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Our Ref ACE255134
Your Ref
Please ask for Rachael Cowin
Direct Dial 01224 664630
Email: [email address]
Mark Walker
[FOI #20555 email]
5 November 2009
If you have difficulty reading this document please contact Rachael Cowin on 01224 664630.
Dear Mr Walker
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - (“The Act”)
I refer to your request for information from the Council dated 12 October 2009 concerning the following information:
1. Has your authority ever found a member of the BNP or any other political Party guilty of a disciplinary offence related to their Party membership whilst teaching in the last three years? If so please give information as to when and how many.
2. Has any parent complained to you regarding the Party membership of any employee or the expression of political views within School classrooms under your authority during the last three years?
3. What safeguards do you currently have in place to prevent members of any political Party promoting their views within Schools?
In the last three years no teachers within Aberdeenshire have been subject to disciplinary procedures relating to political party membership.
We have no records of any complaints from parents regarding the party membership of any employee or the expression of political views within school classrooms under our authority during the last three years.
Whilst we do not have a specific policy relating to this area, we require all of our employees to treat anyone that they come into contact with in their capacity as an Aberdeenshire Council employee with dignity and respect. We have a number of wider policies covering acceptable behaviour including Dignity of the Individual policy and Equality and Diversity policy. These operate in conjunction with other policies such as Disciplinary, Grievance and Work Performance Ability. In addition each school has individual policies relating to acceptable behaviour.
All of our teachers are required to be registered with GTCS and as such we require them to follow the GTCS Code of Professionalism and Conduct.
Please contact me as the officer responsible for responding to your request if you have any further queries.
If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this response, please refer to the further information attached.
Yours sincerely,
Rachael Cowin
Information, Communication and Records Management Officer
Further Information:
Aberdeenshire Council's Review Procedure under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:-
If you wish Aberdeenshire Council to review its actions and/or decisions with respect to your Request for Information, you should contact:-
Alastair Nicol,
Principal Committee Officer,
Aberdeenshire Council,
Woodhill House,
Westburn Road,
Aberdeen AB16 5GB;
(e-mail [email address]):
no later than 40 days after you receive the Notice intimating the decision that you want to have reviewed.
Your request for review must be in writing or in another form which has some permanency and is capable of being used for subsequent reference (e.g. audio/video tape recording). You must state your name and address for correspondence. You must also give details of the information which you originally requested and the reasons why you are dissatisfied with the way in which your application for information has been dealt with.
The Principal Committee Officer will arrange for your application for review to be considered by the Review Panel. The Review Panel will write to you informing you of its decision by not later than twenty working days after receipt of your request for a review. The Review Panel will also provide you with a statement of its reasons for arriving at the decision it has made.
Your Right to Complain to the Scottish Information Commissioner:
If you are dissatisfied with the Review Panel's decision, you may appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner.
An appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner must be made within six months, specifying:-
the Request for Information to which the requirement for review by relates;
the reasons for your dissatisfaction with the review decision;
The Scottish Information Commissioner can be contacted at:-
Scottish Information Commissioner,
Kinburn Castle,
Doubledykes Road,
St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS
Telephone - 01334 464610;
Fax - 01334 464611;
Email - enquiries@its publicknowledge.info
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