Dear Lily Kerrigan,

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

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for
information of 22 November 2019.

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 (‘Explore
the City’), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:

[1]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority
functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information
please see: [2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1243

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Dear Lily Kerrigan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 25 November 2019 and
our acknowledgement of 26 November 2019, the City of London (CoL) responds
as follows:

Please can you provide me with the name of the current educational
placement (school) of any young people, 16 years of age and under, with
educational health care (ehc) plans or statements, placed in independent
or non-maintained provision?  There are no CoL young people aged 16 or
under with an EHC plan in independent or non-maintained provision.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like you to supply me
with the information requested for the previous academic year - 2018/19.

I would ask you to provide the information in an excel document, broken
down under the following headings:

Category of Need (SEMH, ASD, etc.)      

Name of School      

Type of placement - (Day or residential placement)     

Cost of placement per year

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,706* which includes approximately 1,580 children aged up to 19
years old.

*Office of National Statistics 2019

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 use the following link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure : [1]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: [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring
the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside the scope
of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.

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Yours sincerely,

Business Support Manager |  Commissioning and Partnerships Division 

City of London Corporation |Telephone 020 7332 3498|
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Dear Lily Kerrigan

Our response below did include an answer to your request, I have copied
our response below.

There are no CoL young people aged 16 or  under with an EHC plan in
independent or non-maintained provision.

Regards

Business Support Manager |  Commissioning and Partnerships Division 

City of London Corporation |Telephone 020 7332 3498|
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Dear Lily Kerrigan

We have nothing further to add to our previous 2 responses.  We believe
the responses provided answers the request you made.

Please contact me by telephone if you seek further clarification.

No further responses will be made on your request wef 25 November 2019

Regards

Business Support Manager |  Commissioning and Partnerships Division 

City of London Corporation |Telephone 020 7332 3498|
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

From: Lily Kerrigan

Sent: 20 January 2020 09:57:13 (UTC+00:00) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon,
London

To: DCS FOI

Subject: RE: FOI RFI WEF 25 November 2019 Kerrigan Response

Dear DCS FOI,

Sorry the information provided is not very clear.

Yours sincerely,

Lily Kerrigan

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Dear Lily Kerrigan,

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

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 22 January 2020.

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 ('Explore the City'), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....

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

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor's Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Lily Kerrigan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 22 January 2020 and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with
details of the independent specialist SEN schools that you placed young
people 16 years of age and under within for the previous academic year
(2018/19). 

I do not require any information other than the name of the schools.

No placements were made at independent specialist SEN schools in 2018/19.

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,706* which includes approximately 1,580 children aged up to 19
years old.  The CoL only maintains one school in its capacity as a Local
Education Authority, namely the Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School,
a voluntary aided school. Please see the following link providing further
details, including contact details:
[1]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/...

*Office of National Statistics 2019

We hope this assists.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[2][email address]

For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's
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) 545 700. Website: [4]www.ico.org.uk.

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority.

Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring the CoL to disclose
information, release of information outside the scope of the Act is
subject to the discretion of the CoL.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
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

Executive Support Assistant - Business Unit Team

Community & Children’s Services

Department of Community & Children’s Services | ( 020 7606 3030 |

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Dear Lily Kerrigan,

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your complaint of 26 June 2020, as set out below.

In accordance with guidance published by the Information Commissioner’s Office, the CoL aims to respond to complaints within 20 working days beginning from the first working day following receipt of the complaint.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Lily Kerrigan,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - Complaint

Following your complaint of 26 June 2020, and our acknowledgement of the same date, regarding our FOIA response of 13 February 2020 to your request of 22 January 2020, please find our independent assessment of your complaint, compiled from the information made available to us, as follows.

Please note that your FOIA response complaint, made via ‘What do they know’ (WDTK), was received over 80 working days after your response was supplied, and as such there is no official requirement for the City of London Corporation (CoL) to respond to your complaint request after a period of 40 working days have elapsed following the formal FOIA response made to you.

Your request of 22 January asked for the following information ‘please can you provide me with details of the independent specialist SEN schools that you placed young people 16 years of age and under within for the previous academic year (2018/19).

I do not require any information other than the name of the schools.’

The CoL replied to your request on 13 February 2020, our response was NIL as we had not placed any young persons with ‘independent specialist SEN schools’. The CoL response text stated ‘No placements were made at independent specialist SEN schools in 2018/19.

As the CoL had not made any placements to schools of the type stated in your request, no school names were available to be disclosed, and this was the only information that you requested.

In conclusion the CoL does uphold your complaint concerning the content of the response that was supplied to you on the 13 February 2020, as there was no information that could be provided to you at the time of our response.

We hope this independent assessment of your complaint regarding your response has been helpful. However, if you have any queries or concerns, please contact us.

If you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information Commissioner to investigate. The Information Commissioner is a Crown appointment, responsible for monitoring compliance with the FOIA. Please contact: Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: www.ico.org.uk

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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