Correspondence regarding Hope House (FOI)

Request

I would like to see the content of any e-mail communications that were made in relation to Hope House that was run by the Silkworth Charity Group between the following senior CYPES officials and the Children's Minister between the periods 01 March 2021 to 30 September 2021.

The senior officials concerned are:

Mark Rogers - previous Director General CYPES

Susan Devlin - Director CYPES

Mark Owers - Director CYPES

Scott Wickenden - Childrens Minister

I believe that any information that was shared by e-mail between said officials should be public information and due to the closure of the said facility 'Hope House', I would like to know if there was any prior knowledge or wish for this facility not to be supported by Government.

Response

A previous Freedom of Information request was published in August 2021:

Correspondence regarding Hope House and Silkworth Lodge (FOI)

The Scheduled Public Authority neither confirms nor denies holding the information requested and Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Articles Applied

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information,

it must inform the applicant accordingly.

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.