LGO investigations.

Trevor R Nunn made this Freedom of Information request to Newham Borough Council

The request was successful.

From: Trevor R Nunn

12 January 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

During the last five years how many times has the Local Government
Ombudsman (as a result of investigating a complaint against Newham
Borough Council) brought to the attention of the council the fact
that a member of Newham Borough Council staff had misled them, lied
to them or done anything else to hinder their investigation. If
they have what disciplinary action was taken against the
individual(s) concerned by the council.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Newham Borough Council

14 January 2009

REQUESTER REFERENCE: C2116
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E3458
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received on 14/01/2009. We are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 11/02/2009.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information Governance Team on 020 8430 3737 or email us at: [Newham Borough Council request email]

Yours Faithfully

Information Governance Team
Newham Council

Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk

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However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should immediately permanently destroy it.
You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 0208 430 4444 or any other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information and therefore maybe at risk.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems. Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to infect the council network.
The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your reply cannot be guaranteed.

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Newham Borough Council

16 January 2009

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Dear Requester,

Please find the response to your request attached.

If you experience any problems, please let us know.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the information
Governance Team on the details below.

If you are unhappy with our response made in relation to your request, you
can submit an appeal. This process is in three stages and is carried out
by one of Newham's Service Managers, the Head of Information Governance
Team and the Corporate Complaints Manager, respectively.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Information Governance- ICT
Direct House
Abbey Road
London, E15 3LX

Tel: - 0208-430-2000 Email:- [4][Newham Borough Council request email]
Fax :- 020 8430 1504

NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.

However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.

You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
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communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
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Trevor R Nunn left an annotation (11 August 2009)

I submitted this FOI request to every English Council. I have now collated the results and the full story can be read here

http://ombudsmanwatchers.org.uk/evidence...

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Newham Borough Council

12 October 2009

REQUESTER REFERENCE: C2116
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E4999
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received on 12/10/2009. We
are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 09/11/2009.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information
Governance Team on 020 8430 3737 or email us at:
[Newham Borough Council request email]

Yours Faithfully

Information Governance Team
Newham Council

Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk

NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough of Newham.
However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should immediately permanently destroy it.
You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 0208 430 4444 or any other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information and therefore maybe at risk.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems. Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to infect the council network.
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From: Trevor R Nunn

13 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Think you have mixed up this FOI response with an earlier request
on a different subject.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Newham Borough Council

13 October 2009

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Are you saying that this is not the request which you made on 11/10/09, and that this is not the correct Acknowledgement of 12/10/09?

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From: Trevor R Nunn

13 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I submitted a Freedom of Information request about LGO
investigations in January 2009, the council responded on the 16th
January 2009 concluding this particular FOI request,

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lg...

On the 11th October 2009 I submitted another Freedom of Information
request regarding LG Act 1974 Part III Section 32(3) notices,
however, your response has been sent to the wrong FOI request.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lg...

Hope the above explains the matter. Each FOI request submitted via
the What Do They Know website has a unique URL and return address
based on the title of the request.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Newham Borough Council

13 October 2009

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is important that you refer to the correct referrence number that we give you for each of your request, as we have thousands of request, and it would help us identiy for precise request.

However, we still do not understand what you are saying, as we have not responded to the request which you made just a couple of days ago, reference E4999. The Target date for that request is 09/11/09, and we hope to respond to you on or before that date.

Regards,

Information Governance.

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From: Trevor R Nunn

13 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I will try one last time to explain. I submitted a Freedom of
information request using the What Do They Know website about LGO
investigations this was given the reference number E3458 by your
council. You supplied the information and the FOI request was
CLOSED months ago!

I recently submitted another quite different FOI request called LG
Act 1974 Part III Section 32(3).

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lg...

It is important that you acknowledge and respond to the correct
Freedom of Information request.

Why do you insist on sending all the acknowledgements and responses
to my new FOI request called LG Act 1974 Part III section 32(3)
notices as an acknowledgement and responses to a old and CLOSED FOI
request.

If you check the links provided you will be able to see that you
are responding to the wrong FOI request. Please respond to the
correct FOI request. In addition if you had replied to the FOI
request it would have automatically been directed to the correct
page. Someone in your council must have removed the return address
for my new FOI request and substituted it for the return address of
my earlier FOI request. Why?

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Newham Borough Council

3 November 2009

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Dear Requester,

Please find the response to your request attached.

If you experience any problems, please let us know.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the information
Governance Team on the details below.

If you are unhappy with our response made in relation to your request, you
can submit an appeal. This process is in three stages and is carried out
by one of Newham's Service Managers, the Head of Information Governance
Team and the Corporate Complaints Manager, respectively.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Information Governance- ICT

Newham Dockside

1000 Dockside Road

PO Box 65911

London

E16 2QU

Tel: - 0208-430-2000 Email:- [1][Newham Borough Council request email]
Fax :- 020 8430 1504

NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.

However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.

You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 0208 430 4444 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
and therefore maybe at risk.

We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure
that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems.
Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.

The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your
reply cannot be guaranteed.

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From: Trevor R Nunn

4 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

This response has nothing to do with my Freedom of Information
request regarding LGO investigation. You responded to that
satisfactorily in January 2009. Therefore, please respond to the
correct Freedom of Information request via the correct return
address given for that response.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Newham Borough Council

4 November 2009

Dear Sir/Madam,

Can you please provide us with our reference number, which would allow us to locate the request that you are refering to. It start with an 'E' and has four numbers following it.

Regards,

Information Governance.

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From: Trevor R Nunn

4 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I think you are wrongly sending responses about a different and
later FOI request to the earlier concluded one called LGO
Investigations.

Why should I supply you with a reference number for a Freedom of
Information Request about LGO investigations that was
satisfactorily concluded in January 2009.

The only Freedom of information request I am still waiting for a
response to is Freedom of Information request called Section 32(3)
notices.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lg...

And up to now you have not responded to that FOI request with an E
number so how am I supposed to know it.

For the records I have tried on numerous occasions to clarify the
situation.

Yours faithfully,

Trevor R Nunn

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Trevor R Nunn left an annotation ( 4 November 2009)

For some bizarre reason the council keep reopening this FOI request which was satisfactorily concluded in January 2009.

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Richard Taylor left an annotation ( 5 November 2009)

The latter correspondence on this thread refers to the request at:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lg...

WhatDoTheyKnow.com has written to Newham Borough Council to explain that every request made via the site has its own unique email address.

If we are alerted to cases where correspondence has been posted to the wrong request we are happy to move it. (That is probably preferable to entering into correspondence on the matter with the authority).

In this case, as correspondence has been entered into, I will not move the requests to the correct threads and disrupt the exchange.

--

Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer

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