FOI 18-21: Services international law expectations under the UN Convention of Rights of Persons Disabilities regarding disabled service users

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FoI 18-21

02 June 2021

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request of 26 April 2021, in which you requested the following information:

“A) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services international law expectations under the UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities regarding its disabled service users.

B) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services British law requirements to its disabled service users under the Human Rights Act of 1998 and the Equality Act of 2010 respectively.

C) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services Northern Irish law proscribed public sector equality duties to its disabled services users.

D) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services disability awareness, training, anticipatory action, adjustment provisions and access measurements in regards its disabled service users.

E) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services anti-direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation policy regarding its disabled service users.

F) A full copy of all recorded information detailing the services guidance to its employees for interaction with disabled service users with the following disabilities: Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, OCD, Depression, Dyslexia, and communicative or behavioural, social and communication disabilities.

G) A full copy of any recorded information detailing the services pro-disability progress from 1/1/2019 to 1/1/2020 regarding the services performance to its disabled service users.

H) A fully copy of all recorded information detailing the services present disability recruitment and promotion scheme to its disabled services users”

I wish to advise you that to comply with this request would exceed the fees limit under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). 

Section 12(1) of the FOIA provides:

“Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.”

We have estimated that, in order to comply with your request, staff would be required to consider a vast amount of data to extract the information requested and that this would exceed the fees limit as provided for under section 12(1) of the FOIA.

It may be helpful to discuss your request and determine if we can refine your request to make it specific to the information that you require in line with the fees limit.  I am happy to discuss this matter and if you wish to call me my direct number is (028) 90521147. 

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

With reference to the footnote of your correspondence, “all responses should be sent by female or transgender female personnel only”, the Information Standards team can no longer facilitate this request.

Yours sincerely,

INFORMATION STANDARDS