Dear Mr Smith,

Request for Information RFI-7002-23 Re: Early Years & Maintained Nursery
Schools

Thank you for your request for information relating to Early Years &
Maintained Nursery Schools which was received on 28 July 2023.

In accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
the council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges. 

If, for any reason, we cannot provide you with the information, we will
tell you why.

If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you again.

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely,

Naiyar Sultana

Assistant Assurance Officer

Walsall Council 

0800 0856018

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Dear Mr Smith,

Request for Information RFI-7002-23 Re:Early Years & Maintained Nursery
Schools

I write to acknowledge and apologise for the delay in responding to your
request relating to Early Years & Maintained Nursery Schools. As you know,
the council is required to respond to all requests for information under
the Freedom of Information Act within 20 working days, unless a ‘qualified
exception’ applies that requires the consideration of the Public Interest.

Walsall Council takes its obligations under this legislation extremely
seriously and I am sorry that in this case we may not meet this timescale.

I would like to take this opportunity to assure you of our best
intentions in this regard. I can confirm that a full reply to your request
will be sent to you as soon as is possible

If you have any queries in regard to this process, please do not hesitate
to contact us.

Yours sincerely,

Yvonne Jackson

Assurance Officer

Walsall Council 

0800 0856018

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Dear Mr Smith,

Freedom of Information Request RFI-7002-23 Re: Early Years & Maintained
Nursery Schools

Further to your request for information about Early Years & Maintained
Nursery Schools, I can tell you the following:

If your authority does not have manage maintained nursery schools, please
disregard the whole request. 

1.     Provide a list of a head of department contact who manages 'Early
Years', the list should include their name and email address. 

We do not have a Head of Early Years. We have lead officers for differing
areas e.g. Quality – Nicola Hart – [1][email address] or
Sufficiency – Alex Groom – [2][email address] 

2.     Provide a list of 'Maintained Nursery Schools' operating with a
deficit. 

None

 3.     If any 'Maintained Nursery Schools' have been discussed of
possible closure, or ear marked for closure, please list them. 

None

 Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of
Information Act 2000 requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In
most cases the copyright will be owned by Walsall Council. The copyright
in respect of other information may be owned by another person or
organisation, as indicated. 

You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a
limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting.
 However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, will
require the permission of the copyright owner.

I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you should set out in writing your grounds for complaint and
send to: Corporate Assurance Manager, Resources & Transformation, Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1TP.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a decision.
Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF. [3]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely,

Yvonne Jackson

Assurance Officer

Walsall Council 

0800 0856018

[4]www.walsall.gov.uk 

[5]Walsall Council, Proud of our past, our present and for our future 

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