Education placement information
Dear Cumbria County Council,
Please can you provide me with the name of the current educational placement (school) of any young people, 16 years of age and under, with educational health care (ehc) plans or statements, placed in independent or non-maintained provision?
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like you to supply me with the information requested for the previous academic year - 2017/18.
I would ask you to provide the information in an excel document, broken down under the following headings:
Category of Need (SEMH, ASD, etc.)
Name of School
Type of placement - (Day or residential placement)
Cost of placement per year
I would be grateful if you could send your response in csv. or Excel format within the 20 day reply period.
Yours faithfully,
Lily Kerrigan
Dear Ms Kerrigan
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS 2004
REFERENCE: IG 01278
Thank you for your request for information regarding educational
placements, which was received on 23 January 2019
The council aims to provide you with the information within the statutory
timescale of 20 working days in this case the date is 20 February 2019.
Subject to the information not being exempt or containing any references
to third parties.
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Dear Cumbria County Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Cumbria County Council's handling of my FOI request 'Education placement information'.
The deadline for you to respond to my request has lapsed, so can you please respond with the required information as a matter of urgency.
Yours faithfully,
Lily Kerrigan
Dear Ms Kerrigan
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
INTERNAL REVIEW ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
REFERENCE: IG 01278
Thank you for your email received 28 February 2019. This follows our
failure to disclosure on time the information you requested about school
placements.
As you are dissatisfied with the way your request has been handled your
request will now be considered through the Council’s internal review
process. The internal review will be carried out by Steve Tweedie,
Information Governance & Risk Manager.
The internal review stage is an opportunity to consider the way your
request was handled by the council, in the light of all the relevant
information.
Following the internal review the Council aims to respond within 20
working days, in this case by 28 March 2019. If for any reason we are
unable to meet that timeframe we will let you know.
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right to appeal to the Information Commissioner (contact details provided
below):
First Contact Team
Information Commissioners Office
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Dear Ms Kerrigan
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 / ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS
2004
REFERENCE: IG 01278
Please see attached for a response to your request for information.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your
request, this was due to the nature of your request and the time taken to
consider what we could disclose in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act and the General Data Protection Regulations.
Yours sincerely
Anita
Anita Timperon
Information Governance Team
Corporate, Customer and Community Services • Cumbria County Council
Cumbria House • 117 Botchergate • Carlisle • CA1 1RD
E: [1][Cumbria County Council request email]
T: 01228 221234
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