Dear Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council,

Please send me electronic copies of all serious case reviews or child death inquiries (otherwise or also known as Part 8 Reviews) conducted by the Local [Neath Port Talbot] Safeguarding Children Board or by any other predecessor or successor body, which have been published since 1st January 2003 to date.

Please send copies of the Overview/Full Report; otherwise please send copies of the Executive Summaries. Where Executive Summaries only are available please provide reasons for absence of the overview/full report.

If none are available or are withheld please provide the reason for non-publication.

01.04.2017

Yours faithfully,

dai pugh

Dear Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Serious case reviews/child death inquiries – Neath Port Talbot'.

Thank you for your response which is disappointing as far as disclosure of the requested information viz Serious Case Reviews [SCR’s] is concerned.

It is disturbing that SCR’s are not publicly available [even in anonymised format] and I note that Haringey Council in a response to a Robin Smith [Ref: 144095] dated 01.02.2013 disclosed three SCR’s plus an Executive Summary following a request going back to 01.01.1975.

I should be obliged if you would conduct a review not least to establish that;

1. such information can be withheld from public scrutiny [including scrutiny by Council Members acting for their constituents or as Corporate Parents];

2. information [SCR’s] is only published by the selection or the discretion of non-public authorities, such as the Western Bay LCSB which is/are nevertheless publicly/taxpayer funded, as to what information should be disclosed.

3. The SCR’s are reliant on information being provided to the Western Bay LCSB by the local authority and other agency services which may or may not be withheld from the Report writer.

4. The terms of reference for the SCR are drawn up by the agency services possibly limiting the probative and outcome value of any SCR.

Thank you in advance.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours faithfully,

dai pugh

Dear FOI Team,
I note that there has been no response to my request for an internal review; repeated below;

-- " - Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Serious case reviews/child death inquiries – Neath Port Talbot'.

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Serious case reviews/child death inquiries – Neath Port Talbot'.
Thank you for your response which is disappointing as far as disclosure of the requested information viz Serious Case Reviews [SCR’s] is concerned.
It is disturbing that SCR’s are not publicly available [even in anonymised format] and I note that Haringey Council in a response to a Robin Smith [Ref: 144095] dated 01.02.2013 disclosed three SCR’s plus an Executive Summary following a request going back to 01.01.1975.
I should be obliged if you would conduct a review not least to establish that;
1. such information can be withheld from public scrutiny [including scrutiny by Council Members acting for their constituents or as Corporate Parents];
2. information [SCR’s] is only published by the selection or the discretion of non-public authorities, such as the Western Bay LCSB which is/are nevertheless publicly/taxpayer funded, as to what information should be disclosed.
3. The SCR’s are reliant on information being provided to the Western Bay LCSB by the local authority and other agency services which may or may not be withheld from the Report writer.
4. The terms of reference for the SCR are drawn up by the agency services possibly limiting the probative and outcome value of any SCR.
Thank you in advance.-""

I further note that some local authorities in England eg Liverpool City Council make their SCR's [or summaries] publicly available!?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

Yours sincerely,

dai pugh

Dear FOI Team,

This matter seems to be taking an awfully long time to deal with considering it is only a request for a number/statistic in two parts/timelines.

Perhaps you can speed things up?

Yours sincerely,

dai pugh

Dear FOI Team,

Are we any nearer to getting the IR/FoI request satisfied - set out below. Please ignore the most recent reference to two numbers as NPT have already provided that information.

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Dear FOI Team,
I note that there has been no response to my request for an internal review; repeated below;

-- " - Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Serious case reviews/child death inquiries – Neath Port Talbot'.

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Serious case reviews/child death inquiries – Neath Port Talbot'.
Thank you for your response which is disappointing as far as disclosure of the requested information viz Serious Case Reviews [SCR’s] is concerned.
It is disturbing that SCR’s are not publicly available [even in anonymised format] and I note that Haringey Council in a response to a Robin Smith [Ref: 144095] dated 01.02.2013 disclosed three SCR’s plus an Executive Summary following a request going back to 01.01.1975.
I should be obliged if you would conduct a review not least to establish that;
1. such information can be withheld from public scrutiny [including scrutiny by Council Members acting for their constituents or as Corporate Parents];
2. information [SCR’s] is only published by the selection or the discretion of non-public authorities, such as the Western Bay LCSB which is/are nevertheless publicly/taxpayer funded, as to what information should be disclosed.
3. The SCR’s are reliant on information being provided to the Western Bay LCSB by the local authority and other agency services which may or may not be withheld from the Report writer.
4. The terms of reference for the SCR are drawn up by the agency services possibly limiting the probative and outcome value of any SCR.
Thank you in advance.-""

I further note that some local authorities in England eg Liverpool City Council make their SCR's [or summaries] publicly available!?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...

I await to hear from you the IR request was first made in April and followed up in July.

Yours sincerely,

dai pugh