Vetting

Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you please send me an electronic copy, via my
@whatdotheyknow.com email address of the following information:

What levels of Vetting AKA Security Clearance (SC) / Counter
Terrorism Checks (CTC)/ and or Developed Vetting (DV) (excluding
Enhanced Disclosures from the CRB) is required for prospective
co-located staff, (Joint working between Local authorities and the
UKBA) such as Social Workers, when they are to required by
yourselves or sub-contracted by recruitment businesses, on your
behalf, to undertake your statutory social work duties at
Government Sites/Facilities, such as Asylum Screening Units (ASU) ,
Ports of Entry (POE) and Immigration Removal Centres (IRC)? [1]

1)Please also provide copies of the relevant Vetting AKA Security
Clearance/Counter Terrorism Checks/Developed Vetting forms, that
are required by such social worker to complete before they can
undertake the co-located work.

and

2)Which level of clearance is required by such social workers to
work at ASU's. Is it at SC, CTC, or DV level or a combination of
one or more?
3)Which level of clearance is required by such social workers to
work at POE. Is it at SC, CTC, or DV level or a combination of one
or more?
4)Which level of clearance is required by such social workers to
work at IRC's. Is it at SC, CTC, or DV level or a combination of
one or more?
5)Please confirm that co-located social workers are also issued
with additional ID cards (complementing local authority IC cards)
that confirm that they can work within the aforementioned
Government Sites/Facilities and that these additional ID cards are
only issued if the social worker has been given Vetting AKA SC,
CTC, or DV clearance?
6)If SC, CTC or DV clearance does not apply in these situations
please advise what form of vetting is undertaken before social
worker are issued with said additional ID Cards.
6.1 Please provide a copy of the vetting forms social workers have
to complete before being allowed to work on a co-located basis at
ASU's , POE & IRC's
7)Please provide copies of internal guidance you have which covers
all of these vetting processes, including what happens should a
social worker fail any vetting procedure to work on a co-located
basis at ASU's , POE & IRC's and whether they can appeal against
such and whether and how their employers or sub-contractors are
informed they have failed. Whether yourselves are informed and or
fully appraised of the reason why any vetting has failed?
8)In this context please advise on which agency or organisation
conducts these vetting processes and procedures and which sources
of information (eg. Databases) and or
organisations/agencies/departments such vetting enquiries are made
with/against.

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References:

[1] Special teams of social workers

  Teams of social workers are being specially established at five
ports and asylum screening units principally to help identify the
particular needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to help
develop plans to safeguard their welfare. A team comprising five
social workers, plus professional and administrative support, is
already in place at the asylum screening unit in Liverpool. Teams,
comprising seven social workers at the screening unit in Croydon;
eight from Hillingdon at Heathrow; five from Kent based at Dover,
and five from West Sussex based at Gatwick, will be in place later
this summer. These arrangements complement the programme to reform
the arrangements under which local authorities receive over £140
million each year from the Home Office to look after unaccompanied
asylum-seeking children.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...

Yours faithfully,

Cassidy, J

Dear Sir or Madam,

Ref: 58658

Can you please arrange for a reply to this request to be sent to
the email address you received it from and please retain the
subject line so following your responses or lack thereof can be
easily followed.

You have sent a response to the wrong email address with regards
this information request, a copy can be seen at:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ke...

Please ensure your response to information request Ref: 58658 are
sent to the email address you are getting this message from.

In the message you sent regarding Ref: 58658, you appear to have an
incorrect summary:

"1)Please also provide copies of the relevant Vetting AKA Security

If the above summary is incorrect or you wish to change any
details, let me know at the earliest opportunity."
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ke...

I think this summary is far from an adequate and I do not believe
the Freedom of Information Act allows Public Authorities to
restrict and narrow the scope of my information request in this
manner, thereby enabling yourselves to avoid providing information
I consider is easy to define.

Yours sincerely,

Cassidy, J

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Liverpool City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Vetting'.

More details of this Internal Review request can be seen here:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ve...

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ve...

Yours faithfully,

Cassidy, J

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Liverpool City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Vetting'.

you have never responded to my original request from april 09 no
information has ever been provided, this means yu are acting
illegally.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ve...

Yours faithfully,

Cassidy, J