Middlesbrough Council

The complainant requested information about out of hours calls to deal with safeguarding matters. Middlesbrough Council (the Council) initially stated that it did not hold the information requested. At the time of its internal review the Council disclosed some of the information requested and stated that other information was not held. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Council breached section 10 in its handling of the request. The Commissioner does not require any steps to be taken.