DATA PROTECTION ISSUES PAIN WAS INVOLVED WELL DONE JANE

[Alison J Stevens]

I refer to your complaint to the Information Commissioner concerning
the Social Services Department of Staffordshire County Council.

In my previous email I indicated that I would be approaching the
Council with regard to your complaint. The Council appeared to have
breached the sixth data protection principle by failing to properly
respond to the subject access request you made in February 2008. Also,
I wished to confirm that you had received all of the information to
which you are entitled, and to establish what information has been
withheld from you, and what action has been taken in relation to the
information which you consider to be inaccurate.

I received a response from the Council shortly after speaking to you
yesterday morning. With regard to your requests for information, I
understand that, to date, no information has been provided to you in
response to your February 2008 request, or any of the requests you have
made subsequently during the course of your contact with the Council.
(I should add that the Council’s records do not show what action took
place in 2008. However, in view of the fact that you continued to make
further requests I am assuming that you received no information in
response to your request at that time.)

It appears that whilst the files were to be presented to you on 16 June
2009, a last minute deci