name: West Lothian Council
notes: The UK has multiple tiers of local government and not all local authorities have responsibility for education. This public authority is one of around 200 local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales which do have responsibilities for education. If you make a request to this authority, they might tell you that you need to complete a form on their website. The ICO have confirmed that whilst a public authority can request a form is filled in, you are not obliged to do this. By law, the authority has to provide a response to requests that they receive via WhatDoTheyKnow. If they ask you to fill in a form, you should challenge this.