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Dear Midhurst Rother College,

I write to you in accordance with the FOI Act to request the information set out below. It is against the law to fail to provide a response, unless you are exempt for the reasons specified by this legislation. The law states that you must provide a response within 20 working days, to which I expect a valid response by the latest of Friday 27th July 2018. Should you fail to respond within this time-frame, I will make an official complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.

I request the following information;

1) The number of pupils that have been searched between September 2014 and July 2018;
1a) And how many of these searches have resulted in finding a prohibited item.

2) The number of students who have been temporarily excluded between September 2014 and July 2018.

If you store only part of the information I have requested, this is not an issue. Please provide as much of my request as possible and I am willing to accept parts of the information should it be unavailable.

Please write to me to confirm you have received this request, and to reiterate, the deadline for a response will be on Friday 27th July 2018 at the latest.

Yours faithfully,

J. Neal

FOI ULT,

Good Morning

We confirm receipt of your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to Midhurst Rother College (MRC). MRC is a United Learning Trust school and we respond to requests under FOIA on their behalf. We will endeavour to answer your request as soon as possible but please note that for Academy Schools a working day is defined as a day when the pupils are in school. Therefore our deadline for responding to you is 11 September 2018.

Kind Regards

The FOIA Team

United Learning
Worldwide House
Thorpe Wood
PE3 6SB

www.unitedlearning.org.uk

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FOI ULT,

Good Morning

Further to my email below, the information that you have requested will take us more than 18 hours to locate. Records of this nature are kept on the individual pupil files so we would have to review every pupil file for the four years to answer your questions. Therefore, the cost of answering your request will exceed the appropriate threshold set out in section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act.

We do hold information about exclusions electronically. Please could you clarify whether you are asking about exclusions specifically related to possession of a prohibited item or if you are enquiring about the total number of exclusions (for any reason) over the four years?

Kind Regards

The FOIA Team

United Learning
Worldwide House
Thorpe Wood
PE3 6SB

www.unitedlearning.org.uk

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Dear FOI ULT,

Thank you for your response. I understand that the 18 hour timeframe is not realistic for my request.

I was requesting information in regards to the number of exclusions you have executed by year between 2014-2018

Yours sincerely,

J. Neal

FOI ULT,

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Kind Regards

 

The FOIA Team

 

United Learning

Worldwide House

Thorpe Wood

PE3 6SB

 

[1]www.unitedlearning.org.uk

 

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