Dear Ms Danleme

Your request for information ref: SOT-114498

Thank you for your request for information about school uniform grants
offered by the local authority in each academic year between 2013/14 and
2022/23.  Your request was received by the Information Rights Team on 17
October 2022.  This is being dealt with under the terms of the appropriate
Information Rights legislation.

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November 2022 in line with the legislation's 20 working day statutory
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Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

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Dear Ms Danleme

Your request for information ref. SOT-114498

We have now considered your request and unfortunately we do not hold this
information. School Uniform grant issues are dealt with directly by
schools and therefore you would need to contact each school individually.
All schools can be found at this link

[1]Schools search | Stoke-on-Trent

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request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
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Team, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Floor 4, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,
ST4 1HH, or email [2][Stoke on Trent City Council request email].

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have already used our internal review procedure. The Information
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Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

Information Rights

City of Stoke-on-Trent

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Request

Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,

Under the FOI Act I would like to request the following information:

1. For each of the 10 academic years 2013/14-2022/23 (including the
current academic year) please specify whether the council has offered a
school uniform grant or similar scheme (for example school clothing
voucher or allowance), and if so what the budget was in each year.

2. Where a grant, voucher or other support was offered, please provide:

a) The number of applications received in each of those years.

b) The number of grants awarded in each of those years

c) The amount of money awarded in total in each of those years.

d) If a further breakdown is available by school, ward, uniform type, or
gender, etc. please also provide this for each year.

Yours faithfully,

Giselle Danleme

 
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