Unaccompanied child migrants
Case reference FOI2023/01587
Published 27 October 2023
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
How many 'unaccompanied child migrants' has your authority been responsible for between January 2022 and now?
What percentage of 'unaccompanied child migrants' that your authority is responsible for have had their age reassessed during this time period?
What is the total number of 'unaccompanied child migrants' that have been found to be above the age of sixteen during this time period?
Response
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:
How many 'unaccompanied child migrants' has your authority been responsible for between January 2022 and now?
What percentage of 'unaccompanied child migrants' that your authority is responsible for have had their age reassessed during this time period?
What is the total number of 'unaccompanied child migrants' that have been found to be above the age of sixteen during this time period?
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.
For Question 3, our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information. To ascertain the data requested, officers would need to manually check individual files for this information. An initial search has shown that 1,654 files would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 5 minutes to check each file. Once the details had been identified this would need to be noted and once all files had been checked in this way, the total figures requested could be calculated, etc.
This would, at a conservative estimate, take at least 137 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.
However, within the 18 hour limit, we can provide answers to questions 1 and 2 if required. Please advise us if this is something you require.
Documents
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