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Cite as: [2014] UKICO FS50483519
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Office for Standards in Education (Decision Notice) [2014] UKICO FS50483519 (08 January 2014)
Summary: The complainant has made a request for information including the training material used by Inspection Service Providers (ISPs) to train their additional inspectors. Ofsted provided links to published information which it believed answered part of his request together with explanations of its relationship with the ISPs. However it refused to provide the actual training material used by ISPs on the basis that it did not hold that material. The Commissioner-™s decision is that this training material is held by the ISPs on behalf of Ofsted and therefore, in accordance with section 3(2)(b), is held by Ofsted for the purposes of FOIA. Some additional inspectors also attend the training courses that Ofsted runs for its own staff. The training material used for such courses is clearly held by Ofsted and also falls within the scope of the request. By failing to provide the information which is held by the ISPs on behalf of Ofsted and that which is directly held by Ofsted it is in breach of section 1(1)(b). The Commissioner requires the public authority to communicate the information to the complainant or issue him with a refusal notice explaining its grounds for refusing his request in accordance with section 17. The information in question is identified in a confidential annex which has only been provided to Ofsted.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 3 - Complaint Upheld