Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Freedom of Information Act fully came into force on 1 January 2005. Norwich University of the Arts is guided by the following principles to:

• Be as open, transparent and helpful as possible with its information and to be proactive in making it available and accessible to its members and the public at large.
• Make responsible use of the exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act and to invoke them as a last, not first, resort.
• Disclose the requested information unless there is a clearly greater public interest in withholding it.
• Strive to exceed the applicant’s expectations when dealing with requests for information and complaints under the Act.

Our main obligations

We have two main responsibilities under the act:

• To produce a ‘Publication Scheme‘ — a guide to the information held by the University which is publicly available to anyone
• Dealing with individual requests for information