ICT Spend on Case Management Systems

Council of the Isles of Scilly did not have the information requested.

Dear Council of the Isles of Scilly,

Please can you provide the following information:
1. The software providers your Local Authority uses for:
• Your Education Management Information System (Local Authority use for admissions, LAC, SEND, Early Years etc.)
• The National Client Caseload Information System (NCCIS) returns to the Department for Education
• Managing the performance of the Youth Offending Team and the case management of individual young people
• Your Children’s Centre Management Information System

2. The amount paid to these suppliers annually for support and maintenance.

3. The contract renewal dates and notice period you are required to give for each.

4. The contract manager responsible for market engagement when the contracts end.

Yours faithfully,

Jayne Taylor

FOI (Isles of Scilly), Council of the Isles of Scilly

Dear requester,

We have noted your FOI request, but before we take it forward we want to confirm with you that you actually are aware of what and who we are, and how our data actually might not be of much value to you, and could even adversely affect your data-set.

We are the smallest unitary authority in England and Wales. We are a small group of islands 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall, with a population of around 2,400 people.

We do have the mechanisms of a unitary authority though, but obviously on a much smaller scale than other local authorities, and we even run additional services like an airport, and as of 1 April 2020 our water and sewerage provision changed when it came under the control of South West Water.

Here are some facts that may help with your enquiry:

We have no local authority-run schools here, only the Five Islands Academy
We have no kennels.
We have no zoos
We have three ‘A’ roads, in total 12 miles of roads
We have no high-rise buildings (max 4 stories)
We have no local authority bus service
We have no taxi licensing
We have no casinos
We have no nightclubs
We have no car parks from which we collect fees or charges
We have one local authority care home

If you are enquiring about public health funerals, please contact Cornwall Council FOI.

If you are enquiring about IT provision or phone contracts, please contact Cornwall Council FOI.

If you are enquiring about finance software, please contact Cornwall Council FOI

Our Council officers are busy and have small teams, and this also is true of the FOI department where we field enquiries every day, some of which are obviously national circulars to all local authorities, but sometimes our data is not of use to them due to our obviously unique situation, which they may not have been aware of at the time of sending their request.

As such, if you do wish to proceed with your FOI request, I ask that you reaffirm to us that this is the case. Simply respond to this email that you do intend to proceed. If we don't hear from you then we'll presume that you do not wish to proceed.

Also bear in mind that the Covid 19 pandemic is hugely affecting our ability to get FOIs completed on time, and that your request may take a lot longer than the statutory deadline. The ICO have issued the following statement in support of local authorities: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-an...

Much of the local authority is still operating from home currently, and our Council meetings have been taking place virtually. So far there have been no recorded cases of Covid 19 on the islands, though this can change at any time.

With best wishes, from the FOI team on the Isles of Scilly
(3 Aug 2020)

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