Severely learning disabled adults: recording of gender and/or sex
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information, which relates to care provided or commissioned for severely learning disabled adults, specifically those who lack capacity to express a view on their own *gender* or any preference as to the *sex* of their care staff, such as the learning disabled female whose rape and infection with HIV by male care staff is described in this Brent Safeguarding Adult Review:
https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/media/164117...
1. Does your social care management system (the database or other systems your organisation uses to record personal data for disabled adults in connection with your duties under the Care Act 2014) include a field for the characteristic of *gender*?
a. Are there a defined set of responses from which to select, and if so, what are they?
b. Please provide any documents, such as notes of meetings, internal correspondence etc, recording how you determined what should and should not be included in the defined set of responses
c. How is it populated for adults who lack capacity to express a view on their own gender
2. Does it include a field for the protected characteristic of *sex*?
a. Are there a defined set of responses from which to select, and if so, what are they?
b. Is it mandatory to populate this field with some value, or can it be left void/completely blank?
3. Do you have policies or procedures that have the objective of ensuring that users of your services (commissioned or provided directly) of the female sex is who require assistance with intimate care receive this from carers of the female sex. If so, please provide copies.
4. Please provide copies of any policies specific to individual Equality Act protected characteristics (excluding marriage and civil partnership) and the unprotected characteristic of gender of care workers and/or service users, i.e any policies specific individually to
a. gender reassignment/trans identified care workers and/or service users
b. the age of care workers and/or care workers and/or service users
c. the disability of care workers and/or service users
d. the pregnancy of care workers and/or service users, but there is no need to provide copies of HR employee maternity leave policies
e. the race of care workers and/or service users
f. the religion or belief of care workers and/or service users
g. the sex of care workers and or service users
h. the sexual orientation of care workers and/or service users
i. the non protected characteristic of gender of care works and/or service users
Please provide the information in the form of an email.
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 my request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request.
Yours faithfully
Saladin Rospigliosi Pallavicini
Yours faithfully,
Saladin Pallavicini
Dear Requester,
Thank you for your recent request for information, received on 13 February
20225.
Your request:
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request
the following information, which relates to care provided or commissioned
for severely learning disabled adults, specifically those who lack
capacity to express a view on their own *gender* or any preference as to
the *sex* of their care staff, such as the learning disabled female whose
rape and infection with HIV by male care staff is described in this Brent
Safeguarding Adult Review:
[1]https://legacy.brent.gov.uk/media/164117...
1. Does your social care management system (the database or other systems
your organisation uses to record personal data for disabled adults in
connection with your duties under the Care Act 2014) include a field for
the characteristic of *gender*?
a. Are there a defined set of responses from which to select, and if so,
what are they?
b. Please provide any documents, such as notes of meetings, internal
correspondence etc, recording how you determined what should and should
not be included in the defined set of responses c. How is it populated for
adults who lack capacity to express a view on their own gender
2. Does it include a field for the protected characteristic of *sex*?
a. Are there a defined set of responses from which to select, and if so,
what are they?
b. Is it mandatory to populate this field with some value, or can it be
left void/completely blank?
3. Do you have policies or procedures that have the objective of ensuring
that users of your services (commissioned or provided directly) of the
female sex is who require assistance with intimate care receive this from
carers of the female sex. If so, please provide copies.
4. Please provide copies of any policies specific to individual Equality
Act protected characteristics (excluding marriage and civil partnership)
and the unprotected characteristic of gender of care workers and/or
service users, i.e any policies specific individually to a. gender
reassignment/trans identified care workers and/or service users b. the age
of care workers and/or care workers and/or service users c. the disability
of care workers and/or service users d. the pregnancy of care workers
and/or service users, but there is no need to provide copies of HR
employee maternity leave policies e. the race of care workers and/or
service users f. the religion or belief of care workers and/or service
users g. the sex of care workers and or service users h. the sexual
orientation of care workers and/or service users i. the non protected
characteristic of gender of care works and/or service users Please provide
the information in the form of an email.
The Council’s response:
I can confirm that this council does not hold any information in relation
to your request and that your request would be better directed to
[2]Suffolk County Council who are responsible for the following:
• Highway improvements & Traffic control
• Social Care & Children's and Young People's Services
• Education
• Gypsies and travellers
• Pension funds
• Public Health
• Libraries
• Trading Standards
If you have any queries about this email, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number FOI202425629 in any future
communications.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to the Monitoring Officer, Grafton House, 15-17 Russell
Road, Ipswich IP1 2DE, within 40 working days of the date of response.
Please note that we are not obliged to accept requests for internal
reviews after this date.
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision.
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
complaints procedure provided by the Council.
Kind regards
The Information Officer
[3][Ipswich Borough Council request email]
Ipswich Borough Council
Grafton House
15-17 Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2DE
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