Number of children used as CHIS by the council

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Dear Hull City Council,

Please could you provide the following information:

1 - The number of children currently used by the council as juvenile Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS)
2 - How many of those children are care-experienced (in the care system now or in the past)
3 - The age of each of the children
4 - The ethnic background of each of the children
5 - How long each child has been working as a CHIS
6 - How much each child is paid/ how each child is compensated for working as a CHIS
7 - Reason/s for the child agreeing to work as a CHIS

Yours faithfully,

Natasha Phillips
Researching Reform

Information Governance, Hull City Council

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Hull City Council
The Guildhall

 

Ferguson Jodie, Hull City Council

 

 

Dear Ms Phillips,

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request - 000060/19

 

We acknowledge receipt of your information request received on 08/01/2019
which is being processed according to the Freedom of Information Act
(2000)

 

The legislation allows us 20 working days to respond which takes us to
05/02/2019.  There are some circumstances under which this deadline may be
extended legally but we will inform you as soon as we know if these apply.

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Questions

 

1 - The number of children currently used by the council as juvenile
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS)

2 - How many of those children are care-experienced (in the care system
now or in the past)

3 - The age of each of the children

4 - The ethnic background of each of the children

5 - How long each child has been working as a CHIS

6 - How much each child is paid/ how each child is compensated for working
as a CHIS

7 - Reason/s for the child agreeing to work as a CHIS

 

 

 

 

If you wish to speak to anybody in respect of your request then please
contact the Information Governance Team on 01482 300300 or e-mail
[1][email address]

 

Should you wish to complain about our response in any way this must
initially be done by e-mailing [2][Hull City Council request email] or by
contacting us at The Information Governance Team, The Guildhall, Alfred
Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA.

 

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you
may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation.

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire,

SK9 5AF

 

Web site: [3]https://ico.org.uk

Report a concern: [4]https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

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Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

 

Information Governance Officer

Town Clerk's Service

Hull City Council

Tel: 01482 300300

 

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Barkworth Jane, Hull City Council

 

Dear Ms Phillips

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Information Request - 000060/19

 

With regard to your Freedom of Information request received on 08/01/2019,
please find our response below. 

 

1 - The number of children currently used by the council as juvenile
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS)

 

Zero.

 

2 - How many of those children are care-experienced (in the care system
now or in the past)

3 - The age of each of the children

4 - The ethnic background of each of the children

5 - How long each child has been working as a CHIS

6 - How much each child is paid/ how each child is compensated for working
as a CHIS

7 - Reason/s for the child agreeing to work as a CHIS

 

The answer to all of the above is not applicable.

 

 

We hope that you will be satisfied with our response and should you
require any further information then please do not hesitate to contact
us. 

 

Should you wish to complain about our response in any way this must
initially be done by e-mailing [1][Hull City Council request email] or by
contacting us at The Information Governance Team, The Guildhall, Alfred
Gelder Street, Hull, HU1 2AA.

 

If you are not satisfied with the outcome of the internal review then you
may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the
government body established to enforce the legislation.

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire,

SK9 5AF

 

Web site: [2]https://ico.org.uk

Report a concern: [3]https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Email: [4][email address]

Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)

 

ICO states that any emails you choose to send to them, or that they send
to you, are not secure as email messages can be intercepted.

ICO asks that you include a contact telephone number on any emails you
send to them. 

 

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Act does not give you an automatic right to re-use this information in a
way that would infringe copyright, for example, by publishing it or
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including any non-commercial research or private study or for the purposes
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If you wish to re-use this information and this was not specified in your
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most cases we will permit use and re-use in accordance with The Open
Government Licence which can be found at
[5]www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Jane Barkworth

Information Governance Officer

Town Clerk's Service

Hull City Council

Tel: 01482 300300

 

 

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