Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for HCS, CYPES, IHE (FOI)

Request

A

Please provide the Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for Health and Community Services (HCS) from June 2021 to date. 

B

Please provide the Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for Education from June 2021 to date.

C

Please provide the Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for Growth, Housing and Environment (GHE) from June 2021 to date.

Response

A

The information requested from Health and Community Services is due for imminent publication in response to a separate Freedom of Information request. Therefore, Article 36 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

B and C

The information requested from Children, Young People, Education and Skills (CYPES), and Infrastructure, Housing and Environment (IHE) has been provided in Freedom of Information responses, published on www.gov.je on 14 March 2023:

Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for Education (FOI)

Serious Incidents Quarterly Reports for Infrastructure, Housing and Environment (FOI)

As this information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

Article 36 - Information intended for future publication

(1) Information is qualified exempt information if, at the time when the request for the

information is made, the information is being held by a public authority with a view to its

being published within 12 weeks of the date of the request.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground

must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant –

(a) of the date when the information will be published;

(b) of the manner in which it will be published; and

(c) by whom it will be published.

(3) In this Article, “published” means published –

(a) by a public authority; or

(b) by any other person.

Public Interest Test

Article 36 is a qualified exemption. As such, a public interest test has been conducted to determine whether, on balance, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.  

Public interest considerations favouring disclosure:

• disclosure of the information would support transparency and promote accountability to the general public. 

Public interest considerations favouring withholding the information: 

• it is intended to publish the requested information within 12 weeks on www.gov.je. The information is currently being prepared for publication and, therefore, it is not possible to release it at this stage.