Four Oaks Primary School

The complainant has requested various items of administrative information from Four Oaks Primary School (‘the School’). The School provided some information, advised it doesn’t hold some of the information and relied on sections 21 and 41 to withhold the remainder. These exemptions concern information accessible to the applicant by other means and information provided in confidence, respectively.During the Commissioner’s investigation, the School disclosed further information. The School has now confirmed that it’s withholding information from published meeting papers relevant to request 2 under sections 36, 38, 40(2) and 41 of FOIA. The first three of these concern the effective conduct of public affairs, health and safety and personal data, respectively. The Commissioner’s decision is as follows: The School is entitled to apply sections 36(2)(b)(i), 36(2)(b)(ii) and 36(2)(c) of FOIA to the information within scope of request 2. The information within scope of request 4 is exempt information under section 40(1) of FOIA. On the balance of probabilities, the School doesn’t hold any further information within scope of requests 1, 3 and 5.The School didn’t comply with sections 1(1) and 10(1) of FOIA as it didn’t communicate all the non-exempt information it holds within 20 working days of the request. It’s not necessary for the School to take any steps.