Formal process of having domestic abuse, by coercion of children and third parties being acted upon as legitimate criminality against a minor also

The request was refused by Stirling Council.

Dear Stirling Council,

Social Work will be aware that complex family breakdowns can lead to children being separated from one of their parents, whilst that separated parent still has obligations and a duty of care to their child under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995.

Social work could imagine a situation where a non-primary caregiving parent is separated by their child by a process of hearsay evidence being accumulated by a local authority social work department system. Such population of social work systems could have occurred through the actions of an Inter-Agency Discussion (a so called IRD) which is a non-statutory ) meeting between Police Scotland, the local authority Social Work Department and potentially other agencies. Social work systems could also be populated with false information coming from the Police Scotland interim Vulnerable Persons Database (iVPD) and other voluntary organisations.

A non-primary caregiving parent may have significant and severe child protection concerns pertaining to their child and the actions and conduct of the now primary care giving parent.

Social Work could imagine that the non-primary caregiving parent could have significant evidence associated with sexual impropriety of the now primary care giving parent during the course of their employment.

Earlier issues with a child reported on social work systems may suggest that a child was being coercively controlled by the now caregiving parent and there may be concerns around sexual abuse, due to allegations of the child acting out sexual conduct on another child, which was investigated by the police and although no disclosure was made, the investigating officer was convinced beyond doubt that the child had experienced sexual abuse from the now primary caregiving parent.

The non-primary caregiving parent may believe that aspects of coercion mechanisms described in the Biderman Chart are being employed and that their child is manifesting “acting out" behaviours as a reaction to the conduct of the primary care giving parent, and elements of Stockholm Syndrome have been witnessed and there is corroboration of such, and the abuse may still be being perpetuated.

Under FOISA 2002 please provide me with the information contained in your records as follows:

What is the formal process whereby a non-primary caregiving parents enacts their obligations under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 to make a referral to the Child & Adolescent Mental Service of NHS Scotland For their child/children, whilst the background given above explains that multi agency gate keeping is in place by the use of inaccurate, false and libellous data iVPD/VPD based on malicious falsehoods and hearsay without any evidence, which is in free flow transmission through every agency, and the urgency of the situation being the paramount wellbeing of the child is not being given any cognisance nor is the evidential reports by the now non care giving parent, who is in effect 'STATE alienated' by the Scottish Government and her funded partner agencies including Third Sector Organisations and NGO's?

Yours faithfully,

R Deans

FOI, Stirling Council

Dear R Deans,

 

Your request for information has been logged and allocated reference
FOI/14592

 

Your request will be dealt with under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), and if determined appropriate to do so during
the course of your request, also the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations, 2004 (EIRs).

 

Your request will be forwarded to the service area(s) holding the
information. Please note, the service area(s) holding the information may
need further information from you to locate the information sought once
they have received the request, and you will be contacted again should
this be necessary.

 

Unless clarification is required your request will be answered promptly,
and within twenty working days of the date your request was received – in
this case no later than 7 Dec 20.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Craig Davidson

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Stirling Council

Stirling FK8 2ET

01786 233988

[1][Stirling Council request email]

 

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FOI, Stirling Council

Dear R Deans,

 

Section 8(1)(b) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA),
sets out what a request must include to be valid and is clear that the
request must state the name of the applicant for the request to be valid. 
However, even where a name has been provided, we may still ask requesters
to provide proof of ID to ensure that they are not using a pseudonym, and
that your request is valid. 

 

We would therefore request that you provide us with ID so that we can
confirm that the name you provided is your actual name. The ID provided
should be an official document that contains your full name, for example,
a current UK driving licence, passport or official letter issued by a
Government department, such as the DWP etc.   

 

In line with Section 60 of the Scottish Ministers’ Code of Practice on the
discharge of functions by Scottish public authorities under FOISA,  we
advise that where a requester has not given a “sufficient name” or where
we are satisfied that an applicant has used a pseudonym, the request will
not be valid and the request will not be progressed. We also advise, that
the Scottish Information Commissioner will not be able to accept any
appeal arising from a request if a pseudonym has been used by the
requester.

 

However, we also advise that where a requester provides evidence that
their own name was used in a request, we will then be able to process and
respond to your request in accordance with FOISA, and within the original
timeframe provided.

 

So that we are able to clarify this matter, I would ask that you provide
proof of ID in the name you have provided in your request, or if you used
a pseudonym to request information, that you re-submit  your request,
using your real name.

 

The Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office has set out guidance in
relation to the validity of requests made under FOISA which can be found
at this link:
[1]https://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Law/...

 

Kind Regards

Fiona McCallum

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Stirling Council

[2][Stirling Council request email]

 

 

 

From: FOI
Sent: 09 November 2020 09:37
To: R Deans <[FOI #704206 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Formal process of having
domestic abuse, by coercion of children and third parties being acted upon
as legitimate criminality against a minor also- FOI/14592

 

Dear R Deans,

 

Your request for information has been logged and allocated reference
FOI/14592

 

Your request will be dealt with under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), and if determined appropriate to do so during
the course of your request, also the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations, 2004 (EIRs).

 

Your request will be forwarded to the service area(s) holding the
information. Please note, the service area(s) holding the information may
need further information from you to locate the information sought once
they have received the request, and you will be contacted again should
this be necessary.

 

Unless clarification is required your request will be answered promptly,
and within twenty working days of the date your request was received – in
this case no later than 7 Dec 20.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Craig Davidson

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Stirling Council

Stirling FK8 2ET

01786 233988

[3][Stirling Council request email]

 

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Dear FOI,

my name

Yours sincerely,

Ms R Deans

Dear FOI,

Under FOISA 2002 please provide me with the information contained in your records as follows:

What is the formal process whereby a non-primary caregiving parents enacts their obligations under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 to make a referral to the Child & Adolescent Mental Service of NHS Scotland For their child/children, whilst the background given above explains that multi agency gate keeping is in place by the use of inaccurate, false and libellous data iVPD/VPD based on malicious falsehoods and hearsay without any evidence, which is in free flow transmission through every agency, and the urgency of the situation being the paramount wellbeing of the child is not being given any cognisance nor is the evidential reports by the now non care giving parent, who is in effect 'STATE alienated' by the Scottish Government and her funded partner agencies including Third Sector Organisations and NGO's?

Yours sincerely,

R Deans

FOI, Stirling Council

Dear R Deans,

This request has been previously logged as FOI/14592, I would ask that you provide proof of ID in the name you have provided in your request before we can progress this request.

As stated previously, Section 8(1)(b) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), sets out what a request must include to be valid and is clear that the request must state the name of the applicant for the request to be valid. However, even where a name has been provided, we may still ask requesters to provide proof of ID to ensure that they are not using a pseudonym, and that your request is valid.

We would therefore request that you provide us with ID so that we can confirm that the name you provided is your actual name. The ID provided should be an official document that contains your full name, for example, a current UK driving licence, passport or official letter issued by a Government department, such as the DWP etc.

In line with Section 60 of the Scottish Ministers’ Code of Practice on the discharge of functions by Scottish public authorities under FOISA, we advise that where a requester has not given a “sufficient name” or where we are satisfied that an applicant has used a pseudonym, the request will not be valid and the request will not be progressed. We also advise, that the Scottish Information Commissioner will not be able to accept any appeal arising from a request if a pseudonym has been used by the requester.

However, we also advise that where a requester provides evidence that their own name was used in a request, we will then be able to process and respond to your request in accordance with FOISA, and within the original timeframe provided.

So that we are able to clarify this matter, I would ask that you provide proof of ID in the name you have provided in your request, or if you used a pseudonym to request information, that you re-submit your request, using your real name.

The Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office has set out guidance in relation to the validity of requests made under FOISA which can be found at this link: https://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Law/...

Kind Regards

Records & Information Governance Team
Stirling Council
[Stirling Council request email]

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FOI, Stirling Council

Dear R Deans

 

We wrote to you asking if you could provide some further details to help
us identify the information you were interested in relating to your
request logged as FOI/14592-  see below. To date we have not received a
response from you.

 

In accordance with the Section 60 Code of Practice on the Functions of
Public authorities under FOI legislation, requests can be closed if no
clarification is received from the applicant within 40 days.  As more than
40 working days have elapsed since requesting clarification, we have
assumed that you are no longer seeking the information you have requested
and have closed your enquiry.

 

Kind regards

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Communites & People

Stirling Council

Stirling FK8 2ET

01786 233990

[1][email address]

 

 

From: FOI
Sent: 10 November 2020 14:22
To: 'R Deans' <[FOI #704206 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Formal process of having
domestic abuse, by coercion of children and third parties being acted upon
as legitimate criminality against a minor also- FOI/14592

 

Dear R Deans,

 

Section 8(1)(b) of Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA),
sets out what a request must include to be valid and is clear that the
request must state the name of the applicant for the request to be valid. 
However, even where a name has been provided, we may still ask requesters
to provide proof of ID to ensure that they are not using a pseudonym, and
that your request is valid. 

 

We would therefore request that you provide us with ID so that we can
confirm that the name you provided is your actual name. The ID provided
should be an official document that contains your full name, for example,
a current UK driving licence, passport or official letter issued by a
Government department, such as the DWP etc.   

 

In line with Section 60 of the Scottish Ministers’ Code of Practice on the
discharge of functions by Scottish public authorities under FOISA,  we
advise that where a requester has not given a “sufficient name” or where
we are satisfied that an applicant has used a pseudonym, the request will
not be valid and the request will not be progressed. We also advise, that
the Scottish Information Commissioner will not be able to accept any
appeal arising from a request if a pseudonym has been used by the
requester.

 

However, we also advise that where a requester provides evidence that
their own name was used in a request, we will then be able to process and
respond to your request in accordance with FOISA, and within the original
timeframe provided.

 

So that we are able to clarify this matter, I would ask that you provide
proof of ID in the name you have provided in your request, or if you used
a pseudonym to request information, that you re-submit  your request,
using your real name.

 

The Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office has set out guidance in
relation to the validity of requests made under FOISA which can be found
at this link:
[2]https://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Law/...

 

Kind Regards

Fiona McCallum

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Stirling Council

[3][Stirling Council request email]

 

 

 

From: FOI
Sent: 09 November 2020 09:37
To: R Deans <[4][FOI #704206 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Formal process of having
domestic abuse, by coercion of children and third parties being acted upon
as legitimate criminality against a minor also- FOI/14592

 

Dear R Deans,

 

Your request for information has been logged and allocated reference
FOI/14592

 

Your request will be dealt with under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), and if determined appropriate to do so during
the course of your request, also the Environmental Information (Scotland)
Regulations, 2004 (EIRs).

 

Your request will be forwarded to the service area(s) holding the
information. Please note, the service area(s) holding the information may
need further information from you to locate the information sought once
they have received the request, and you will be contacted again should
this be necessary.

 

Unless clarification is required your request will be answered promptly,
and within twenty working days of the date your request was received – in
this case no later than 7 Dec 20.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Craig Davidson

 

Records & Information Governance Team

Stirling Council

Stirling FK8 2ET

01786 233988

[5][Stirling Council request email]

 

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