Supporting gender reassignment recognition for pupils.
Dear East Ayrshire Council,
Per FOISA, please supply me with information contained within your records as follows:
1) Per School, please provide the number of pupils that have received gender reassignment recognition.
a) Please break the numbers down per school for male pupils identifying as female?
b) Please break the numbers down per school for female pupils identifying as males?
2) Please also provide the number of pupils per school that have received gender reassignment recognition that each school have supported and have any change of gender name officially recorded on the School and Educational System data base per school?
a) Please break this down for males identifying as females with name change recorded?
b) Please break this down for females now identifying as males with name change recorded?
Yours faithfully,
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Dear East Ayrshire Council,
Please note I do not now require a break down of numbers per school, as I appreciate that the numbers we talking about here are minimal and may identify an individual.
To assist I require the data from academic year 2019/20 to date broken down AY on AY.
Yours faithfully,
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vital research into finding a cure.
Please consider donating to the Provost’s chosen charity for the next two
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Dear East Ayrshire Council,
Please see another response for this request from South Ayrshire Council, just to ensure you don’t attempt a spurious exemption:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
[name removed]
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vital research into finding a cure.
Please consider donating to the Provost’s chosen charity for the next two
years to help people living with Motor Neurone Disease.
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CLASSIFICATION: PUBLIC
Request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
I refer to your correspondence dated 8 November 2022 requesting
information in relation to supporting gender reassignment recognition for
pupils.
The Council is treating your request as a request under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and can respond as follows:
1)
As you are looking for a collated figure of the number of pupils that have
received gender reassignment recognition, I hereby give you notice in
terms of Section 17 of the Freedom of (Information) Scotland Act 2002,
that this information is not held. We do not centrally record this
information.
Further, any support of pupils regarding gender reassignment would be
recorded at individual level within pupil files/pastoral notes. A
Scottish public authority is not obliged to comply with a request for
information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the
request would exceed such amount as may be prescribed in regulations made
by Scottish Ministers, such amount currently being £600. In order to
collate figures as requested by you, a manual trawl through all pupil
files would be required. There are currently 16149 pupils within the East
Ayrshire area. As such, we are unable to provide this information.
However, regarding gender reassignment recognition generally, as a Local
Authority and Education Service, we approach gender change in a very
sensitive manner with the wellbeing of the young person at the centre of
our processes. Schools work with pupils and families to support young
people who are trans gendering and for those who are struggling with
parental support, we help them have discussions with parents in a
controlled and secure environment. Any pupil who approaches the school
seeking gender reassignment recognition will be listened to, supported and
recognised.
2)
From August 2021 to date, we have received 13 application for pupil name
change due to gender change. All 13 applications are from the secondary
sector. Of the 13 applications received only 5 pupils went ahead with
their name change.
a) males identifying as females with name change recorded? 2
b) females now identifying as males with name change recorded? 3
As a Local Authority and Education Service, we approach gender change in a
very sensitive manner with the wellbeing of the young person at the centre
of our processes. Schools work with pupils and families to support young
people who are trans gendering and for those who are struggling with
parental support we help them have discussions with parents in a
controlled and secure environment. Any pupil who approaches the school
seeking gender reassignment recognition will be listened to, supported and
recognised.
I trust this information has been of assistance to you and I have attached
a leaflet to confirm your rights.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further
information.
Kind regards,
Caroline
Caroline Craig
Interim Business Assistant
Education Service
East Ayrshire Council
London Road
KILMARNOCK
KA3 7BU
Tel: 07392864105
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