Referrals r.e. nursery settings
Case reference FOI2024/02108
Received 17 December 2024
Published 7 January 2025
Request
The number of referrals to the Local Authority Designated Officer for the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where a person who works with children is alleged to have behaved in a way that has harmed or may have harmed a child in a nursery setting The number of referrals for the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where a person who works with children is alleged to have possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a child in a nursery setting The number of occasions during the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where the police, children’s social care or other authorities have been notified as a result of a referral to the LADO about care in a nursery setting I am requesting these records in full and in digital form. If you need any further information from me in order to deal with my request, please let me know. If you are encountering practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible (in line with your section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters) so we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request.
Response
The number of referrals to the Local Authority Designated Officer for the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where a person who works with children is alleged to have behaved in a way that has harmed or may have harmed a child in a nursery setting The number of referrals for the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where a person who works with children is alleged to have possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a child in a nursery setting The number of occasions during the financial years from 2010 to 2015 and 2019 to 2024 where the police, children’s social care or other authorities have been notified as a result of a referral to the LADO about care in a nursery setting I am requesting these records in full and in digital form. If you need any further information from me in order to deal with my request, please let me know. If you are encountering practical difficulties with complying with this request, please contact me as soon as possible (in line with your section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters) so we can discuss the matter and if necessary I can modify the request.
A: The information requested above 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. To ascertain the data requested officers would need to manually check cases for this information. An initial search has shown that around 500 cases 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 42 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.
I have been advised by the Service Area that we would be able to provide you with the number of referrals in the period 2019 to 2024 for each question. Please let me know if you would like this information.
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