Complaints received and staff turnover at OK Nursery (FOI)

​​Request

A.

How many complaints have been received in relation to OK Nursery?

B.

What action was taken?

C.

What the staff turnover is at OK nursery?

Response

A + B.

The Education Department can neither confirm nor deny whether they hold the information requested.

C.

The Education Department hold information regarding private nursery setting staff and child minders in order to carry out fit person checks and facilitate DBS checks. 

The department do not hold information on staff turnover, nor do the Education Department hold enough information to determine staff turnover.

10 Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information, it must inform the applicant accordingly.
(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information if it had held it,

the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.