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Dear Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions:
1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,” including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.
2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.
3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in broad terms what the material is anyd the basis on which you claim to be entitled to withhold it).
4. Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind, if no further assessment was done).
5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.
6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.
Yours faithfully,
I Mulier

FOI (RRE) MPFT, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Sir/Madam,

 

I write to acknowledge receipt of your email in which you requested
information under the FOI Act 2000.

 

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, from the date of receipt, as
defined by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Currently your request for information may be delayed due to urgent
operational responses to dealing with Public Health priorities.

 

Our response to Freedom of Information Requests and Environmental
Information Regulation Requests may take longer for us to complete at this
present time due to COVID-19 implications.

 

The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has advised that although they
are unable to extend statutory timescales, they will advise people that
they may experience understandable delays when making requests during the
COVID-19 pandemic.

 

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed
to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.

 

Should our response to your request breach the statutory timeframe and you
remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at;

 

Information Commissioners Office

[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Fax: 01625 524510

 

The Act defines a number of exemptions which may prevent release of the
information you have requested. There will be an assessment and if any of
the exemption categories apply then the information will not be released.
You will be informed if this is the case within 20 working days, together
with your rights of appeal.

 

If the information you are requesting contains reference to a third party
then they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or
not to release the information to you. You will be informed within 20
working days if this is the case.

 

If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact
me.  May l ask that you quote the above reference number on all your
correspondence?

 

PLEASE NOTE: As of 1^st June 2018 South Staffordshire and Shropshire
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has merged with Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust to become Midlands Partnership
Foundation Trust.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Aled Evans

 

FOI Officer

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Trust HQ, St George’s Hospital

Corporation Street

Stafford
ST16 3AG

Tel: 01785 221104 Ext 7128998

Skype: 01785 301314 Extenstion: 301314

Email: [2][email address]

 

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FOI (RRE) MPFT, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Dear Sir/Madam,

Further to your recent request made under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, please see detailed below the Trust’s response:

1.    Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall
Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality
Index,” including any attachments or appendices to those applications.
Please redact personal details if necessary.

 

Stonewall Diversity Champion - signed Membership Agreement attached dated
April 2019, plus Diversity Champions Terms and Conditions

 

The Trust has not applied for inclusion on the Workplace Equality Index.

 

2.    Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation
to either application or programme.

 

Emails received from Stonewall in 2019/20 are attached.

 

3.    Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or
2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you
claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in
broad terms what the material is and the basis on which you claim to be
entitled to withhold it).

 

See response to question 2

 

4.    Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out
connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact
assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind,
if no further assessment was done).

 

We are not aware of any EIA being completed.

 

5.    Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in
2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.

 

£3,000 was paid in July 2019 for Diversity Champion Membership for
31/07/2019 to 30/07/2020

£3,000 was paid in November 2020 for Diversity Champion Membership for
31/07/2020 to 30/07/2021

 

6.    Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall
scheme in the future, and if so which.

 

No discussions have taken place to date regarding this.

 

Please note:  the Trust Associate Director of Equality and Inclusion is
currently on leave until after the deadline for response to this request
and may have additional documents/communications which it has not been
possible to access in her absence.

 

We would be grateful if you could take a minute to fill out our Freedom of
Information Customer Satisfaction Survey (attached) and let us know about
your experience.

Please contact me (Aled Evans) in the first instance if you have any
queries or questions regarding the Trust's response.  However, if you have
any complaints about the handling of your enquiry, please contact:

Ms Lian Stibbs, Head of Information Governance and Records Access
Management, Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, Trust Headquarters St
George's Hospital Corporation Street Stafford, ST16 3SR
Email: [1][email address]

You also have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545700
Website: [2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

PLEASE NOTE: As of 1^st June 2018 South Staffordshire and Shropshire
Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has merged with Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust to become Midlands Partnership
Foundation Trust.

Yours sincerely

 

Aled Evans

 

FOI Officer

Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust

Trust HQ, St George’s Hospital

Corporation Street

Stafford
ST16 3AG

Tel: 01785 221104 Extension: 7128998

DD: 01785 301314 Extension: 301314

Email: [3][email address]

 

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[6]@mpftnhs       
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