Dear Sir or Madam,

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

Yours faithfully,

C McEwan

Dear C. McEwan Thank you for your request asking for information
relating to Education Counsellors. The application was received on
8 June 2009 and allocated the reference IMT0920CM. The Council will
seek to provide the information that you have requested within the
next 20 working days or let you know from where else it can be
obtained. We may not be able to provide everything if we do not
hold the information, or if an exemption to releasing the
information applies. Information is often provided free of charge,
but if there could be a fee for processing and delivering the
information to you this will notified to you before we progress. We
will usually provide the information in either an electronic or
paper format according to how you contacted us. If you require the
information in another specific format please contact me to discuss
your needs. Any future correspondence or questions you may have in
relation to this matter should be sent to me. Yours sincerely,
Rebecca Shearing

Dear C McEwen Your application for information that was received by
the Council on 6 June has now been considered and this letter is a
full response to that application.

Your request was to be supplied with the following and the response
follows each question: " 1. Does your Local Authority presently
employ Education Counsellors* (rather than ‘buying in’ such a
service from an external provider)?

Yes

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

No

• The date when they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

Not applicable

• Whether they are employed on Teachers Terms and Conditions of
Employment

No

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

Not applicable

4. If the answer to Question 3 is ‘yes’, please state for each
School Counsellor employed by the Local Authority since 31 March
2004:

Not applicable

• Whether they were deemed to be eligible to join the Teachers
Pension Scheme and

Not applicable

• When they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

Not applicable

* Education Counsellors meaning those employed to support pupils in
education"

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Yours sincerely

P Maber-Gill