Consultancy work undertaken by IMPOWER and New Networks (FOI)

Request

Can you tell me what posts / consultancies [redacted] (either as IMPOWER, and / or New Networks or under her own or any other title) has undertaken for Jersey States;

A

Previously

B

Currently

C

With dates if possible

Response

A 

In 2018 and 2019, [redacted] undertook work in relation to the following areas:

• the offer for children in care

• the entitlement for care leavers

• the framework and model for prevention and early intervention (right help right time)

• business case for support for Jersey Cares

• support for the development of the target operating model (Children, Young People, Education and Skills)

• other consultancy support (eg contributing to proof of concept work in relation to a service model for mothers susceptible to multiple removals of children at birth

B

Advising on the establishment, scoping and delivery planning for the Government of Jersey “Shaping Demand” efficiency programme

C

[Redacted] work has been commissioned on the basis of between two to three days / week depending upon demand.

The department has concluded that further information, as requested, is not held in a single recorded form. In order to answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from various sources. Aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do the work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

Article applied

Article 16 A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.