Child protection and safeguarding: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
All correspondence (including any meeting or call notes) between Education Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council from 01/01/2020 to the current date, in regard to child protection and safeguarding.
Response
Some of the information you have requested is available from the Scottish Government website Publications - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names and contact details of staff who work for Education Scotland as well as contact details of staff who work for Aberdeenshire Council, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018.
This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
Previous Freedom of Information (FOI) responses and correspondence within scope of your request are shown in the table below.
| Previous FOI responses | 202200287758 | Child protection or safeguarding concerns in Scotland: FOI release - gov.scot |
| 202200294660 | Education Scotland safeguarding correspondence: FOI release - gov.scot | |
| 202200329532 | Education Scotland and Aberdeenshire Council: FOI release - gov.scot |
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| 202200332497 | Education Scotland emails regarding Aberdeen Council: FOI release - gov.scot |
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| 202300344055 | Investigative action into Aberdeenshire's education department: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) | |
| 202300344039 | Child protection or safeguarding concerns in Scotland: FOI release - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) | |
| Correspondence in scope of your request | Emails relating to a glow concern – 04/12/2020 |
Annex A |
| Glow Concern Teams messages – 04/12/2020 |
Annex B | |
| Emails relating to safe guarding in concordance to HMI gradings and school self-evaluation gradings – 01/03/2023 |
Annex C | |
| Emails relating to a Glow concern – 12/01/2023 |
Annex D | |
| Emails relating to a Glow concern - 19/04/2023 |
Annex E |
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Contact
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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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