Stuart Graham
Cafcass National Office
3rd Floor
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21 Bloomsbury Street
London
WC1B 3HF
Your ref: CAF 15-123
Tel 0300 456 4000
Our ref: Gov/CAF 15-123
3 July 2015
Dear Mr Graham
Re: Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your email of 26 June 2015. You made the following requests for information:
RE: the
Cafcass Clinical Psychologist pilot
1. Please provide the names of the clinical psychologists
2. Please provide their CVs
3. Please provide, in each case, what additional training the clinicians have had
in parental alienation
Please see below for our response.
The clinical psychologists involved in this pilot scheme are qualified with a doctorate in
clinical psychology, and have extensive experience in the field of mental health
particularly in areas of safeguarding.
Cafcass is unable to provide you with personal information belonging to these clinical
psychologists. The information you have requested of names, CVs and individual
training is personal data relating professionals to whom Cafcass owes a duty of
confidence.
Disclosure is therefore exempt under Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act
2000. The exemption from the duty to disclose third party personal data where to do so
would breach a data protection principle is an absolute exemption.
Baroness Tyler of Enfield Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF | DX Cafcass 310101 Bloomsbury 11
Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act provides that:
1. Any information to which a request for information relates is exempt information if
it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject.
2. Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt
information if-
a. it constitutes personal data which do not fall within subsection (1), and
b. either the first or the second condition below is satisfied.
3. The first condition is-
a. in a case where the information falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of
the definition of "data" in section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998, that
the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than
under this Act would contravene-
(i) any of the data protection principles, or
(ii) section 10 of that Act (right to prevent processing likely to cause
damage or distress), and
b. in any other case, that the disclosure of the information to a member of the
public otherwise than under this Act would contravene any of the data
protection principles if the exemptions in section 33A(1) of the Data
Protection Act 1998 (which relate to manual data held by public authorities)
were disregarded.
We hope that you feel your question has been answered effectively. If you are unhappy with
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undertaken. If you are dissatisfied with the way the internal review is handled or with the
final decision made at that review about the information released, you are free to contact the
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(www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk):
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Fax
Information Commissioner's Office
01625 524 510
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Wilmslow,
0303 123 1113
Cheshire
E-mail
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Yours sincerely,
Baroness Tyler of Enfield Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF | DX Cafcass 310101 Bloomsbury 11
Governance Team
Cafcass
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Baroness Tyler of Enfield Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF | DX Cafcass 310101 Bloomsbury 11
