Referrals and Education Status for Vietnamese Nationals

1. How many Vietnamese nationals, if any, did your local authority refer to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019? (I am told you will need to digitally search your NRM forms, and look for those with ‘Vietnam’ or ‘Vietnamese’ in the ‘Nationality’ box on the form.) Please break the numbers down by year, by male/female, and by minors or adults.

Devon County Council (DCC) can confirm that it did not make any referrals for Vietnamese nationals to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in 2016, 2017 or 2018.

For 2019 we can confirm that a/some referral(s) was/were made, but we believe this number and the sex / age of the individual(s) concerned to be exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 – ‘Personal Information’.  This is because disclosure of this information would breach the principles of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations as it could lead to the identification of the individual(s) concerned.

2. Of these cases, how many involve people whose NRM referral mentions them having enrolled at, been a student at, or gone missing from, a school or college in the UK? (‘School’ or ‘college’ or ‘sixth form’ appears in the NRM referral form, I have been told it is straightforward to search digitally). Again, break the numbers down by year, by male/female, and by minors or adults.

DCC can confirm that it holds this information but believes it to be exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 – ‘Personal Information’.  This is because disclosure of this information would breach the principles of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations as it could lead to the identification of the individual(s) concerned.

3. Of these cases mentioned in question 2, please tell me the names of the schools or colleges mentioned in these forms. If you can’t name a specific school or college for operational reasons, please explain what that reason is and for that school/college just tell me what type of school or college it is (independent, sixth form etc, and please make clear if it is private or state funded) and which county it is in.

DCC can confirm that it holds this information but believes it to be exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 – ‘Personal Information’.  This is because disclosure of this information would breach the principles of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations as it could lead to the identification of the individual(s) concerned.

In the interests of providing advice and assistance please see the published National Referral Mechanism End of Year Statistics for 2018.