Customer Care and Complaints Service

Children's Services & Learning Directorate

Southampton City Council

8^th Floor, Marland House

SOUTHAMPTON SO14 7PQ

Please ask for: Mark Oliphant FOI Ref: FOI/0910/108

Direct dial: 023 8083 3154 Fax: 023 8083 3815

Email: [email address]

C McEwan 19^th June 2009

Sent via email

Dear Sir or Madam

Information Request

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 05 June 2009. In your request, you have requested the following information:

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

Please find attached the information you have requested that has been provided to me for your response.

Please contact me again if you require any further assistance on this matter and I will do my best to provide relevant help and advice.

I am obliged to inform you that all material supplied to you including, layout, presentation, text, logos, icons, photos, and all material is copyright © Southampton City Council 19^th June 2009 unless otherwise stated.

Use of any material supplied in response to your Freedom of Information request including reproduction or transmission in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored on any retrieval system of any nature of any material contained in these pages may not be made without permission. No use of any material is authorised without the express written permission of the Solicitor to the Council. The supply of documents does not give you an automatic right to re-use the documents in a way that would infringe copyright.

If you have any complaints in respect of your information request, please write to the Complaints Officer:

Corporate Complaints Officer

Corporate Policy and Performance Division

Southampton City Council

Civic Centre

Southampton

SO14 7LT

Alternatively you can telephone 023 8083 3050. If your complaint is not resolved to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision.

The Information Commissioner's Office can be contacted by way of letter addressed to:

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Alternatively you can telephone: 01625 545 700.

Please contact me again if you require any further assistance on this matter and I will do my best to provide relevant help and advice.

Yours sincerely

Mark Oliphant

MARK OLIPHANT

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

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Response to Freedom of Information Request - Education Counsellors - for C McEwan

Your request was / the results are as follows:

1. Does your Local Authority presently employ Education Counsellors* (rather than `buying in' such a service from an external provider)?

Southampton City Council do not currently employ education counsellors

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

Please see above

3. If your Local Authority does not presently employ Education Counsellors have they done so in the past?

Southampton City Council have never employed education counsellors

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

Please see above

If you require this letter of future correspondence from us in

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do not hesitate to let us know.