Dear Mr. Kent Blanco,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated with tracking #CWC-822589081343 via CWC e-FOI Portal on September 26, 2021 at 04:08 P.M. under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your request
You asked data on number of reported cases on violence against children and reported cases of children suicide in Batangas or in any province in CALABARZON from March 2020 to September 2021 for your research and development article.
Response to your request
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance this Office does not have the information that you have requested because the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) is not a direct implementing agency. The CWC is the focal inter-agency body of the Philippine Government for Children. It is mandated to coordinate the implementation and enforcement of all laws; formulate, monitor and evaluate policies, programs and measures for children.
Available information only is national and regional data on child abuse and a report on violence against children based in 2015 National Baseline Study on Violence Against Children (Source: Quick Data of Children’s Situation During the Covid-19 Pandemic, published on September 2020 and from January 2020 to April 2021). The data are accessible online at the CWC website with link address www.cwc.gov.ph.
However, you may wish to contact the following agencies/organizations who may be able to help you:
1. For data on number of reported cases on violence against children and mber of reported cases of children suicide in Batangas or in any province in CALABARZON, please send your request directly to the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) addressed to Honorable Rolando Joselito Delizo Bautista, Secretary of the DSWD at
[email protected] or Ms. Myrna Reyes, FOI Receiving Officer and Head of Records and Archives Management Division at
[email protected].
2. In terms of data on number of reported cases on violence against children in Batangas or in any province in CALABARZON, please send your request directly to the Philippine National Police (PNP) addressed to Police Brigadier General Alessandro Abella, Chief, Women and Children's Protection Center (WCPC) at
[email protected].
3. Regarding the number of reported cases of children suicide in Batangas or in any province in CALABARZON, please send your request directly to the Department of Health (DOH) addressed to Ms. April Rhea M. Molina, FOI Receiving Officer at
[email protected]
The DOH might have information on cases of children suicide because they have a list of government hospitals under their stewardship.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to the Executive Director of CWC, Mary Mitzi Cajayon-Uy with e-mail address
[email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result, within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
JOSEF ANDREW MENDOZA
Deputy Executive Director
FOI Decision Maker
