Self-harm incidents
Dear Scottish Prison Service,
Can you please repeat this FOI:
http://www.sps.gov.uk/FreedomofInformati...
reference: FOI HQ 18297
to provide information for 2019 to date?
And can you also provide the same data for each of the five calendar years prior to 2018?
Yours faithfully,
Ewan Cameron
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Dear Mr Cameron,
As you are aware the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, allows a public authority 20 workings days to retrieve information requested and to draft the response.
Your request was received on 25 July , therefore the response will be provided by 23 August.
Kind regards
Alistair Gardiner
Legal Services Team Manager
Scottish Prison Service
Dear Alistair,
I am indeed aware the FOI act allows 20 working days for a reply.
Are you aware the request went in on July 4 - hence why I am chasing you up?
According to the Information Commissioner website you should count Friday July 5 ("the first working day after the request is received") as the first day. I received an email acknowledgement of my request on July 4, so I hope you will understand my confusion, given you have missed the 20-day deadline.
Yours sincerely,
Ewan Cameron
Dear Mr Cameron,
Please see below your most request for information clearly dated 25 July. This was the request to which I thought you were enquiring.
You did however make an earlier request on 4 July to which a response was provided on 31 July. Given your enquiry it would seem that for some reason you have not received it. I have therefore attached that response here for you convenience.
Kind Regards
Alistair Gardiner
Legal Services Team Manager
Scottish Prison Service
Dear Alistair,
I use the WhatDoTheyKnow website, which collates my FOI requests and your response came under my July 4 request about self harm incidents, hence the confusion. Thank you for sending on the information, which hadn't arrived for one reason or another.
Yours sincerely,
Ewan Cameron
Dear Ewan Cameron,
Please find attached our response to your recent FOI request.
Kind regards,
Tom Fox
Head of Corporate Affairs
J Roberts left an annotation ()
I forgot to say the data relates to England and Wales, but some people may be interested in it.
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Justice in Numbers pocketbook
February 2023
'Self-harm incidents per 1,000 prisoners
Self-harm in prison covers a wide range of severity and type of incident, including cutting, overdose or hanging.
Latest published data: In the 12 months to Sep 2022 there were 687 self-harm incidents per 1,000 prisoners' .(p36)
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