Dear Mr Marshall

Thank you for your request for information held by the Council under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which was received
yesterday.

We will contact you again once it has been ascertained what data is held by
Birmingham City Council. In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if
that is the case, we will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to
you, and you will be required to pay before we will proceed to deal with
your request.

If you require any further information or are not happy with our response
please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the reference number above in
any future communications.

Yours sincerely
Steve Cullen
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

Data Protection Act 1998
The information you have provided within your Freedom of Information
request will be held on our database and may also be held within manual
records for a period of 2 years from the date Birmingham City Council
received your request. Any personal data that you provide to Birmingham
City Council will be held in line with the requirements set out within the
Data Protection Act 1998.

Re Use of Public Sector Information
Where Birmingham City Council is the copyright holder of any information
that may be released, re-use for personal, educational or non-commercial
purposes is permitted without further reference to the City Council. Where
the re-use is for other purposes, such as commercial re-use, the applicant
should notify the City Council in writing to seek approval or agree terms
for re-use.

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Dear Mr Marshall

Could you let me know a postal address to forward the documents you request
to you as I do not have electronic copies of the data you request. As soon
I as you let me know I will arrange to send it out.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Cullen
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

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Dear Mr Marshall

I have contacted the team who provided the information to me to see if any
further information is held and will respond in due course.

To the best of my knowledge the only names and email addresses contained in
the documents sent out were those for people operating in a business rather
than personal capacity and would therefore be considered business rather
than personal data. If there are personal rather than business details I
can only apologise as it is our policy to review all data prior to
disclosure and, from the context, I was not aware of any information
requiring redaction.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Cullen
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

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06/04/2009 12:44 Subject
Re: Freedom of Information request
- Freedom of Information request -
Elective Home Education Guidance
Notes

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thanks for this information. However you have sent me parents
responses to this consultation NOT the internal minutes of meetings
relating to the development of the HE guidelines. I wish to see
documents and minutes that show how the guidelines were developed,
particularly as so little notice seems to have been taken of
parents views in the info you sent me.

I must also express concern that the documents you sent contained
parents names, addresses and email addresses none of which had been
removed or covered up before sending them to me.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart G. Marshall

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Dear Mr Marshall

I have now received a response from the team who provided the data and they
have confirmed that we only have the information already shared on file.
There are no minutes of meetings.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Cullen
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

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Dear Mr Marshall

Further to your email to the Corporate Information Governance Team dated
28th April 2009 requesting an internal review on the information provided
to your for your Freedom of Information request requesting:

Please supply me with all documents and correspondence, both internal and
external, with respect to the newly published Birmingham Elective Home
Education guidance notes. Preferably electronic versions, but paper copies
will suffice if necessary.

We referred your request back to our Children, Young People & Families
directorate to ascertain whether any notes are available. We have received
confirmation from the directorate that Chris Seal concluded her employment
with Birmingham City Council in September 2008. It may have been that she
would have taken working notes in her conversations, and would have
retained these for her reference during her re-write. She did not discuss
this matter with anyone or pass on any notes. Staff in that section have
double checked that no other records are held in the file she left with us.

If however, you are not satisfied with the City Council’s response, you may
apply to the Information Commission for an independent review at the
following address:-

The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Tele No: 01625 545700

www.ico.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Corporate Information Governance Team

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