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URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKICO/2019/fs50777380.html
Cite as: [2019] UKICO fs50777380

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St. Andrew’s CE Primary School

The complainant has requested information on staff turnover, compromise agreements, disciplinary investigations, governor appointments, pupil turnover and reasons for pupil withdrawal. St. Andrew’s Primary School disclosed some information but withheld other information on the basis of section 40(2) of the FOIA. The School also refused to confirm or deny if some information was held under section 40(5B)(a)(i). During the investigation the School also clarified that any reasons for pupil withdrawal were not held. The Commissioner’s decision is that the School was correct to neither confirm nor deny if it held information on staff leaving with compromise agreements or settlement. The Commissioner also finds that the School does not hold information on reasons for pupil withdrawals. However, whilst the Commissioner accepts that the number of pupils withdrawn from the school roll for several school years is personal data she has not found that disclosing this would breach any of the data protection principles. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the numbers of children withdrawn from Year 3 of the School during the period September 2017 to May 2018 along with the number of children in Year 3 where the School had been notified they would be withdrawn and the same information for Year 2 of the academic year 2016-2017 and Year 1 2015-2016.

FOI 40: Complaint partly upheld FOI 1: Complaint not upheld

Decision notice: fs50777380