Publication - FOI/EIR release

Counsellors in schools: FOI release

Published: 3 October 2019
Directorate: Learning Directorate
Topic: Education, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/201900003882
Date received: 5 September 2019
Date responded: 3 October 2019

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

You asked for all information related to the Scottish government’s work with COSCA on the introduction of school counsellors.

Response

The information you requested can be found in the following attachments.
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, ie names/contact details of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

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