Dear Sam Andrews We acknowledge receipt of your recent request for
information held by the School: Freedom of Information request - Prevent
policies and referrals Your request will be considered and you will
receive our response within the statutory timescale of 20 working school
days. The reference number for your request is FOI/40. Should you have any
further inquiries concerning this matter, please reply to this email
leaving the subject line unchanged. Yours sincerely, School Data
Protection Officer

Dear Sam Andrews

Request FOI/40

Further to your request received on 13/10/2019, I confirm that Bow
Secondary School has now considered your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Outlined below is the response to the 6 questions
that you raised:

1. A copy of your prevent policy - this is incorporated into the Bow
School Safeguarding & Child Protection Policy which can be found on the
Bow School website under policies. 

2. Data on referrals, including: the number of referrals, by year; age;
sex; and reason; and whether that referral was passed from your school
safeguarding officer (or equivalent) to the local Prevent officer (or
equivalent) OR your own dataset on this matter, preferably in excel format
- there have been no referrals made. 

3. Any data on training undertaken by staff for Prevent - all staff
including teaching and support staff received training in June 2019. 

4. Any Prevent related projects undertaken by staff or students for
Prevent - no explicit projects - have been offered as part of our PSHE
drop day and extra curricular offer.

5. Any minutes of meetings regarding the implementation of Prevent at your
school - no school specific minutes, meetings regarding this are chaired
by the borough and delivered at the DSL Forum half termly. 

 6. Any correspondence regarding complaints about Prevent - no complaints
about Prevent. 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purpose of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.

The School publishes responses on its online Disclosure Log. Only requests
deemed to be in the public interest will be included and any request
included within this log will be de-personalised accordingly.

If you have any queries about this email please do not hesitate to contact
me directly, quoting the reference number listed at the top of this letter
in all communications.

If you are unhappy with the School’s response to your request and wish to
make a complaint please email [email address], quoting the reference
number above.

If your complaint is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.

Information Commissioner
Helpline: 0303 123 1113
Wycliffe House 01625 545 745
 
Water Lane [1][email address]
Email:
Wilmslow [2]www.ico.org.uk
Website:
Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours 

Sam Cook

School Business Leader

Bow Secondary School

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