LEA School Governors

Dear Sir

Thank you for your request for information held by the Council under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which was received today.

We will contact you again once it has been ascertained what data is held by
Birmingham City Council. In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if
that is the case, we will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to
you, and you will be required to pay before we will proceed to deal with
your request.

If you require any further information or are not happy with our response
please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the reference number above in
any future communications.

Yours sincerely

Steve Cullen

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

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request will be held on our database and may also be held within manual
records for a period of 2 years from the date Birmingham City Council
received your request. Any personal data that you provide to Birmingham
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Data Protection Act 1998.

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should notify the City Council in writing to seek approval or agree terms
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Dear Sir
Further to your Freedom of Information Request dated 7/10/2009 requesting
information.
We are still in the process of gathering and reviewing the relevant
information, therefore we wish to apologies for the delay in responding to
your request.

We can assure you as soon as the data is available and we are in a position
to respond to you we will contact you.
Once again we do apologies for the delay.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if i can be of any further assistant.

Could you also confirm for me that your response is in connection to
FOI:3419. This would have been stated in the subject box in receipt to
your acknowledgement email dated 7/10/2009.

Many thanks

Melanie Sewell
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Children Young People & Families Directorate
Tel: 464-4591

Paul Burke
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cc
04/11/2009 01:24
Subject
Internal review of Freedom of
Information request - LEA School
Governors

Dear Sir or Madam,
I note that your response to my request is now overdue. As you will
be aware legislation dictacted that a response should have been
made by the 3rd November 2009.
I would be grateful for a reply as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Burke

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Dear Sir

I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the
Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

I would be grateful for the following information to be released
under the Freedom of Information Act, in respect of LEA School
Governors.

1. How Many LEA Governors are currently serving on School
Governing Bodies?
2. Are they publically recorded for public inspection?
3. What is the political breakdown of LEA Governors with the city
of Birmingham?
4. How many people are currently listed to be appointed as LEA
Governors?
5. How many Governors and potential Governors for Birmingham
Schools are awaiting CRB Checks?

Please find herewith the following:

1. Currently 935

2 Not entirely sure what this question means and happy to revisit it if you
can provide clarification. If it means do we keep official records of the
appointments including and confirm them in writing to governing bodies then
the answer is yes.

3. 107 are Conservative party nominations, 226 are Labour Party
nominations, 51 are Liberal Democrat Party nominations and 551 are
non-political nominations.

4. Again clarification would be helpful. We have a number of volunteer
applicants waiting to be matched to schools and appointments pending but
again no current facility for reporting this.

5. Don't have this information as the CRB applications are managed between
the schools and the CRB team. Governors are volunteers – we only have
information on employees.

Whilst we have undertaken a thorough search of the information held by
Birmingham City Council, it may be that, due to the size and amount of
information held by Birmingham City Council, some information may have been
inadvertently missed.

If you have any information which may assist us in determining or locating
any missed information, we would be grateful if you would contact us with
details of this information, so that we can conduct a further search.

If you are not satisfied with the response you may ask for an internal
review. If subsequently you are not satisfied with the Council’s decision
you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally,
the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by the Council. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at the following address:

The Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545745 Web Address: www.ico.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Steve Cullen

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager
Children, Young People and Families Directorate
Birmingham City Council

Tel: 0121 464 4591
Email: [email address]

Re-use of Public Sector Information
The information provided is subject to Birmingham City Council copyright,
however, it may be re-used for personal, educational or non-commercial
purposes without further reference to the City Council. If the re-use is
for other purposes, such as commercial re-use, you should notify the City
Council in writing to seek approval or agree terms for re-use. Where
Birmingham City Council does not hold the copyright, it has indicated the
copyright holder. Permission for re-use should be sought from them
directly.

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Good Afternoon Paul

I can confirm an acknowledgement was sent to your email account
Whatdotheyknow.com on the 7/10/09 time 3:11.

Because we have received more than one request from you we would like you
to confirm that your response (below) is inconnection to FOI:3419.
Obviously this will save confusion whilst dealing with your request. As i
mention the FOI number would have been stated in the subject box of your
acknowledgement which is sent to all applicants who forward an FOI request.

If you could search in your Inbox and confirm the FOI number this would
help immensely.

Many thanks

Melanie Sewell
Data Protection & Freedom of Information Officer
Children Young People & Families Directorate
Tel: 464-4591

Paul Burke
<request-19563-19
b4b8a9@whatdothey To
know.com> [email address]
cc
04/11/2009 18:45
Subject
Re: Freedom of Information request
- LEA School Governors

Dear Melanie,

Many thanks for your reply dated 4th November and look forward to
the requested information.
In response to your question about FOI:3419, i am unable to confirm
this connection as I have not seen this reference number, I can
however confirm that Steve Cullen replied with a courtesy response
on the 7th October.
If it is of help to you, I would be happy to correspond privately
if this helps speed up the process.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Burke

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