Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with the following responses to questions concerning after-school clubs on school sites. This refers to clubs or provision for children taking place in mainstream or independent schools.
a) Please provide the number of safeguarding referrals concerning after-school settings or clubs over the last five financial years (beginning 2017/18 up to the point this response is answered). Please detail a short description of the nature of the incident, the number of pupils and staff involved, and the outcome of the referral or investigation (if any).
We do not hold the data to be able to report on this request. The reason is that the information recorded on the referral can not be automatically attributed to the after-school settings or where organised abuse is identified. This may well be possible by reviewing the wider referral/case recording but that would require a manual review which would well exceed the allotted time. So far in 2021 alone there have been 3,712 referrals to Devon County Council where abuse or neglect was the referral reason. If we spent 5 minutes reviewing each of these it would take = (5 x 3712)/60 = 309 hours for one partial year’s data.
Therefore compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which is currently £450 or 18 hours of officer time.
b) Over the same period in the same settings, please also detail all cases where possible ‘organised abuse’ was investigated involving multiple children and multiple possible offenders as detailed in the London Child Protection Procedures.
We do not hold the data to be able to report on this request. The reason is that the information recorded on the referral can not be automatically attributed to the after-school settings or where organised abuse is identified. This may well be possible by reviewing the wider referral/case recording but that would require a manual review which would well exceed the allotted time. So far in 2021 alone there have been 3,712 referrals to Devon County Council where abuse or neglect was the referral reason. If we spent 5 minutes reviewing each of these it would take = (5 x 3712)/60 = 309 hours for one partial year’s data.
Therefore compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which is currently £450 or 18 hours of officer time.