the appropriate
Information Rights legislation.

In some circumstances we may charge for information.  If there is a charge
we will let you know, as you will have to pay it before we deal with your
request.

Some information does not have to be released under this legislation.  We
will check the information you have asked for and send you as much as
possible.  If another person or organisation is named in the information,
we may have to ask their opinion before we decide what we can give you.

You should expect to receive a response to your request on or before 13
September 2018 in line with the legislation's 20 working day statutory
deadline.

For your information we may publish the response to your request on our
City Council's website, which can be found at the following address:
[1]www.stoke.gov.uk.

If you have any queries about this email please do not hesitate to contact
us.

You can find details of how we handle your personal information by
visiting [2]www.stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights

Information Rights

Floor 2 Civic Centre Glebe Street

Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH

City of Stoke-on-Trent 

t 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

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Dear Ms Gray

Your request for information ref. SOT71326 about numbers of staff employed
and expenditure on SEN support services for gypsy/traveller children
between 2008 and 2018.

We have now considered your request and a copy of the information is
enclosed below.

The information supplied may be used for domestic or journalistic
purposes.  Its use for commercial gain including issuing to the public,
social media or computer blogs may be subject to the issue of a licence
under the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

a)    The amount of money the council has spent on specialist educational
support services for gypsy and traveller children for the years 2008, 2009
, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Response: We do not hold this information in the format requested. We do
not have a separate budget/spend for these services and they form part of
a wider spend.

b) The number of people employed or contracted by the council to provide
specialist educational support services for gypsy and traveller children
for the years 2008, 2009 , 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018.

Response: We do not have a specific role/someone employed/contracted by
the council to provide specialist educational support services for gypsy
and traveller children. This is incorporated into a wider role profile.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to: The Information Rights Manager, Information Rights
Team, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,
ST4 1HH, or email [1][Stoke on Trent City Council request email].

If, after contacting us, you are not content with the outcome, you may ask
the Information Commissioner for a decision.  Before doing this, please
see the following link for guidance from the Information Commissioner
relating to how to use your information rights responsibly and
effectively, to enable you to gain the best outcome from the process -
[2]http://ico.org.uk/for_the_public.

Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have already used our internal review procedure. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, tel: 0303 123
1113 or you can visit their website at [3]www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx.

You can find details of how we handle your personal information by
visiting [4]www.stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

Information Rights

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Floor 2  Civic Centre  Glebe Street  Stoke-on-Trent  ST4 1HH

T: 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

E: [5][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

Request
To whom it may concern,

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to
which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In order to
assist you with this request, I am outlining my enquiry as specifically as
possible. If however this request is too wide or unclear, I would be
grateful if you would contact me as I understand that under the Act, you
are required to advise and assist requesters.

I would like to know how much the council's focus on specialist
educational support services for gypsy and traveller children has changed
over the past 10 years.

As such, could the following information please be made available:

a) The amount of money the council has spent on specialist educational
support services for gypsy and traveller children for the years 2008, 2009
, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

b) The number of people employed or contracted by the council to provide
specialist educational support services for gypsy and traveller children
for the years 2008, 2009 , 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018.

I understand that under the Act, I should be entitled to a response within
20 working days. I would be grateful if you would confirm in writing that
you have received this request. 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Jasmin Gray

 
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housing repair and report a pothole at a time and place that’s convenient
for you at www.stoke.gov.uk 

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