Education Counsellors Supporting Pupils in Education Information

Re: FOI request - Ref FI/09/196

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request for information.
I have asked the relevant officers of the Authority to commence enquiries
immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request
under the FOI Act and to supply any which is found to me.

Your request has to be processed within a maximum of 20 working days,
which means the Council must provide you with the information it has
(assuming no exemptions are claimed) by 3 July 2009. If it is possible to
provide you with the information within that timescale then that will be
done.

Should you have any queries about this matter please don’t hesitate to
contact me.

Kind regards
Ken Hamer
Constitution Officer
01642 444626

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
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Re: FOI request - Ref FI/09/195

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request for information.
I have asked the relevant officers of the Authority to commence enquiries
immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request
under the FOI Act and to supply any which is found to me.

Your request has to be processed within a maximum of 20 working days,
which means the Council must provide you with the information it has
(assuming no exemptions are claimed) by 3 July 2009. If it is possible to
provide you with the information within that timescale then that will be
done.

Should you have any queries about this matter please don’t hesitate to
contact me.

Kind regards
Ken Hamer
Constitution Officer
01642 444626

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
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Re FI 09 196

Further to my acknowledgement of your request, I have received some
information from the Director of Adult and Children's Services. I can
confirm we do hold this information.

You asked:

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

YES - the following replies relate to those counsellors employed by the
Local Authority. Some schools are believed to employ their own counsellors
and questions would need to be directed to them in relation to their
conditions of service.

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

They are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme

*** The date when they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

N/a
*** Whether they are employed on Teachers Terms and Conditions of
Employment

No - they have been employed on local government officers terms.

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

N/a

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

N/a

*** When they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

N/a

I hope that this satisfies your request for information. If you are not
satisfied with how your request has been dealt with then you are free to
make a complaint either to the Council or to the Information Commissioner.
You will find details of the complaints procedure on the Council's Website
at
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/YrCou...
(alternatively by using the A-Z Index from the home page). The Information
Commissioner is an independent person who has responsibility for
overseeing the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act
2000. More details can be obtained from the Information Commissioner***s
website at [1]www.ico.gov.uk .

Yours sincerely
FOI Officer

C McEwan
<[FOI #12939 email]> To: FOI requests at Redcar &
Cleveland Council
05/06/2009 14:16 <[Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council request email]>
cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information
request - Education Counsellors Supporting
Pupils in Education Information

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

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