freedom of information act 2000

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides public access to information held by public authorities.
It does this in two ways:
  • public authorities are obliged to publish certain information about their activities; and
  • members of the public are entitled to request information from public authorities.
The Act covers any recorded information that is held by a public authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by UK-wide public authorities based in Scotland. Information held by Scottish public authorities is covered by Scotland’s own Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Public authorities include government departments, local authorities, the NHS, state schools and police forces. However, the Act does not necessarily cover every organisation that receives public money. For example, it does not cover some charities that receive grants and certain private sector organisations that perform public functions.
Recorded information includes printed documents, computer files, letters, emails, photographs, and sound or video recordings.
The Act does not give people access to their own personal data (information about themselves) such as their health records or credit reference file. If a member of the public wants to see information that a public authority holds about them, they should make a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

lo4, be able to use it tools to produce management information

Image
Tools database A database is a collection of  information  that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated. artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field that has a long history but is still constantly and actively growing and changing. In this course, you’ll learn the basics of modern AI as well as some of the representative applications of AI. Along the way, we also hope to excite you about the numerous applications and huge possibilities in the field of AI, which continues to expand human capability beyond our imagination. spreadsheets A spreadsheet is a sheet of paper that shows accounting or other data in rows and columns; a spreadsheet is also a computer  application program  that simulates a physical spreadsheet by capturing, displaying, and manipulating  data  arranged in rows and columns. The spreadsheet is one of the most popular uses of the personal computer. internet the  Internet  was initially develo
Read more

computer codes of pratice

here's a sample of a code of practice for a business. feel free to adapt adapt and use it for your own organization. ensure that you check it with your legal department or legal advisor before establishing and issuing a code of practice, as this type of document will almost certainly have contractual implications for your organization. involving customers in the drafting of a code practice is also useful. during world war ll, the germans used enigma, a cipher machine, to develop unbreakable codes for sending messages. enigma's settings offered 158,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible solutions yet the allies were eventually able to crack code. Accesss computing facilities are provided by uodit for the university as a whole and by schools and departments for their members access to facilities is normally arranged by the allocation of a unique user identifier (often called a username or login name). for some facilities the presentation of a university ID card or other form of
Read more