Information Commissioner's Office

Office for Standards in Education

15 June 2016, Education (College)

The complainant requested from the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (“Ofsted”) information about the inspection of a training organisation. Ofsted disclosed some information to the complainant on the basis that it was his personal data. It applied section 40(1) to this information. It refused to provide the remaining information, citing the exemptions in sections 31 and 33. The Commissioner’s decision is that Ofsted has correctly applied section 40(1) to the information that it has already disclosed to the complainant and that it has correctly applied section 31 to the remaining information. He therefore does not require it to take any further steps to ensure compliance with the legislation.

FOI 31: Not upheld FOI 40: Not upheld