How many compromise agreements have been signed by teachers and Head teachers with a result of these members of staff losing or leaving their jobs since Sep 2004.

Dear Ms MacArthur

Acknowledgement of Information Request - Compromise agreements

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information received on 4th
November 2009. Your email is being considered and you will receive a
response to your request as soon as possible.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows authorities 20 working days,
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Yours sincerely

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Legal & Democratic Services
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London Borough of Havering
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Dear Ms MacArthur

Access to Information - Compromise Agreements

I refer to your recent request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Your request has been considered and the
information provided by Social Care & Learning is attached.

In accordance with the Act, this email also acts as a Refusal Notice and
details of the exemption applied is attached.

I apologise that your request cannot be met in full and trust the above is
of use to you.

You have the right of appeal against our decision. If you wish to appeal
please set out in writing your grounds of appeal and send to the above
email address. Please ensure that you quote our reference on any
correspondence to us.

I trust the information is of use to you and will close your request.

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which your request has been
handled you have the right to make a complaint. Please put the details in
writing and return to me at the above email address, your complaint will
then be dealt with in line with our corporate complaints procedure. You
also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the
following address:

Office of the Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700

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Yours sincerely

Mrs P Lynch

Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Town Hall
London Borough of Havering
Email: [2][Havering Borough Council request email]

Living Ambition - aiming for the highest quality of life in London
[3]www.havering.gov.uk/livingambition

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Dear Ms MacArthur

I acknowledge receipt of your email of appeal received 19th November
2009.

Your email is being considered as an appeal for an internal review of the
decisions made in the response to your request for information. This will
be dealt with in line with our Corporate Complaints Procedure and the
provisions of Section 45 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Information regarding our Corporate Complaints Procedure can also be found
on the Council*s website:

[1]www.havering.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=645

I am currently looking into the matter and will endeavour to respond
within 10 working days of receipt of your appeal, but if you have any
queries or concerns in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me

Further information regarding the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is also
available from the Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane
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SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
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Yours sincerely
Mrs P Lynch

Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Town Hall
London Borough of Havering
Email: [3][Havering Borough Council request email]

Living Ambition - aiming for the highest quality of life in London
[4]www.havering.gov.uk/livingambition

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Dear Ms MacArthur,

Review of Complaint/Appeal

I refer to your email dated 19th November 2009 regarding the above.

In line with the Corporate Complaints procedure, both Social Care
& Learning and Legal & Democratic Services have now reveiwed your
complaint regarding your request for information processed under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. The response is as follows:

Q1. Appeal Rejected - Due to the low number of the one group involved,
there is a strong possibility that by cross matching with other available
data publically available from other sources that individual(s) may be
identified.

Q4. In Part - Individual ages are personal data.
Age range of 33 - 56 years old.

I trust the above resolves your complaint and will close your
Complaint/Appeal.
You have the right of appeal against our decision to the information
Commissioner at the following address:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
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Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor
Information Governance Officer

Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Town Hall
London Borough of Havering
Email: [2][Havering Borough Council request email]

Living Ambition - aiming for the highest quality of life in London
[3]www.havering.gov.uk/livingambition

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Dear Mr Hastings,

Review of Complaint/Appeal

I refer to your email dated 24th November 2009 regarding the above.
In line with the Corporate Complaints procedure, Finance & Commerce have
now reveiw your complaint regarding your request for information processed
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and their response is as
follows:

'Computerised benefit records do not extract and collate data in relation
to asylum seekers. Therefore, the only way to see if there were any claims
from asylum seekers, would be to manually look at each individual
application form, of which, there are more than 20,000.
A benefit officer would then need to go through each application form to
check the status of the individual as to whether they are claiming asylum
and then a system check would be required to provide the information
requested.
This would clearly take over the 18 hours'.

I trust the above resolves your complaint and I will now close your
Complaint/Appeal.

You have the right of appeal against our decision to the Information
Commissioner at the following address:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House, Water lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire.
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
[1]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor
Information Governance Team

Information Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Town Hall
London Borough of Havering
Email: [2][Havering Borough Council request email]

Living Ambition - aiming for the highest quality of life in London
[3]www.havering.gov.uk/livingambition

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My apologies.
Veronica Taylor

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