Dear Leah Trass

Thank you for your email received 10 October 2013, under the Official Information Act 1982. Your request has been forwarded to the appropriate officials at National office to respond. You may expect a response to be sent to you as soon as possible.
 
Regards
Official and Parliamentary Information team   |  Ministerial and Executive Services
Ministry of Social Development

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Dear Ms Trass,

 

Please find attached a letter relating to two emails received by the
Ministry on 16 October 2013 from Leigh Baillie, former employee of PANIC,
dated 20 July 2013 requesting under the Official Information Act 1982, the
following information:

 

·         How many settlement payments have been paid out to families due
to CYF errors outside of the normal  complaints process but in court
proceedings?

·          Of those, how many have had suppression orders placed on them
so that amounts cannot be disclosed?

·         How much was the highest amount awarded to an individual family
in either an out of court or in court settlement?

·         How much, over the last five years, has CYF spent on legal
representation in relation to its cases? 

·          How much, over the last five years, has CYF paid for others’
legal representation?

 

Legal Services and Child, Youth and Family have advised that they are
unable to provide a response to any of these questions without further
clarification from the requestor.

 

Please note contact details are provided in the attached letter. Given the
high number of requests that the Ministry has underway on behalf of PANIC,
I would appreciate it if you could contact me by 5pm on 15 November 2013
otherwise I will need to close these requests.

 

Regards

Official and Parliamentary Information team   |  Ministerial and
Executive Services

Ministry of Social Development

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Dear Leah Trass,

Thank you for your emails following up on your Official Information Act requests. The Ministry of Social Development accepts that these requests are outside the 20 working day timeframe and we are working to get the information to you as soon as possible. Thank you also for contacting us to clarify some of your questions, once again, we are working to get the responses to you as soon as possible.
 
Regards
Official and Parliamentary Information team   |  Ministerial and Executive Services
Ministry of Social Development

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