Freedom of Information Request - initial age assessment asylum-seekers

Sabrina made this Freedom of Information request to West Dunbartonshire Council as part of a batch sent to 32 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Sabrina
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To whom it may concern,

Under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I would like to request the following information:

1. Please confirm the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that were accommodated by your local authority whose ages were accepted without further enquiries, excluding National Transfer Scheme (NTS) cases, in the following periods: January 2020-January 2021, January 2021- January 2022, January 2022-present;
2. Please confirm the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children that were accommodated by your local authority pending a full age assessment, excluding NTS cases, in the following periods: January 2020-January 2021, January 2021- January 2022, January 2022-present;
3. Please confirm the number of young asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 who were referred to your local authority and were found to be clearly and obviously over the age of 18 and denied support following initial inquiries in the following periods: January 2020-January 2021, January 2021- January 2022, January 2022-present. Please confirm, in how many of these cases, your local authority decided to accommodate the young people following legal challenges and/or reconsideration requests in respect of the initial inquiries.

I would like you to provide this information in the following format: email.

If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
If any of this information is already in the public domain, it would be helpful if you could direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

Please do not hesitate to contact me at [email address] should any aspect of my request require clarification.

Kind Regards,
Sabrina Galella

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Bethany McKee, West Dunbartonshire Council

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This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for information which was
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12/01/2023.                            
 
I have passed it to the relevant department to consider and respond.
 
West Dunbartonshire Council will respond within 20 working days of
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09/02/2023.
 
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WDHSCP, West Dunbartonshire Council

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Dear Sabrina Galella

 

Please find attached response to your FOI Request.  Apologies for the
delay in sending this response.

 

Kind Regards

 

Lisa

 

Lisa McRae

Policy Assistant

WDHSCP –Strategy and Transformation

 

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Dunbartonshire Council will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or
consequential damages arising from alteration of the contents of this
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not have any contractually binding effect on West Dunbartonshire Council
or its clients and any writings which are or could form the basis of any
agreement are subject to contract.

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