The Children and Families Truth Commission (CFTC) has published a guide showing parents, children and family members going through child protection processes how to access personal information about them.
The guide has been written by Michele Simmons, who is a mother with experience of the care system and the lead for the commission.
The commission would like to thank Michele for writing this excellent guide, and her amazing partner Jason for creating the artwork and formatting the guide.
As part of its role the commission is inviting families and children to produce guides which will be shared across the country, to help and support other families going through the child protection system.
You can access the guide on the commission’s website, or click on the image below.
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I would say dont expect you will get all the information you request in a SAR as they have get out clauses to deny specific information.
We submitted a SAR to the council via the advice of a family court Barrister. we got 4 large binders of files which had around 70% redacted with large blacked out areas. the other 30% contained general information that was of no any help to us.
If the council dont want you to see something that could land them in hot water they will redact it.
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Just tried to access the guide and its been removed.
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It states
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This document has been removed from Scribd.”
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That’s funny, Michele said the same thing. I can still see it. Will see what is going on.
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this document has been removed from Scribd.
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Does this link work for you? https://www.scribd.com/document/576501857/Guide-To-Making-A-Subject-Access-Request-SAR
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Still states. Removed.
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Okay, it still works for me after signing out of Scribd and back in again. Will email the team there.
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no, Deletion notice
The document Guide To Making A Subject Access Request (SAR) has been deleted.
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Can you access this link? It’s the rights booklet, just checking to see if there’s more than one issue: https://www.scribd.com/document/540849076/Children-and-Their-Families-Have-Rights
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yes i can see that
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Thank you. I’ve tweeted Scribd Support to find out what’s going on.
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also both links lead to scribd?
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Not for me, which is also odd.
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I think the issue might be that the platform thinks there is a copyright issue as Michele wrote it, without realising she is part of the commission, so will delete the guide and upload again…
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Do these links work for everyone?
https://www.scribd.com/document/576591678/Guide-To-Making-A-Subject-Access-Request
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no, Notice
This document has been removed from Scribd.
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UPDATE: Several readers have said they can’t access the guide on Scribd, so while we sort that out with the platform, we have temporarily housed Michele’s brilliant guide on RR, so anyone who would like to read it now can do so. Please click on the image in the post to access the guide. Thank you.
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Hi everyone the issue has been resolved – this is what Scribd had to say:
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The links are now all working.
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I am so happy for everyone that the link is working now. Perseverance paid off. Well done Natasha and thank you. So sorry it has been a nightmare for you hun đŸ˜˜ Xxxx
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No worries at all, just really glad Scribd were so efficient – thank you for your amazing guide xxxxxxxx
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Welcome anytime Xxxxxxxx
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I am the UK’s leading Court Precedent for Vexatious Cases and the first UK Citizen to be banned from using the FOIA. I wonder how many Parents have had their FOIA’s refused under section 14/1 VEXATIOUS. I do believe the ICO have been acting in concert with the UK Government for over decade to pervert the FOIA ERIA . I would be happy to assist your campaign from a FOI Point of view. Michelle has my contact details.
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My FOIR was refused under section 31 i think which stated – to release the data to the requester could cause serious psychological harm.
complete nonsense of course as its the not releasing the data that causes the most harm. its all in their best interests not the parents. As usual. Council solicitors are the worst of the worst for doing whatever they like because they know you wont get anything done about it. 10 downing st know all too well what they are doing yet turn a blind eye. ive believe the inter-agency adoption fees paid to councils for adopting children are behind all the corruption.
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I wonder how many parents have had good results from a SAR. in my experience the council simply redacted everything they didnt want us to see which amounted to around 70% from 4 binders full of information.
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