Deaths of under 18 year olds (FOI)

​Request

Please can you confirm the number of deaths in the following age ranges for the last 10 years.

From stillborn after 24 weeks of pregnancy, to two years old

From stillborn after 24 weeks of pregnancy, to 18 years old

I do appreciate with the small numbers it may be identifying to have it year by year. If it possible to do it year by year please do, if not then two groups of five years of data will be acceptable.

Response

As the numbers are below 10 per annum, on this occasion we are unable to supply data on individual years. Disclosure control has been applied to small numbers under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 to protect the personal information of individuals.

The table below provides the number of deaths in five-year periods from 2009 to 2013 and 2014 to 2018 for those:

Aged 0 (+24 weeks gestation) to 2yrs

NB: Each number has been independently rounded to the nearest 10, less than 10 having been suppressed to avoid disclosure of individuals.

The table below provides the number of deaths in five-year periods from 2009 to 2013 and 2014 to 2018 for those:

Aged 0 (+24 weeks gestation) to 18 years

NB: Each number has been independently rounded to the nearest 10.

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.