Subject: Request for information from Children and Families department
Dear Ms Tee
I would be very grateful if you could kindly supply the following information:
Pupil rolls, by year from 2000 to 2007, for all Edinburgh primary and secondary schools
Projections for future pupil rolls up to 2020
The Children and Families definition of school “capacity” ie what factors are used and how you calculate the capacity of a school
How you assessed the usage of a school eg do you use actual school lets, or requests made to the school lets department
What input Children and Families has made to the Edinburgh City Plan consultation process over the last three years
A copy of the Children and Families budget for 2005-6 and 2006-7
A breakdown of the deficit, explaining the causes of the deficit.
The budget, projected and actual, for funding children with additional support needs
I look forward to receiving this information at your earliest convenience – I appreciate some parts of my request will be more readily available than others and I would be glad to receive any information as it comes forward.
Our organisation is endeavouring to ensure that we have as much factual information before us as is possible – I sincerely hope that your department will help us in this endeavour. We are committed to ensuring an informed debate on the school closures and falling pupil rolls issue.
I make this request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act although I feel sure that much of this information is publicly available anyway.
Yours sincerely
Tina Woolnough
Chair, Parents in Partnership
35 Craigleith View
Edinburgh EH4 3JY
