Identifying Coached or Psychologically Coerced Children
Dear Orkney Islands Council,
Per the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, please supply me with all information contained in your records:
Please advise your policy, procedures and training programme for Social Work staff dealing with and identifying ‘Coached or psychologically coerced children?’
Please provide your policy and procedures which explains types and examples of diagnostic criteria and/or indicators & signs of a child being coached and/or psychologically coerced?
Please advise your policy and procedures that explains appropriate methods of working with including but not limited to consideration and intervention of a child who may present as being subject to having been coached by psychological coercive control that is given when working with coached and/psychologically coerced children?”
Please acknowledge receipt and I shall look forward to your full and frank disclosure within 20 working days
Yours faithfully,
[name removed]
[name removed]
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Dear Madam
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information
Thank you for your information request dated 3 March 2023 and received on 6 March 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0312. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
We are considering your request. We may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.
The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we need to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date if possible.
Regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210
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Dear Madam
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information
I refer to your email dated 3 March 2023 and received on 6 March 2023, our reference is FOI 2023-0312.
I am pleased to give the information you requested and hope that it meets your requirements.
The Children and Families Social Work team does not have a separate procedure, policy, or training in Coached or Psychologically Coerced Children. However, we include the SW Child Protection Procedures which covers various matters such as seeing the child, the views of the child, and many other matters.
Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email]. Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:
That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.
We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.
Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.
Regards
Paul Kesterton
Information Governance Officer
Strategy, Performance & Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2241
www.orkney.gov.uk
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