Supporting gender reassignment recognition for pupils. dressing behaving or living according to identified gender
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. that the school have supported and that he or she starts or continues to dress, behave or live (full-time or part-time) according to the gender with which he or she identifies as a person;
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?
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,
[name removed]
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to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND), as well as funding
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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Dear East Ayrshire Council,
Out of Courtesy
Please see another response for this request from Dundee Council, just to ensure you don’t attempt a spurious exemption:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours Sincerely
[name removed]
[name removed]
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MND Scotland is the leading charity in Scotland providing care and support
to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND), as well as funding
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.
[1]https://eastayrshi.re/provostcharitydona...
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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. dressing behaving or living according to identified gender.
The Council is treating your request as a request under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and can respond as follows:
As you are looking for a collated figure of the number of pupils that have
received gender reassignment recognition that the school have supported
and that he or she starts or continues to dress, behave or live (full-time
or part-time) according to the gender with which he or she identifies as a
person, 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.
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
Dear East Ayrshire Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of East Ayrshire Council's handling of my FOI request 'Supporting gender reassignment recognition for pupils. dressing behaving or living according to identified gender'.
I must ask that you re check your records as you are adhering to Scottish Government Guidelines:
To mitigate the application of any spurious exemption please see a successful disclosure supplied by Dundee Council at:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
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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response to advise you that your email has been received
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processed and you should receive a response within one calendar month.
If your enquiry concerns any other matter, your email will be passed to
the
relevant section for appropriate action to be taken.
************************************************************************************
MND Scotland is the leading charity in Scotland providing care and support
to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease (MND), as well as funding
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.
[1]https://eastayrshi.re/provostcharitydona...
References
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1. https://eastayrshi.re/provostcharitydona...
CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL
Dear [name removed]
I refer to your email below.
Please find attached response to your request for review.
Kind regards
Donna Phelps
Solicitor (Information Governance)
East Ayrshire Council
Council Headquarters
London Road
Kilmarnock
KA3 7BU
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