Dear Mr Scully,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 17 May 2013.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which shows the area covered:
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pages/explo...<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Page...>.
The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk>.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Town Clerk’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1209
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk<http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk>

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Dear Mr Scully

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on the 17^th May 2013
and our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL)
responds as follows.

I would like from you a list of all the managers from Team Manager,
Service Manager and Heads of Service for both Children and Young people
social services AND Adult Social Services.

This should include Disabilities, Substance Misuse and Youth Offending
Teams as well as the rest.

I would like a management structure of the above with the names of all
managers and job titles.

Please see below the Senior Management Structure for our Social Care team
- known as the People Division.

This response acts as a part refusal notice in accordance with section 17
of the FOIA. Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a very
small resident population of only about 7,400 people and the CoL therefore
has a small Social Care team and we can confirm that this response covers
all COL Social Care teams.  We consider that, in accordance with the FOIA
section 40(2) exemption ('personal information'), we should refuse the
information you have requested for details of staff below higher
management level (while, in accordance with the Act, we confirm that we do
of course hold the information).

The CoL applies the FOIA s40(2) exemption ('personal information'),
because it considers that a breach of the data protection principles under
the DPA would occur through disclosure of staff names and contact details
below higher management level where these are not already routinely in the
public domain.

In this instance, we consider that Principle 1 would be breached by
disclosure, ie the principle of fair and lawful processing. We consider
that the names of staff are personal information. The Information Tribunal
has also upheld the view that "to release the name of an individual’s
employer would be to release significant personal data" (Appeal Number
EA/2007/0058). For a public authority to release names of staff would
clearly be to disclose the employer of those staff. In view of the
Tribunal's statement, we have to consider whether disclosure would
constitute a breach of the Data Protection Principles under the Data
Protection Act 1998 (DPA). In this instance, we consider that Principle 1
would be breached by disclosure, ie the Principle of Fair and Lawful
Processing. There is no general expectation by staff, other than those
higher managers whose names are already normally in the public domain in
connection with the authority, that the name of their employer should
automatically be disclosed through release of their names following FOI
requests.

Under the FOIA the section 40(2) exemption is an absolute exemption, ie it
is not subject to the public interest test.

We nevertheless hope that this response is of assistance.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[1][email address]

For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545 700. Website: [3]www.ico.org.uk.

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority.

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reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely

Business Service Officer
Department of Community and Children's Services
[4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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