Coronavirus cases amongst school staff

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Dear Doncaster Borough Council,

Please could you provide the rate of confirmed coronavirus cases amongst school staff for each week in November and December.

I would like you to split the figures into primary, secondary and special schools if possible.

In addition, I would like you to split them into staff category: teacher, teaching assistant, support staff and auxiliary staff if possible.

Yours faithfully,

Aisha Latif

Miller, Craig, Doncaster Borough Council

Dear Aisha,

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

Thank you for your request for information.

I can confirm your request has been passed to the relevant department who will endeavour to search for any information held and provide you with a response as soon as is possible. This will be within 20 working days and in any case by the 4th February 2021.

Please note that some service areas within the Council are still working on the response to Covid-19 and therefore may not be available to respond to your request at this time. Should this be the case with regard to your request, please be assured we will contact you to advise you further.

Yours sincerely

Craig Miller
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
Corporate Resources
Doncaster Council

Address Floor Two, Civic Office, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU Website www.doncaster.gov.uk

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Freedom of Information Requests, Doncaster Borough Council

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Aisha Latif Contact:  Dr
Rupert Suckling
[1][FOI #716496 email]
Ref:        
RS/CH/FOI 195

Tel:     
   01302 734010

Email:    
[2][email address]

 

Date:       21^st January
2021

               

 

Dear Ms Latif

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 7^th January 2021
for information about confirmed coronavirus cases amongst school staff.
 Please find below the Council’s responses to the questions you have
raised.

 

Questions

 

1.    Please can you provide me the rate of confirmed coronavirus cases
amongst school staff for each week in November and December 2020 using the
following delineations?

 

a.    Split figures based on school type: primary, secondary, or special.

 

b.    Split figures based on staff category: teacher, teaching assistant,
support staff, and auxiliary staff.

 

                                          i.    Please provide the
information without delineations if it is not possible.

 

 

Response

 

Here are the best figures that we can get from the data we hold:

Primary Secondary Special
Date Teacher Other Teacher Other Teacher Other
03/11/2020 14 38 26 9 0 2
10/11/2020 19 29 18 7 0 2
17/11/2020 18 21 13 5 2 5
24/11/2020 19 23 10 4 3 15
01/12/2020 20 38 8 7 3 13
08/12/2020 15 31 14 7 0 8
15/12/2020 13 16 4 0 2 4

 

We have had to choose a particular date rather than “during the week”
because if we add up all the numbers for each of the 5 days then there
will be a lot of overlap and double counting. It is Tuesdays. We didn’t
break down the non-teacher roles so that includes all non-teaching staff
under “Other”. This is from the data that schools gave us, and we know
that not all schools completed the return so it is likely to underreport
the actual figures by 10–20%.

 

I hope that this information is useful to you.

 

Doncaster Council estimates that it has cost £25.00 to respond to this
request for information.

 

Reviewing any decisions made:

 

You can ask us to review any decisions made about your request.  You do
this by writing to

Freedom of Information Officer,

Doncaster Council

Civic Office

Waterdale

Doncaster

DN1 3BU

 

e-mail: [3][email address]

 

You can apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision about our
compliance or otherwise with the Freedom of Information legislation. 
Please contact the Commissioner for details on how to do this - telephone
01625 545700, address: Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water
Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.  Internet: [4]http://www.ico.org.uk/

 

Yours sincerely,

Dr Rupert Suckling

Director of Public Health

GMC 3664801

 

 

 

 

Claire Hewitt

PA to Dr Rupert Suckling

Director of Public Health

(Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri)

 

Public Health, Leisure and Strategic Commissioning

Doncaster Council

Civic Office – 1^st Floor

Waterdale

Doncaster

DN1 3BU

 

External – 01302 734583

Internal – 34583

 

[5][email address]

 

[6]www.doncaster.gov.uk/publichealth

[7]Follow Public Health- Doncaster on Facebook

Follow [8]@Doncaster_ph on twitter

 

FOR CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)

[9]https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

[10]https://www.facebook.com/CovidDoncaster

@CovidDoncaster

 

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Dear Freedom of Information Requests,

Thank you for your reply; unfortunately, the dates figures are not legible due to the formatting in the email.

We have found that dates and figures a pdf or Excel spreadsheet can be read.

Yours sincerely,

Aisha Latif

Freedom of Information Requests, Doncaster Borough Council

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Dear Aisha,

Please find attached letter format.

I can confirm that both this and the email that you were sent are in readable format so unsure why you are unable to see the information.

Kind Regards

Craig Miller
Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
Corporate Resources
Doncaster Council

Address Floor Two, Civic Office, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BU Website www.doncaster.gov.uk

Follow MyDoncaster on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news

Please treat the content of this e-mail as confidential. If you have received this e-mail and
it is not addressed to you please accept my apologies and inform me as soon as possible.

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