Teacher attendance and absence for Hautlieu since the September 2024 (FOI)

​Request 696266992

I would like to see the data held for teacher attendance and absence for Hautlieu School since the September 2024 school term to date. With particular emphasis on specialist teachers attended their classes and where either no teacher has been present or a non specialist has covered.

For clarification “specialist teachers, I mean the teacher that is assigned to teacher that class and is appropriately qualified to do so. For example, someone assigned to teacher a psychology class would be a specialist and if they are unable to do so and a qualified music teacher is covering that class in their absence then that teacher is unqualified for that role.

Response

The Department has determined that to identify specialist teacher absence and those attending their classes and where either no teacher has been present or a non-specialist has covered would require extraction and manipulation of data to produce the new information.

A Scheduled Public Authority is not required to manipulate and create new data sets. It has been estimated that the cost of extracting the data would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.​