Pilot Independent School Review of Beaulieu (FOI)

Request

A

Please kindly provide the Pilot Independent School Review of Beaulieu carried out in 2022.

Please also confirm:

B

The date(s) of inspection.

C

How many individuals were interviewed as part of the inspection process, broken down by whether they were staff, students, management.

D

The names and titles of the team responsible for carrying out the inspection.

E

The associated cost.

F

Does the Government have a specific policy regarding the monitoring of schools placed in special measures? If so, please kindly provide this.

Response

A

Please see the link below for the Beaulieu review carried out in November 2022 under the Jersey Schools Review Framework.

Jersey Schools Review Framework – Independent Report of Beaulieu Convent School.pdf (gov.je)

B

The review was carried out between 15 and 17 November 2022.

C

Various staff, students and members of the school management team were interviewed as part of this review, further details can be found on page 7 of the report. Please see link above. The exact numbers have not been recorded.

D

The review team consisted of five reviewers. Four of the team are senior advisers and the other an education adviser from the Department for Children, Young People, Education and Skills. The review was led by a senior adviser who is an experienced off-island inspector.

The Department have determined that to disclose the names of the team responsible for carrying out the inspection, would likely breach the privacy of the individuals involved and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.

E

There was no additional financial cost as the review was carried out by Children, Young People, Education and Skills department as part of their usual business. 

F

The Government of Jersey does not place schools in special measures, and there is no category in its Framework for special measures.

Further details about the School Review Framework can be found in the following link:

Jersey Schools Review Framework (gov.je)

 Article applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.