Teachers who are members of political Parties.

Ref: RFI 2155/ACK
Date: 12/10/2009

Dear Mark Walker

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

In all further correspondence please quote our reference RFI 2155.

Thank you for your request for the following information.

By letter of 30 September 2009, The Secretary of State Ed Balls
appointed Maurice Smith to enquire into the "promotion of racism in
schools". Part of the review is aimed at determining whether
members of the British National Party (BNP) should be allowed to
work as teachers or in the wider school workforce.

Please provide the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

1. Has your authority ever found a member of the BNP or any other
political Party guilty of a disciplinary offence related to their
Party membership in the last three years? If so please give
information as to when and how many.
2. Has any parent complained to you regarding the Party membership
of any employee or the expression of political views within School
classrooms under your authority during the last three years?
3. What safeguards do you currently have in place to prevent
members of any political Party promoting their views within
Schools?

Your request was received on 09/10/2009 and I am dealing with it under
the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

As required by the legislation, we aim to answer your request within 20
working days from the date we received it. This has been calculated to
be 06/11/2009. If for any reason we are unable to meet this deadline we
will keep you fully informed of the reasons for this.

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If you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to
contact me.

Regards

Geoff Snary
Policy Officer (Information Governance)
Performance, Research and Intelligence
Organisational Improvement
North Tyneside Council
Quadrant
The Silverlink North
Cobalt Business Park
North Tyneside
NE27 0BY

Tel: 0191 643 2333
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Ref: RFI 2155/FDL/SL
Date: 04/11/2009

Dear Mark Walker

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

In all further correspondence please quote our reference RFI 2155.

Your request for information under the above legislation has now been
considered.

The information you asked for is attached.

<<Response RFI 2155.pdf>>

Please note that an anonymised copy of this response will be published in
our Disclosure Log. This is a record of all responses to completed
requests for information that we have received and dealt with under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations
2004 from 6th July 2009 onwards. Our Disclosure Log is available online at
the following address:

[1]http://www.northtyneside.gov.uk/foi-disc...

I trust that this information answers your enquiry, but if you have any
further queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

If you are unhappy with the way the Council has handled your request, you
may ask for an internal review. Please contact the Information Governance
Team no later than 40 working days after the date of this letter, after
which time we will consider the matter closed.

Information Governance Team
North Tyneside Council
Quadrant
The Silverlink North
Cobalt Business Park
North Tyneside
NE27 0BY

e-mail [North Tyneside Borough Council request email]

Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner
at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

[2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Regards,

S Bennett
Policy Officer (Information Governance)
 
North Tyneside Council
Quadrant
The Silverlink North
Cobalt Business Park
North Tyneside
NE27 0BY
 
Tel: 0191 643 5624
Fax: 0191 643 2431

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