Consultancy costs

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Dear Doncaster Borough Council,

Could you please provide the following information, if available:

* Total expenditure on external consultancy agencies relating to co-design and PPI.

Yours faithfully,

N Robinson

Freedom of Information Requests, Doncaster Borough Council

Dear N Robinson,
In order for Doncaster Council to search for the information requested in your below email, please can you confirm what co-design and PPI are?
Upon receipt of this clarification, the Council will endeavour to search for the information requested and reply within 20 working days.
Yours sincerely

Sarah Marshall
Freedom of Information Officer
Tel 01302 736000
Doncaster Council

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Dear Freedom of Information Requests,

Co-design refers to:
'Participatory design (originally co-operative design, now often co-design) is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is usable.'

PPI refers to:
'Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research (also known as service user/lay
involvement) refers to an active partnership between patients and/or members of
the public and researchers. Involvement is distinct from participation in research:
patients and the public you actively involve are contributing to the research process
as advisers and possibly also as co-researchers. '

Yours sincerely,

N Robinson

Marshall, Sarah (Customer Services), Doncaster Borough Council

Dear N Robinson

Re: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request has been passed to the Human Resources department. They will endeavour to search for any information held to provide you with a response as soon as is possible within 20 working days and in any case by the 6th October 2016.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Marshall
Freedom of Information Officer
Tel 01302 736000
Doncaster Council

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Freedom of Information Requests, Doncaster Borough Council

Dear N Robinson,

 

Doncaster Council does not hold specific details on whether individual
external consultancy costs relate to Co-design or PPI. 

 

Please confirm whether you would like to know the expenditure on all
external consultancy as a total, or summarised in some other way, e.g. by
Council Directorate or by Agency name. 

 

Please also confirm which period you would like any information to relate
to - the Council accounts for this expenditure based on the Financial Year
running April to March – e.g. do you require the information based on the
2015/16 financial year?

 

I will of course provide a formal response to your FOI request once I
receive further instruction from you. 

 

Regards,

 

Carl Evans
Principal Finance Officer

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Dear Freedom of Information Requests,

 

Co-design refers to:

'Participatory design (originally co-operative design, now often
co-design) is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all
stakeholders (e.g. employees, partners, customers, citizens, end users) in
the design process to help ensure the result meets their needs and is
usable.'

 

PPI refers to:

'Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research (also known as service
user/lay

involvement) refers to an active partnership between patients and/or
members of the public and researchers. Involvement is distinct from
participation in research:

patients and the public you actively involve are contributing to the
research process as advisers and possibly also as co-researchers. '

 

Yours sincerely,

 

N Robinson

 

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Dear Freedom of Information Requests,

Thanks for your response and providing alternative information available. In this case external consultancy costs by agency names would be useful, and this would be for the financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16 if possible.

Yours sincerely,

N Robinson

Freedom of Information Requests, Doncaster Borough Council

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Dear N Robinson,

 

Please find attached Doncaster Council’s response to your FOI request.

 

Thanks,

 

Carl Evans