Cost of home birth service (FOI)Cost of home birth service (FOI)
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​Request 677101511
How much does it cost to keep the home birth service running?
Why has the service for the last year been stop start?
When was the first time the service was suspended and please list the dates from 2024 when it was suspended and when it was back on.
Response
Information on the home birth service is available in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in February 2025, and through the States Assembly website, as linked below:
Homebirth provision in Jersey (FOI)
States Assembly | Letter - Assistant Minister for Health and Social Services to HSSP - Homebirth Suspension - 27.01.25​
As information is accessible elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
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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