Pre-Requisites

These FOI Awareness Events will cover the following:

 

·         - Overview of the FOI Act

·        -  How to identify a valid FOI request

·         - Staff responsibilities

·         - How to manage records effectively

·         - Obligations to third parties

·         - Circumstances whereby personal data maydisclosed

·         - Copyright, intellectual property and datasets

·         - Common exemptions

 

These sessions would be equally valuable to:

·        Teams or individuals who routinely provideinformation for FOI requests

·        Staff responsible for collating and recordingdata or official information

·        Staff wanting to learn more about FOI