Teachers who are members of political Parties.

Mark Walker made this Freedom of Information request to Isle of Anglesey Council

Waiting for an internal review by Isle of Anglesey Council of their handling of this request.

From: Mark Walker

9 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

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?

Mark Walker
Solidarity Trade Union
www.solidaritytradeunion.org

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From: LEGA LPOLICY CYFRAITH POLISI
Isle of Anglesey Council

12 October 2009

Thank you for your recent request for information held by Isle of Anglesey County Council. For your information, this is not an automatically generated response.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, we aim to respond to your request within 20 working days. In some instances we may be unable to achieve this deadline, in which case we will advise you of the likely timescale within which the response will be provided.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further advice or guidance relating to the above.

Yours sincerely

Huw Pierce Pritchard

Corporate Information Officer
Isle of Anglesey County Council

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From: Mark Walker

7 November 2009

Dear LEGA LPOLICY CYFRAITH POLISI,

Your response is overdue.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Walker

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From: Mark Walker

20 November 2009

Dear Sir

I am writing to request an internal review of the Isle of Anglesey
Council’s handling of my FOI request submitted on 9th Oct 2009. The
statutory 20 working days has now passed. The normal 20 working day
limit can be extended under section 10(3) if a qualified exemption
is engaged and additional time is required to consider the public
interest. In order to extend the deadline in accordance with
section 10(3) the authority must inform the applicant of this fact
within the 20 working day deadline and provide him/her with a
revised response deadline “that is reasonable in the
circumstances”. I have not been informed of the need for any
extension and my complaint has not been answered.

I believe that section 10(1) of the FOI Act has been breached,
given that no letter was sent extending the deadline under Section
10(3).

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:

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

Yours sincerely

Mark Walker
Solidarity Trade Union
www.solidaritytradeunion.org

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From: BERYL JONES
Isle of Anglesey Council

4 December 2009

Dear Mr Walker,

I write to acknowledge your application for a review of the handling of
your FOI request. Your application has been registered under the
Corporate Complaints and Compliments Procedure and has been given the
reference No. CCO/078.

Your application has been sent to the relevant Service and I shall
endeavour to reply to you before 18.12.09.

If the review decides to withhold information, you may appeal to the
Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF.

Regards,
Beryl Jones
Customer Care Officer.

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From: MARGARET OWEN
Isle of Anglesey Council

7 December 2009

Further to your Freedom of information request please find the response from Isle of Anglesey LEA.

1.No.
2. We do not hold information of this nature within the LEA. All complaints regarding schools are dealt with by the Governing Bodies of the schools, therefore the information would be held by individual schools.
3. This would come under the "Education Act 1996"(section 406 & 407)
ref: www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/ukpga_1996...

I can confirm that an internal review is being held within the Department into the handling of your FOI request that was submitted on the 9th October 2009 and a response will be sent to you in due course.

regards

Margaret Williams Owen

Dear Sir or Madam,

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?

Mark Walker
Solidarity Trade Union
www.solidaritytradeunion.org

Margaret Williams Owen
Prif Swyddog Gweinyddol/Chief Administration Officer
Adran Addysg a Hamdden
Education and Leisure Department

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