Children transferred to care in UK since 2015 (FOI)

Request 685616495

1. On how many occasions have children in Jersey been transferred to care in the UK in each of the last ten years? 

2. What is the total cost of doing this?

Clarification:

The requestor has clarified that they would like data on children transferred to the UK for health reasons for hospital, Fostering and Adoptions and CAMHS referrals. 

Child prisoners - i.e. those sentenced to youth detention.

I was actually thinking about child prisoners - i.e. those sentenced to youth detention. But now you mention it could I have figures for all three categories you mentioned as well?  

Let me know if we are going to hit 12.5 hours and I will put in the requests individually.

Response

1. A total of seven individuals under the age of 18 were transferred to care in the UK under Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the last 10 years. 

Disclosure control has been applied in relation to youth detention and fostering and adoption to protect the privacy of individuals and numbers fewer than five.  The Department have determined that to disclose the exact number would likely breach the privacy of individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.

2. This information is not held in recorded form. To provide an answer to the request would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce new information and would require analysis of each individual. This would take in excess of 12.5 working hours as this information is not held in a format that we can report from.

A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. It has been estimated that the cost of extracting the data would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

​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.​