- Title or Description
- Mothballing of Nurseries and Classification of Inactive Settings
- FOI Number
- 20250699
- Date Received
- 02/06/2025
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
- Please provide all internal communications sent or received by Scottish Borders Council staff?using any official SBC digital platforms or accounts?concerning the potential or actual mothballing of nursery settings or the classification of such settings as inactive, between 1 June 2024 and the date of this request. This should include, but is not limited to: - Internal emails (including attachments) - Microsoft Teams messages and chats - Zoom chat logs (if applicable) - Internal memos or documents stored on platforms such as SharePoint or similar document management systems - Slack messages or equivalent digital messaging tools used internally by SBC Please note: I understand that names or personal identifiers may be redacted in line with data protection obligations. However, I am seeking full content and context of all communications relating to nursery mothballing or inactive status discussions, including planning, decision-making, and communications strategy. If any part of this request is unclear or would benefit from refinement to reduce cost or processing time,
- Response
- Scottish Borders Council has considered your request and concluded that the cost of complying with it would be more than 600. Under S12 (1) of FOISA 2002 Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to comply with a request that is estimated to exceed this cost. The estimated time of dealing with your request would involve over 40 hours of senior officer time. To comply with your request several officers would need to trawl through hundreds of emails to identify, extract and summarise the data. Therefore we are refusing your request.
