Ms. Fiona Macpherson

mailto:[FOI #20740 email]

Dear Ms Macpherson

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

Further to your Freedom of Information requests, I am writing to confirm that the Council has now completed its search for the information which you requested on 13^th October 2009.

The Council only holds records dating back to 2003, the answers detailed below relate from this date to current day.

The requested information is as follows:

1) The number of people with criminal convictions employed by Swale Borough Council

5 with spent or unspent convictions

2) The top ten job areas where people with criminal convictions are employed.

Of these 5, 4 are employed within the Cultural Services and Economic Development and 1 within IT & Customer Services.

3) The top ten types of conviction employees have.

These are motoring offences and assault.

4) The number of disclosures requested from the CRB.

The number of disclosures requested for 2008 and 2009 is 144.

5) The number of enhanced disclosures requested from the CRB.

All CRB's that are obtained by Swale Borough Council are enhanced disclosures.

6) A list of positions / job titles (or summary of areas of work) where a CRB check was

requested.

Please see attached list at the end of the letter.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.

Information you receive which is not subject to Crown Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. You must ensure that you gain their permission before reproducing any third party (non Crown Copyright) information.

I hope this answers your request satisfactorily but should you be dissatisfied with the information provided you should send your complaint to the Council's Freedom of Information Officer at Swale Borough Council, Swale House, East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 3HT. Should you remain dissatisfied you can appeal against the decision by contacting the Information Commissioner, FOI Compliance Team (complaints), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Dena Smart

Interim Head of Organisation Development

Posts with CRB requests

Dena Smart

Interim Head of Organisation Development

(01795) 417391

10^th November 2009