HCS Board zoom meetings during pandemic (FOI)HCS Board zoom meetings during pandemic (FOI)
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Request
The Health and Community Services (HCS) Board used to meet publicly every month and I understand that during the Covid crisis this would no longer have been possible. They surely would have met via Zoom or some other platform though, although it appears that these meetings have not been advertised publicly which they should have been.
A
Please provide dates of all meeting (in person or digitally) which have taken place since the beginning of 2020.
B
Please provide minutes of these meetings.
C
Please state where these minutes will be recorded for public viewing going forward and how the public will be notified about the meetings.
D
Please provide dates for the next meetings scheduled.
Response
A
Meeting were held on the following dates:
13 January 2020
10 February 2020
8 June 2020
14 September 2020
19 October 2020
7 December 2020
15 February 2021
8 March 2021
12 March 2021
9 August 2021
B
All approved minutes are publicly available on www.gov.je therefore Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Health and Community Services Department Board (gov.je)
C
All approved minutes and decided future meeting dates are uploaded to the website. Please see link above.
D
The next meeting is scheduled for 9 November 2021.
Article applied
Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.
(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.
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