Dear Michael Carroll-Owen

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL), sometimes also called the City of London
Corporation, acknowledges receipt of your two identical requests for
information of 30 January 2022.

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places
under two different names –

[1]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...

[2]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...

- where your identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact one legal
entity. Its full, official name is ‘The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London’. We have informed the WDTK website that it is
maintaining two sections for one body, and that it would be less confusing
for applicants if the site referred to the CoL under one name instead of
maintaining two lists and two names for the same legal entity, but it has
declined to make the change. For further clarification of the position of
the CoL under the FOIA, please see Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA,
which describes the CoL as being subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The
Common Council of the City of London, in respect of information held in
its capacity as a local authority, police authority or port health
authority').

Please note you will receive one response in relation to the above
requests.

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 page containing a link to a map (City of
London - Interactive Mapping), which shows the local authority area
covered by the CoL:

[3]https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority
functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information
please see: [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitors Department

Tel: 020 7332 1243

Email: [5][email address]

[6]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Michael Carroll-Owen

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 31 January 2022 and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

Between the dates of 1st Jan 2021 and 30th of Jan 2022 how many
safeguarding referrals* have been received from the following
organisations "Department for Work & Pensions", "Centre for Health &
Disability Assessments also known as Maximus", "ATOS also known as
Independent Assessment Services" and "Capita"? None.

*Adult Safeguarding Referrals only

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 10,938* which includes approximately 2,040 children aged up to 19
years old.

*Office of National Statistics June 2021

We hope that this response is of assistance.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed 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 FOI 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) 545700.  Website: [3]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

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give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely

Business Support Manager |  Community and Children’s Services

Commissioning and Partnerships Division | City of London Corporation

[mobile number]  | [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk 

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viruses is excluded. Please note that in so far as the City of London
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Environmental Information Regulations 2004, it may need to disclose this
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