Statutory powers and legislation that allows teaching of LGBTQ+ to under 16's per CfE
Dear Orkney Islands Council,
Per FOISA please provide me with information contained in your records as follows:
Please provide statutory powers and legislation that gives your local authority education and Schools per Curriculum for Excellence, the legal authority to teach LGBTQ+ to children age 16 and under, in schools that fall within your council area?
Please advise at what age or equivalent nursery/Primary year/High School year that LGBTQ+ teaching commenced throughout your local council schools?
Yours faithfully,
[name removed]
[name removed]
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Dear Madam
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information
Thank you for your information request dated 23 January 2023 and received on 23 January 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0095. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
We are considering your request. We may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.
The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we need to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date if possible.
Regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210
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Dear Madam
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information
I refer to your information request received 23 January 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0095.
Can you please clarify what you mean by 'teach LGBTQ+' and 'LGBTQ+ teaching'? What would the teaching include?
Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to the Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email], Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:
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Kind regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210
Dear Orkney Islands Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Orkney Islands Council's handling of my FOI request 'Statutory powers and legislation that allows teaching of LGBTQ+ to under 16's per CfE'.
Failure to respond and give the data requested 'Statutory powers and legislation that allows teaching of LGBTQ+ to under 16's per CfE'.
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,
[name removed]
[name removed]
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Dear Madam
We acknowledge receipt of your request for review and will be in contact in due course.
Kind regards
Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210
Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Dear Sir,
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Review
I refer to your email dated 26 February 2023, with reference to your FOI
2023-00095.
We can now set out a response to your question below.
Schools have been asked to use the Scottish Government guidance:
[1]https://education.gov.scot/media/xpgo5at...,
as well as other Scottish Government LGBTQ+ resources
[2]https://www.gov.scot/policies/lgbti as the basis for meeting the needs
of young people.
With regards to the age at which LGBTQ+ teaching commences throughout our
schools it is important to point out that LGBTQ+ is not 'taught' in the
sense of promoted. It is instead discussed as part of talking about the
importance of lessons on relationships - respectful, positive
relationships between people.
Should the outcome of this review fail to resolve the matter to your
complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish
Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to
do so following receipt of our review outcome – see
[3]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.
Kind Regards
Hazel Flett
Service Manager (Governance)
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Tel: 01856 873535 Extension 2208 Direct Dial: 01856 886463
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