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Pravina Chandarana
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0116 252 7016
E-mail: [email address]
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Ref:
FOI
2785
Date:
26th August 2009
C McEwan
[FOI #12911 email]
Dear C McEwan
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Your request for information has now been considered and the Council’s
response to your questions is shown below.
You asked:
1. Does your Local Authority presently employ Education
Counsellors* (rather than ‘buying in’ such a service from an
external provider)?
2. If the answer to Question 1 is ‘yes’, please state for each
Education Counsellor employed by the Local Authority:
• Whether they have been deemed to be eligible to join the Teachers
Pension Scheme and
• The date when they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme
• Whether they are employed on Teachers Terms and Conditions of
Employment
3. If your Local Authority does not presently employ Education
Counsellors have they done so in the past?
4. If the answer to Question 3 is ‘yes’, please state for each
School Counsellor employed by the Local Authority since 31 March
2004:
• Whether they were deemed to be eligible to join the Teachers
Pension Scheme and
• When they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme
* Education Counsellors meaning those employed to support pupils in
education. My only definition is that they are employed as specialist
education/school counsellors with a counselling qualification.
They are not employed to undertake any other function but as
specialist counsellors.
The answer on behalf of Primary Behaviour Support Service, Secondary
Behaviour Support Service, the Education Welfare Service and
Psychology Service, is no, not now or previously. Although schools use
counsellors, the local authority does not directly employ them.
The legislation allows you to use the information supplied for your own
personal use. Please be aware that any commercial or other use, for example
publication, sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the
copyright holder's prior permission.
Not all the information that is supplied which is covered by copyright will be
the Council's copyright, for example it may be the copyright of a government
department or another Council. You should seek either the Council’s consent
or their consent as appropriate. The Council is willing to advise you of any
such potential issues on request. In order to make a request to re-use the
information please contact the Head of Information Governance using the
details below.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please write to:
Head of Information Governance Information Services Leicester City Council,
FREEPOST (LE985/33) New Walk Centre, LEICESTER LE1 6ZG e-mail:
[email address]
Your request for internal review should be submitted within 40 (forty) working
days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received after this
time will only be considered at the Council’s absolute discretion.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Please be aware that the Information Commissioner does not normally
consider appeals or complaints until the internal appeals and complaints
processes of the public authority which is answering the request have been
exhausted. You are therefore advised to complain or appeal to Head of
Information Governance before contacting the Commissioner.
Yours sincerely
Pravina Chandarana
Information Governance Consultant
Information Services
