Spending on Additional Support for Learning
Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:
1. Please provide information confirming how much money your local authority, by department and/or relevant budget head, has spent or is spending on implementing the Additional Support Needs framework (as provided for in the Education(Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act (2004)) in:
a) 2006-07;
b) 2007-08;
c) 2008-09; and
d) 2009-10.
In responding to this request, please consider all relevant information that might accurately confirm the amount spent, including information contained within documentation such as budgets and related papers; council and committee papers and minutes; correspondence between and among officers, or between officers and third parties; meeting papers; and any other relevant papers and documents.
2. Please provide information that shows how much your local authority has spent and is spending on:
a) providing and co-ordinating staff, equipment, aids, information, transport, training, services and other support for children with additional needs; and
b) all other services and expenditure relating to supporting children in education with additional needs in:
i)2006-08;
ii) 2007-08;
iii) 2008-09; and
iv) 2009-10
Yours faithfully,
Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)
Dear Ms Higgins
I acknowledge receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 relating to the above. The Council shall
of course respond within the 20 working day period.
Yours sincerely
Doreen Broom
Access to Information Officer
Scottish Borders Council
Corporate Resources - Corporate Administration
Tel: 01835 826516
e-mail: [1][email address]
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Dear Doreen Broom,
I note that your response to my request Spending on Additional Support for Learning is now overdue, and therefore outwith the statutory time limit, and that you have not provided an explanation for the delay.
Kindly provide both a statutory response and an explanation at the earliest opportunity.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)
I am out of the office until Thursday 17 December 2009. Any Freedom of Information requests will be dealt with on my return.
Dear Ms Broom
I do not seem to have received a substantive response to this request, "Spending on Additional Support for Learning" and would appreciate one now, together with a reason for the excessive delay in responding.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)
Dear Ms Higgins
Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 relating to the above I can now respond.
Unfortunately, the Council is unable to comply with your request as the
costs of completing this exercise would exceed the upper fees limit of
£600. The Council does not hold the information in the format requested
and we would have to assign a member of staff to pull all this information
together. This would entail approaching every individual school to
enable the Council to respond to your request.
I have to advise if you are not happy with the information provided then
you have a right to request a review within 40 working days of receipt of
this e-mail. You should either e-mail [1][email address] or
write to the Access to Information Officer, Scottish Borders Council,
Council HQ, Newtown St.Boswells TD6 0SA.
Yours sincerely
Doreen Broom
Access to Information Officer
Scottish Borders Council
Corporate Resources - Corporate Administration
Tel: 01835 826516
e-mail: [2][email address]
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2. mailto:[email address]
Dear Ms Higgins
You will see that I responded to you on 7 December 2009.
Regards,
Doreen Broom
Dear Ms Higgins
As you will see from the e-mail of 7 December 2009 your request was answered well within the timescale. You will also see from the e-mails bellow that I also informed you on 18 December 2009 that I had already responded on 7 December 2009.
Regards,
Doreen
Doreen Broom
Access to Information Officer
Scottish Borders Council
Corporate Resources - Corporate Administration
Tel: 01835 826516
e-mail: [email address]
Ben Harris left an annotation ()
In more detail, this request was sent with a "from" address "request-22869", but the replies were sent to one beginning "request-22689". This seems to have caused them to get lost in the innards of WhatDoTheyKnow for a while.
Ben, WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer
Ben Harris left an annotation ()
Um, when I say 'a "from" address "request-22869"', I mean 'a "from" address beginning "request-22869"'. I don't want to quote the whole address here since that would be likely to attract e-mail from unwelcome sources.
Ben, WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer
Dear Ms Broom,
I apologise for the confusion - your replies to my emails appear to have got "lost" in the What do they Know website system and therefore were unavailable to me. They have put notes against the "traffic" on this request explaining what happenend.
I did wonder though as you had been so prompt with the other requests...
Apologies again and many thanks for your assistance with all my FOI requests.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)
Graeme MacLean left an annotation ()
Public Question: '' Spending on Additional Support for Learning. ''
SBC Reply: '' Must have got lost in the ethos somewhere. ''
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Ben Harris left an annotation ()
I've just found some messages that I think belong with this request but that had been filed somewhere else because they were sent to the wrong email address. I'll re-assign them to this request in a moment.