Department for Education
- Date 18 August 2020
- Sector Central government
- Decision(s) FOI 10: Upheld, FOI 40(2): Not upheld
The complainant has requested information from the Department for Education (“the DfE”) concerning figures of children of different ethnicities who were born into care at both a national level and a local level. The DfE provided suppressed data and redacted some figures lower than 10 at a national level, citing section 40 of the FOIA as its basis for doing so. The Commissioner’s decision is that the DfE has correctly withheld the information under section 40 of the FOIA but as it responded after 20 working days, it has breached section 10 of the FOIA. The Commissioner requires no further steps to be taken by the DfE.