Services to Foster Carers
Dear South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),
I am writing to make a request for all the following information which I am entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide a copy of the following information related to commissioned services to foster carers and kinship carers in your Trust area. Please provide details of the spending broken down by financial year for each of the last 3 years (2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22)
1) The total spent to purchase carers' membership of the Fostering Network each year.
2) The total spent on commissioned carer ‘independent’ support and advocacy services associated with allegations and complaints made against carers each year.
3) Please provide copies of the most recent evaluations of each of these services.
4) Please provide copies of the Trust’s documented Public Patient involvement (PPI) of carers in the planning, commissioning, and evaluation of membership services of the Fostering Network as required by the Health and Social Care Reform Act (NI) 2009)
5) Please provide copies of the Trust’s documented Public Patient involvement (PPI) of carers in the planning, commissioning, and evaluation of the ‘independent’ support and advocacy service associated with allegations and complaints made against carers from the Fostering Network as required by the Health and Social Care Reform Act (NI) 2009).
I would like the above information to be provided to me as an electronic copy.
If the request is too broad or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand under the Act you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of the information is already in the public domain, please send it to me directly with page references or URLs when necessary.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance under the section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine the request.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within 20 working days after receiving this request. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing you have received this request.
I look forward to hearing from you soon,
Yours faithfully,
Dr Alastair Scott-McKinley
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Information
Governance Department, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.
We will respond to your email as soon as possible, we aim to reply to you
within the statutory time frames.
Please note our office hours are Monday to Friday 9-5 excluding Bank and
Public holidays, outside of these hours your email will not be actioned
until the next working day.
Information Governance Department
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held by HSC may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. All emails held by HSC may also be disclosed, where
required, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
Dear Dr Scott-McKinley
Freedom of Information Act 2000
RFI 56495 - Information relating to Commissioned Services to Foster Carers
and Kinship Carers
Thank you for your correspondence regarding the above. Your request was
received on 9 February 2024 and I am dealing with it under the terms of
the above legislation.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Kind regards
Caroline Degans
Information Governance Manager (Acting)
Information Governance Department
Lough House,
Ards Community Hospital
Newtownards, BT23 4AS
Tele: (028) 9151 2154
Ext: 17437
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mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this email,
please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Any views
or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of HSC. The content of emails sent and
received via the HSC network may be monitored for the purposes of ensuring
compliance with HSC policies and procedures. Please be aware that e-mail
may not be a secure medium. This e-mail (whether you are the sender or the
recipient) may be monitored and monitoring and blocking software may be
used. While HSC takes precautions in scanning outgoing emails for computer
viruses, no responsibility will be accepted by HSC in the event that the
email is infected by a computer virus. Recipients are therefore encouraged
to take their own precautions in relation to virus scanning. All emails
held by HSC may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. All emails held by HSC may also be disclosed, where
required, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
Dear Information Governance,
Good morning please could you provide the information requested or advise when this information will be provided?
Yours sincerely,
Alastair Scott-McKinley
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Information
Governance Department, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.
We will respond to your email as soon as possible, we aim to reply to you
within the statutory time frames.
Please note our office hours are Monday to Friday 9-5 excluding Bank and
Public holidays, outside of these hours your email will not be actioned
until the next working day.
Information Governance Department
The information contained in this email and any attachments is
confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named
addressee(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any
mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this email,
please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Any views
or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of HSC. The content of emails sent and
received via the HSC network may be monitored for the purposes of ensuring
compliance with HSC policies and procedures. Please be aware that e-mail
may not be a secure medium. This e-mail (whether you are the sender or the
recipient) may be monitored and monitoring and blocking software may be
used. While HSC takes precautions in scanning outgoing emails for computer
viruses, no responsibility will be accepted by HSC in the event that the
email is infected by a computer virus. Recipients are therefore encouraged
to take their own precautions in relation to virus scanning. All emails
held by HSC may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. All emails held by HSC may also be disclosed, where
required, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
Dear Mr Scott-Mckinley
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request, I have contacted the service for an update on the progress and I hope to issue a response to you soon.
I will keep you update don the matter.
Kind regards,
Rebecca Manning
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Department
Lough House
Ards Community Hospital
Newtownards
BT23 4AS
Email:- [email address]
Dear Information Governance,
Good afternoon, please can you on this information request?
A further week has passed.
Yours sincerely,
Alastair Scott-McKinley
Thank you for your email which has been received by the Information
Governance Department, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.
We will respond to your email as soon as possible, we aim to reply to you
within the statutory time frames.
Please note our office hours are Monday to Friday 9-5 excluding Bank and
Public holidays, outside of these hours your email will not be actioned
until the next working day.
Information Governance Department
The information contained in this email and any attachments is
confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named
addressee(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any
mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this email,
please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Any views
or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of HSC. The content of emails sent and
received via the HSC network may be monitored for the purposes of ensuring
compliance with HSC policies and procedures. Please be aware that e-mail
may not be a secure medium. This e-mail (whether you are the sender or the
recipient) may be monitored and monitoring and blocking software may be
used. While HSC takes precautions in scanning outgoing emails for computer
viruses, no responsibility will be accepted by HSC in the event that the
email is infected by a computer virus. Recipients are therefore encouraged
to take their own precautions in relation to virus scanning. All emails
held by HSC may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. All emails held by HSC may also be disclosed, where
required, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
Dear South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)'s handling of my FOI request 'Services to Foster Carers'.
The has been a significant delay in the processing of my request.
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,
Dr. Alastair Scott-McKinley
Dear Mr Scott-McKinley
I have contacted the relevant service for an update and I hope to have a response issued to you this week.
Thank you for your patience on the matter
Kind regards,
Rebecca Manning
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Department
Lough House
Ards Community Hospital
Newtownards
BT23 4AS
Email:- [email address]
Dear Mr Scott-McKinley,
Please find attached a response to your Freedom of Information Request RFI
56495. We apologise for the delay in issuing this to you. The delay was
due to trying to ascertain who held the information you requested in order
to provide you with a complete and accurate response.
Kind regards
Rebecca Manning
Information Governance Team
Email:- [1][email address]
The information contained in this email and any attachments is
confidential and intended solely for the attention and use of the named
addressee(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any
mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient of this email,
please inform the sender by return email and destroy all copies. Any views
or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the views of HSC. The content of emails sent and
received via the HSC network may be monitored for the purposes of ensuring
compliance with HSC policies and procedures. Please be aware that e-mail
may not be a secure medium. This e-mail (whether you are the sender or the
recipient) may be monitored and monitoring and blocking software may be
used. While HSC takes precautions in scanning outgoing emails for computer
viruses, no responsibility will be accepted by HSC in the event that the
email is infected by a computer virus. Recipients are therefore encouraged
to take their own precautions in relation to virus scanning. All emails
held by HSC may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. All emails held by HSC may also be disclosed, where
required, under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
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