03 January 2023
Dear Kenneth Alebio,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated 05 December 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your request
1. The number and list of DSWD-accredited orphanages or shelters for abandoned and neglected children in Cebu Province and Cebu City
2. Statistics of the children housed in licensed child care institutions, orphanages, and shelters and data on their educational achievement, employment, and criminal justice involvement
3. Codes, rules, regulations for the planning and layout of an orphanage or children's shelter
Response to your request
We shall partially grant your request and we shall refer your request with respect to this matter to the proper DSWD office. DSWD has limited information of orphaned Children that are staying in residential care facilities run by DSWD.
It is the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that may have the data you require. Under Republic Act 10625 (the “Philippine Statistical Act of 2013”), the PSA is the government agency responsible for preparing and conducting periodic censuses on population, housing, agriculture, fisheries, business, industry and other sectors of the economy. Hence, you may wish to direct your request to the PSA by submitting a request to the PSA via this portal. You may also contact the PSA by telephone at 462-6600 locals 839, 833 and 834 or via email at
[email protected].
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 Eduardo M. Punay, Officer-In-Charge at DSWD-Central Office, IBP Road Batasan Pambansa Complex, Constitution Hills, Quezon City. 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 the 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,
Atty. Megan Therese Y. Manahan
FOI Decision Maker
