Stress within Mental Health Services staff (FOI)

Request

Since 2015, how many people who work in all the government's mental health services have:

A

Been signed off with stress?

B

Attempted suicide?

C

Killed themselves?

D

How many working days in government mental health services have been lost due to stress in 2018 and 2019?

Response

A

B and C

Information is not held centrally (and any suicide attempts may not be recorded) and it is estimated that to review all staff files would take in excess of the 12.5 hours limit under Regulation 2(1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Any information held would be exempt under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 as individuals may be identified if these details were released.

D 

Articles applied

Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

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.