Common Purpose

rhys owen made this Freedom of Information request to Kirklees Borough Council

Waiting for an internal review by Kirklees Borough Council of their handling of this request.

From: rhys owen

12 January 2010

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Could you please disclose the following information;

1. How many Kirklees employee's, representatives and elected
officials have received training from common purpose, and what are
their roles within the council?

2. Copies of any and all contracts made with common purpose,
including the documentation received by yourselves in common
purpose tendering its services to you, also copies of all invoices
relating to this group.

3. The details of the process you follow for selecting employees to
undertake common purpose training.

4. The specific training needs of the employees who have undertaken
common purpose training, and details and evidence of how said
training has helped them within their working capacity.

Please include all data available, dating back to 2000.

Yours faithfully,

rhys owen

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Kirklees Borough Council

14 January 2010

Thank you for your recent enquiry

I have passed this onto the relevant services and will contact you again once replies have been received

Regards

Information Access Team

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From: rhys owen

13 February 2010

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Kirklees Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Common Purpose'.

I placed the request on 12/01/2010. By law, the authority should
have normally responded promptly, and by 09/02/2010.

I would like to know what liability Kirklees Borough Council owes
me for depriving me of my right to this information.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Yours faithfully,

rhys owen

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Kirklees Borough Council

13 February 2010

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From: rhys owen

9 March 2010

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Kirklees Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Common Purpose'.

despite repeated phone calls to kirklees, this request remains
unanswered. Is this the level of ignorance which resides within
this local 'authority', that they feel they are above the rule of
the statues which govern them?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Yours faithfully,

rhys owen

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From: rhys owen

26 April 2010

Dear Kirklees Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Kirklees Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Common Purpose'.

Full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available
on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Yours faithfully,

rhys owen

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From: Leif Wilks
Kirklees Borough Council

11 May 2010

Dear Mr Owen

My apologies for not having been able to respond earlier.

About four years ago the Council decided it was no longer going to
nominate staff for the Common Purpose programme, and while there may well
be a limited amount of detailed information still held, it is clear that
with the passage of time and changes in organization and personnel, the
resource necessary to determine what information is still held and to
locate and extract it would, with time already spent, exceed the 18 hours
prescribed in the Fees Regulations as the upper limit beyond which we are
not required to comply with a request.

The information that can be extracted from the Council's payments system
indicates that approximately 42 employees and elected members attended
Common Purpose training, but it is not possible to derive more precise
information from that source.

There is no written selection process: a person would be identified as a
suitable candidate by their manager during their normal Performance Review
and development meetings.

Any one person's training needs are of course personal data, and even if
the information was still held it would be refused under section 40 of the
Freedom of Information Act which exempts personal data.

I am sorry that we cannot provide any further information, but after a
number of years there is no longer any operational need for such
information to be held in a readily accessible form.

Should you wish to appeal against this decision that determining what
information may be held would exceed the cost limit, you should contact
the Monitoring Officer, the Head of Legal services,, Civic Centre 3,
Market Street, Huddersfield HD1 2TG.

If you are dissatisfied with her decision you have the right to apply to
the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF for a decision as to whether your request has been
handled in accordance with Part 1 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

The Information Access Team

Kirklees Council

Performance & Commmunication

2nd floor Civic Centre 3

Market Street

Huddersfield

HD1 2YZ

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stygian left an annotation (30 March 2011)

This request may now be updated.

1. Identify all those who attended Common Purpose training. Recent case precedence means that they can now be identified. In any case, the application forms for Common Purpose training make it clear that attendees can expect that their names, employers and positions can be used by Common Purpose for publicity purposes.
2. Identify, in each case, the manager who proposed each prospective candidate to attend a Common Purpose course.
3. In the case of elected members, they are front-facing members anyway, so there can be no objection to their being identified. For elected members, the person proposing each should be identified.
4. Kirklees to provide details, if applicable, of any Your Turn projects delivered by Common Purpose during the past four years.

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