Correspondence between the Chief Minister and the Children's Commissioner (FOI)

Please kindly provide all correspondence between the Chief Minister, Senator John Le Fondré, and the Children's Commissioner, Deborah McMillan, between 29 March and 1 July.

Please use the following search terms: "covid-19", "emergency", "concern", "complaint", "schools", "support", "UNCRC", "care", "placement".

Searches were undertaken on the email accounts of Senator John Le Fondre and Deborah McMillan for the period requested and using the key words listed. No emails were found.

A copy of a letter sent to the Children’s Commissioner within the period requested is available at the following link:
Letter to the Children's Commissioner from the Chief Minister

The attachment has been redacted in accordance with the Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

(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.