Information Commissioner's Office

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust

17 August 2015, Health (NHS)

The complainant has requested the social care records of her late mother. The Trust volunteered to provide some information relating to the funding of arrangements of her mother’s care outside the scope of FOIA. However it refused to provide a full copy of the social care records under section 40 – personal information, and section 41 – information provided in confidence. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Trust is entitled to rely on section 41 to withhold the information. In light of this the Commissioner has not considered the Trust’s application of section 40. The Commissioner does not require the Trust to any further action in this matter.

FOI 41: Not upheld