Single Sex facilities
Dear Co-op Academy North Manchester,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Please disclose the following:
Do you have mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets for pupils? Yes/No
If yes, please:
list location of toilet blocks and disclose for each toilet block:
number of mixed sex toilets with shared handwashing facilities
number of mixed sex toilets with self-contained hand washing in each toilet
number of toilets in separate girls toilet blocks
number of toilets and number of urinals in separate boys toilet blocks
For stand alone separate single mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets for student use, please disclose the:
number of stand alone accessible toilets on site
number of stand alone toilets on site, not fitted out for accessible use
Please provide the following information:
current policies or rules on use of toilets
documents/reports presented to the governing body on:
converting single sex toilets to mixed sex toilets, and
discipline problems relating to use of pupil toilets.
Have you reported any sexual assaults to the police 2021 to date?
Yes/No
If yes, please state year, and location(s) of the alleged sexual assault(s).
For new build and converted mixed sex (also known as unisex or gender neutral) toilets in your school, please disclose:
Risk assessments
equality impact assessments
For converted toilets, date(s) of conversion and cost of work
Time limit: You should regard the 20 working day limit for answering FOIs as a ‘long stop’, in other words the latest possible date on which you may issue a response (ICO guidance on time limits in FOIA Section 10).
Excessive costs: If this request needs refining to make it possible for you to comply without incurring excessive costs (FOIA Section 12), consider ways in which you can help me to refine my request so you can answer without exceeding the appropriate limit. Please let me know as soon as possible, so you will be able to make the disclosures promptly, within the Section 10 time limit.
Redactions:
Please ensure that where you deem it necessary under s.40 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to redact personal data or any other information, please redact the minimum necessary (eg redact an individual’s name not their organisation in email addresses) and send me the rest of the material, explaining the legal grounds for each redaction.
Accessibility
If the information is already published, please provide the link to the document and let me know the relevant page number or agenda item.
Please acknowledge receipt of this request.
Many thanks for your assistance.
Yours,
Mrs I Williams
Dear Mrs I Williams
Thank you for your e-mail of 21st May, in which you ask for details of
single sex facilities. Your request is being handled as a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We must answer your request within 20 school days (not including school
holidays).
We will aim to send you a full response by 19th June, which is twenty
working days from the date when we received your request.
If you have any questions about the handling of your information request,
please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely
Nora Nemane
GDRPR ambassador
Co-op Academy North Manchester
Dear Mrs I Williams
I am writing further to my e-mail of 5th June, about your request for
single sex facilities. Your request has been handled as a request for
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I am able to disclose the information requested. I hope that this
information meets your requirements.
If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an internal
review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within
two months to our Data Protection Officer, details of which are below. If
you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why
you are dissatisfied with the response.
Tammy Pyszky
Data Protection Officer
[1][email address]
As part of any internal review the handling of your information request
will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with
this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you
would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as
established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Nora Nemane
GDPR ambassador
Co-op Academy North Manchester
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