Support for grant-aided and special schools
An order under section 5 of the Act brought grant-aided and special schools within the scope of FOI from 1 September 2016. Together with the City of Edinburgh Council, we delivered a training event on 25 May 2016 to help the new bodies prepare. Below are the training materials from the event.
Delegate packs
The delegate packs contained:
Event programme
Setting up your FOI function: Guidance for Scottish public authorities new to FOI
Your Right To Know - A Guide to FOI in Scotland
Presentations
Introduction to FOI duties
Publishing information
Responding to information requests and reviews
Handout: is this an information request?
Requests for personal information
Publication schemes
The schools were required to comply with the publication scheme duty by 1 September 2016, the commencement date for the section 5 order. The Commissioner strongly recommended that the schools adopt the Model Publication Scheme.
To do so, they must:
- produce and publish a Guide to Information, and
- complete and send a Notification Form to the Commissioner
You can download the Model Publication Scheme, a template Guide to Information for grant-aided and special schools and the notification form from the Publication Scheme Resources page.
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