Bullying in Harborough District Council

The request was refused by Harborough District Council.

Dear Harborough District Council,

This request is being made to make the public at large and people in each authority aware of which councils are the worst offenders or the better examples when it comes to bullying in the workplace. All councils have very similar anti-bullying / dignity at work policies, but there seems to be a difference in the level of bullying. This is intended to statistically show those differences.

Please reply to the first two questions first as they are the most important:

a) Please inform me of the cost of dealing with this request.

1) How many official complaints of harassment and bullying at work did you receive between the 1st April 2009 and the 31st December 2015?

2) How many of these complaints were upheld in favour of the
complainant?

Please reply to these questions if the £450 limit is not exceeded or in order of the questions up to the limit should the limit be surpassed somewhere within these questions:

3) How many of those which were not upheld in favour of the
complainant went on to Appeal?

4) How many of those that went to Appeal were found to favour the
complainant?

5) How many complaints went on to an Employment Tribunal?

6) How many of these were found to uphold the complaint?

7) Out of how many of those allegations (the number given to question 1) did the complainant of
bullying claim that the bullies were telling lies?

8) How many staff does your authority have and what is the current population within your authority's area?

Yours faithfully

Mr Lewis

yabootoyou

CS Emails, Harborough District Council

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Customer Service Team

Harborough District Council

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Market Harborough

Leicestershire LE16 7AG

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foi@harborough.gov.uk, Harborough District Council

Dear Requestor,

 

Thank you for your request for information which was received on 20^th
June 2016  and has been logged under the reference [FOI16/304].
Subsequently, I am dealing with your request in compliance with the
obligations contained within the Freedom of Information Act 2000. You
should expect your response no later than 18^th July 2016.

For your information, in some circumstances a fee may be payable and if
that is the case, I will communicate that eventuality to you. Should this
be necessary, a fees notice will be issued, and you will be required to
pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries about this Communication, please contact me.
Please remember to quote the reference number above. If you are unhappy
with this response then you can ask for an internal review by writing to
the Director for Corporate Resources, Harborough District Council, The
Symington Building, Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough,
Leicestershire, LE16 7AG.

 

Kind regards,

 

Mrs Sharon Iddison

01858 821342 (Direct)

 

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foi@harborough.gov.uk, Harborough District Council

Dear Requestor,

 

In response to your Freedom of Information request, please find our
response below.

 

We do not hold the information you have requested.

 

If you have any queries about this Communication, please contact me.
Please remember to quote the reference number above. If you are unhappy
with this response then you can ask for an internal review by writing to
the Director for Corporate Resources, Harborough District Council, The
Symington Building, Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough,
Leicestershire, LE16 7AG.

 

 

 

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Council
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Dear Harborough District Council,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Harborough District Council's handling of my FOI request 'Bullying in Harborough District Council'.

You must have the information - it must be contained in personnel files at least. If it is contained in personnel files, it is countable, even though this may be too costly to compile in which case you have the right to refuse on the £450 rule.

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

Yours faithfully,

Yabootoyou

CS Emails, Harborough District Council

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Thank you for your communication. Your enquiry is being dealt with and
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2000 your request is being processed and a response will be sent to you
within 20 working days from receipt of your request. However, if we
require further clarification regarding your request we will contact you
as soon as possible. In the meantime, please accept this email as an
acknowledgement of your request.

Customer Service Team

Harborough District Council

The Symington Building

Adam & Eve Street

Market Harborough

Leicestershire LE16 7AG

[1]www.harborough.gov.uk

 

 

 

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Harborough
District [4]www.harborough.gov.uk
Council
The E mail:
Symington [5][Harborough District Council request email]
Building
Adam and Contact Centre: 01858 82 82 82
Eve Street
Market DX 27317
Harborough Text Messages: 07797 87 82 82 Leicestershire Market
Harborough
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Stuart Done, Harborough District Council

Dear Requestor.

In respect of your reply below, I acknowledge your request for an internal review of the Council's position in relation to your request for information submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

It is expected that that review will be completed by 8th August 2016.

If you require anything further in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards

Stuart Done | Information & Complaints Officer
Harborough District Council
t: 01858 821164 | m: 07917 791870 | e: [email address]
Secure Mail: [email address]
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Stuart Done, Harborough District Council

Dear Requestor. (I’m not sure if you have received this email or not. It
appears this email has been bounced whilst I was on leave.)

 

In response to your request for an internal review of the Council’s
position regarding the release of information relating internal bullying,
HDC has reviewed its original with regard its assertion that the
information was not held.

 

Having reviewed that your case the Council has not specifically recorded
the information you request and so maintains that the information is not
held by the authority. It is not clear if that information had been
recorded historically in any form without checking each manual or
electronic personnel file for the period of time in question. This is a
task which has been quantified as being above the appropriate limit of
18hrs at £25 per hour. As such the authority will not process your
complaint further.

 

This concluded the Council’s internal processes. If you remain
dissatisfied with the outcome, you can report your concerns to the office
of the Information Commissioner. [ICO] Information Commissioner's Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123
1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate
number.

 

Kind Regards

 

Stuart Done | Information & Complaints Officer

Harborough District Council

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Secure Mail: [2][email address]

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Harborough
District [4]www.harborough.gov.uk
Council
The E mail:
Symington [5][Harborough District Council request email]
Building
Adam and Contact Centre: 01858 82 82 82
Eve Street
Market DX 27317
Harborough Text Messages: 07797 87 82 82 Leicestershire Market
Harborough
LE16 7AG [6]Follow Us On Twitter @HarboroughDC
[7]Map of
Council
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