Dear Ministry of Education,

In the Ombudsman's report on into the Ministry of Education's management of OIA processes regarding the Christchurch School closures the following comment was included from the Ministry of Education: "We believe that the Ministry OIA process is sound and one that ensures that relevant internal stakeholders are consulted before a decision is made on a request. However, the Ministry has requested Ministry of Social Development to undertake a peer review of our processes and we will undertake to consider implementing any improvements identified"

I would like to request:

* The terms of reference which MSD has received, if any, regarding the scope of their review of MoE OIA processes
* The date that MSD is due to deliver their report
* A copy of any report (or any other document) that MoE has received regarding MSD's peer review

The report also said that one of the measures that the Ministry would take to alleviate issues one and two of the Ombudsman report would be to update guidelines and insure that staff have sufficient guidance on how to implement various parts of the Official Information Act. I would like to request:

* A copy of any guidelines, instructions, manuals or other document that the Ministry of Education gave to staff to help them implement the Official Information Act prior to the Ombudsman's review
* A copy of any guidelines, instructions, manuals or other document that the Ministry of Education has created or drafted in response to the Ombudsman's report.

I imagine that a lot of documents that my OIA request will currently be being created. In order to alleviate this, could the Ministry consider:
a) consider documents caught in my request from the date that my request is processed, rather than only identifying documents that are in existence at the date my request is sent?
b) tell me the approximate dates that any future documents will be created, so that I can come back and request the documents later?

In the event that any documents are withheld I would like to request the titles, subject matter, and dates of those documents.

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Grainger

Dear Malcolm Bell,

My apologies for the lateness of my reply. I have been travelling over the last week, which made it difficult to write a reply. My address is:

Joshua Grainger
22 Taurima Street
Christchurch 8042

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Grainger