11 October 2016, Local government (District council)
The complainant has requested information concerning Haroon Bhatti, a five year old boy who was murdered by his father in 2012. Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council (‘the Council’) says it holds the requested information but that it holds it on behalf of Wakefield District Safeguarding Children Board (WDSCB). It says that since WDSCB is not a public authority for the purposes of the FOIA, the Council cannot be said to hold the information under section 1(1) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council does not hold the requested information for the purposes of the FOIA.
FOI 1: Not upheld