Social Care

The request was partially successful.

Dear Waltham Forest Borough Council,

Can you please provide the following information:

Who is the Head of IT? Please provide the full name, job title, email address and the phone number.

Who is the Social Care System Manager? Please provide the full name, job title, email address and the phone number.

Who are the Heads of Social Care Finance? Please provide the full names, job titles, email addresses and the phone numbers.

Who is the Lead Social Worker? Please provide the full name, job title, email address and the phone number.

Thank you in advance for answering the questions.

Yours faithfully,

Bartek Polanski

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Re: FOI case FOIX257863

Subject:

foi request - contact details

Description:

Can you please provide the following information:

Who is the Head of IT? Please provide the full name, job title, email
address and the phone number.

Who is the Social Care System Manager? Please provide the full name, job
title, email address and the phone number.

Who are the Heads of Social Care Finance? Please provide the full names,
job titles, email addresses and the phone numbers.

Who is the Lead Social Worker? Please provide the full name, job title,
email address and the phone number.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your recent request for information. Your request was
received on 08 Feb 2017 and we are dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act (2000), and in line with the Council's policy
and protocols.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, we
will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will be
required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries about this message, please contact us via email
at: [1][email address] or by post at:

The London Borough of Waltham Forest
Town Hall
Forest Road
London
E17 4JF

Please remember to quote the reference number FOIX257863 in any future
communications.

Kind regards,
The Information Officer

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to confirm that the Council has now completed its search for
the information which you requested on 08 Feb 2017 about foi request -
contact details.

The information supplied has been provided by the department responsible
for the service delivery. Please see below:

Can you please provide the following information:

Who is the Head of IT? Please provide the full name, job title, email
address and the phone number.

A; The Head of IT is Mr Paul Neville (Director of Digital & ICT), email
address is [1][email address].

please see council website
[2]https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/content... for further
contact information.

Who is the Social Care System Manager? Please provide the full name, job
title, email address and the phone number.

A; The job title that you require does not exist within the council’s
organisational structure.

Who are the Heads of Social Care Finance? Please provide the full names,
job titles, email addresses and the phone numbers.

A; The job titles that you require does not exist within the council’s
organisational structure

Who is the Lead Social Worker? Please provide the full name, job title,
email address and the phone number.

A; I can confirm that the London Borough of Waltham Forest has one Lead
social worker, however with regard to your information request for their
name and contact information, the Council considers that disclosing this
information may lead to the identification of the individuals, so as to
amount to ‘personal data’ under the Data Protection Act 1998. See
Exemption: Section 40(2) FOIA below.

(Section 40(2) of FOIA provides that wherever an application for personal
data is made by someone other than the data subject, the information to
which it relates is exempt from disclosure under the Act where to do so
would contravene one of the data protection principles or the right to
prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress.

The first data protection principle under Schedule 1 of the DPA is that
“personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully and in particular,
shall not be processed unless at least one of the conditions in Schedule 2
is met.” In particular, what is fair and lawful focuses upon what the
reasonable expectation of a person would be in relation to how their
information is used and to whom it may be disclosed.

 Schedule 2 lists the conditions to be met and the one which is most
relevant to the facts of this case is found at Part 6(1) and is applicable
where:

“The processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests
pursued by the data controller or by the third party or parties to whom
the data are disclosed, except where the processing is unwarranted in any
particular case by reason of prejudice to the rights and freedoms or
legitimate interests of the data subject.”

Your interests in the personal data being disclosed must therefore be
balanced against the interests of the ‘data subject’ in the information
not being disclosed. There is no presumption in favour of disclosure of
personal data under the FOIA. My view is that the data subject has a
legitimate interest that their personal data will remain private and would
potentially cause harm to the individuals if disclosed into the public
domain.

The disclosure would be unwarranted and contrary to the first data
protection principle. As the data subject has no expectation of public
disclosure, for these reasons, disclosure will not be fair and lawful.

While I clearly recognise a strong public interest in favour of openness
and transparency by the Council, this does not override other
considerations as mentioned above, in particular the expectation of
privacy by the data subjects and the need to avoid causing damage or
distress to individuals in making the disclosure.)

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to request a review of our decision, you should contact
us via e-mail at: [3][email address] or by post:

The London Borough of Waltham Forest
Town Hall
Forest Road
London
E17 4JA

Please remember to quote the reference number: FOIX257863 in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome your review, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision.
Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the
complaints procedure provided by the Council.

Kind regards,
The Information Officer

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail is
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must not read, copy or distribute it, nor take any action in reliance upon
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identify. No liability is accepted for such viruses, and we therefore
recommend that you carry out your own anti-virus checks before opening any
attachments. Information contained in this e-mail may be subject to public
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.
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