Social Workers misconduct in public office
Dear Health and Care Professions Council,
How many social workers have been strike off from misconduct in public office?
Yours faithfully,
iain thomas wolkowski
Dear Mr Wolkowski
Thank you for your email dated 18 May 2019, in which you ask for the
number of social workers who have been struck off for misconduct in public
office.
We are treating this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA).
We will deal with your request as promptly as possible and at the latest,
within 20 working days of receiving it, as required by the FOIA. If you
have any queries about your request please do contact us using this email
address, or the address below.
The reference number for your request is FR06161.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road
London SE11 4BU
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Our Ref. FR06161
Dear Mr Wolkowski
Thank you for your email dated 18 May 2019, in which you ask for the
number of social workers who have been struck off for misconduct in public
office.
Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA).
We are unable to provide you with the information you have requested as
the information is not held in an easily accessible format. In order to
provide you with a full response we would need to manually review all
fitness to practise cases for social workers where the registrant was
struck off because of misconduct to determine whether the registrant was
in public office at the time when the case was brought against them. This
would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the FOIA, that
being £450.
Staff time can be charged at £25 per hour, this equates to 18 hours before
the limit is met. We estimate that to access each case file and extract
the information you have requested would take 10 minutes per case. There
have been 222 cases brought against social workers where the registrant
was struck off because of misconduct. 222 multiplied by 10 minutes equates
to 37 hours, therefore exceeding the cost limit.
Internal review
If you are unhappy with the way your request for information has been
handled, you can request a review by writing to:
Governance
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House
184 - 186 Kennington Park Road
London
SE11 4BU
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If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request or complaint,
you have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner at:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
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Wilmslow
Cheshire
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Telephone: 0303 123 1113
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There is no charge for making an appeal.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road
London SE11 4BU
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Dear Health and Care Professions Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Health and Care Professions Council's handling of my FOI request 'Social Workers misconduct in public office'.
£450 quoted is a rip off. I need figures not cost how it much is costs i think you misunderstand my question
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,
iain thomas wolkowski
Dear Mr Wolkowski
Thank you for your email dated 12 June 2019, the contents of which has
been noted.
As you are unhappy with our response to your request for information dated
18 May 2019, your request has been escalated for an internal review and as
such has now been passed to the Governance Manager.
We aim to respond to your internal review as soon as possible. The
reference number for your request is FR06227.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information
Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road
London SE11 4BU
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Dear Mr Wolkowski
I write in response to your request for a review of the HCPC’s response to
the freedom of information request you made.
Original request
Your request dated 18 May 2019 asked for the number of social workers who
have been struck off for misconduct in public office.
We explained that the information you requested is not held in an easily
accessible format and as such, we would need to manually review all social
worker fitness to practise cases where the registrant was struck off due
to misconduct, to determine whether the registrant was in public office at
the time when the case was brought against them.
We applied the cost exemption in Section 12 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (FOIA), as a manual collation of data would exceed the cost
limits under the FOIA. We provided an estimate of the amount of time it
would take to provide you with a full response and therefore the cost that
would be incurred.
Internal review
Having considered the HCPC’s response to you, I can confirm that the
information is exempt under Section 12.
We do not record whether a registrant is in public office at the time of
receiving a fitness to practise complaint about them. A manual review of
cases would therefore need to be conducted. The cost of collating the data
would exceed the limits under the FOIA and would place disproportionate
burden on the HCPC’s resources.
Review of response
Should you wish, you may request that the Information Commissioner reviews
this response. Please contact-
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
There is no charge for making an appeal,
Yours sincerely
Claire Amor
Head of Governance
The Health and Care Professions Council
Park House, 184 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4BU
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