Family courts data 2022 - 2025

​Request 822433657

Please supply data surrounding Family Courts and removal of children, state care, and the cost of this to the public purse, for the years 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025,

Response

Information in relation to Family Courts and removal of children, state care, and the cost of this to the public purse, for the requested years is not held in a format that allows extraction without significant interrogation of individual case files. This would take more than the 12.5 hour limit afforded by the Freedom of information law and as such Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is 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.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.