Informal Childcare

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Dear South Staffordshire District Council,

Seeking information on informal childcare

Freedom of Information Act request

Please could you supply the following information? It is fine to send it by email.
The information should be held by your children’s services and social care departments.

1. What support does your local authority offer to grandparents providing informal childcare for their grandchildren?

INFORMAL CHILDCARING
• Please provide key contact and addresses of services
• Please give information on any outreach or specially designed material for informal childcaring grandparents
• Please give information on the number of queries you have from informal childcaring grandparents seeking support or information

Please send to:
Vaughan Perks
Volunteer Researcher
The Grandparents’ Association

The Stow
The Moot
Harlow
Essex
CM203AG
01279 428040

[email address]

External Email for Freedom Of Information, South Staffordshire District Council

Dear Vaughan

Thank you for your FOIA request, unfortunately we do not hold the information you have requested as Childrens Services and Social Care and Health are all County Council services. You will need to refer your request to Staffordshire County Council, you can do this by emailing them at: [email address]

If you are dissatisfied with the way we have handled your request, you may request a review of our decision or make a complaint by writing to: the Chief Executive, Steve Winterflood, South Staffordshire Council, Council Offices, Wolverhampton Rd, Codsall, South Staffordshire, WV8 1PX. A copy of our complaints procedure is available on our website at www.sstaffs.gov.uk.

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may refer the matter to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please be aware that the Commissioner will be unlikely to make a decision until you have been through our internal complaints procedure first. You can write to the Commissioner at:

FOI/EIR Complaints Resolution
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

or use the online complaints form published by the Commissioner which is available at www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx

Kind Regards

Policy and Partnership Services
South Staffordshire Council

Tel: 01902 696238

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