Child social service users transported by social workers own personal vehicles
Case reference FOI2025/00798
Received 21 April 2025
Published 2 May 2025
Request
Response
Have child social service users, children and adults, been transported by social workers own personal vehicles in the year 2022?
A: This information is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information, as we are not able to search under the parametres of the request. To ascertain the data requested officers would need to manually check children’s files for this information. An initial search has shown that for the time period requested, there were 1661 cases open to Social Care, which would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 5 minutes to check each file to see if the child has been transported by social workers own personal vehicles during that timeframe.
This would at a conservative estimate take at least 138.4 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
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