Can I Charge for Providing the Information?
It is expected that schools will make all items available to the public free of charge or in line with their existing charging policy. The FoI Act does not introduce any new requirements for making documents available in another language. However, you will want to ensure accessibility to the information and conform with existing legal requirements eg Disability Discrimination Act. If a school is making available a priced item such as printed publications, videos and bound information then a charge may be levied for that item. Where you have decided that there is a charge for an item this should be annotated with a £ sign in your publication scheme next to the description. If the request requires a lot of photocopying or large postage costs a school will need to make clear to enquirers that there could be a handling charge in line with any existing policy on charging.
