Grammer School Designated Transport areas reviews - Find a freedom of information request

Please provide details including minutes from meetings, internal correspondence including documents, emails and relating policy for.

1) When were Grammer School Designated Transport areas last reviewed?

2) Information providing how were these areas decided.

3) Equality impact assessment relating to the School Designated Transport area policy.

4) Information and outcomes of all appeals since 2016 relating to Grammer School funded travel outside of Designated Transport areas.

5) Information and outcomes of any judicial reviews relating to Grammer Schools snd Designated Transport areas.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. See following links available on the Council’s website:

https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=124&MId=4567&Ver=4

Agenda Item 62, including Appendix A

 https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=121&MId=4444&Ver=4

Agenda Item 56, including Appendix A

https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=124&MId=4569&Ver=4

Agenda Item 9, including Appendices 1,

A-E https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=124&MId=5256&Ver=4

Agenda Item 54, including Appendices A-C

2. Above information will indicate that the Grammar School Transport Policy, including DTAs, has been in force for over 30 years. The information above may include reference to how the DTAs were decided

3. EIAs relating to the Grammar School Transport Policy were undertaken as part of the review undertaken and referenced in the information provided in 1. Above See D & E from https://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=124&MId=4569&Ver=4

Agenda Item 9 These EIAs are related to the Review

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means

4. This information is NOT readily available for such appeals since 2016 without trawling through ALL appeals individually to identify which are related to the matter in question and which are related to other matters. To find and locate this information would take longer than the 18hrs allowed under section 12(1) of the FOI Act 2000.

5. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information.