Staff turnover

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Dear Biddick Hall Infant School

Please send me the overall staff turnover rate (teaching and non-teaching), including staff with either full-time or part-time contracts, at your school. It would be helpful if you used the following formula:

(total number of leavers during the last twelve months x 100)
divided by
(average total staff over the period [start headcount and end headcount divided by two])

Please include all staff appointed directly or indirectly by the governing body comprising those on permanent or temporary contracts excluding agency cover.

Include staff who have left voluntarily and also those who have left involuntarily due, for example, to the culmination of their contract, dismissal or redundancy and as a result of retirement. Do not include staff leaving one post to immediately take on another position at the school.

Also, please send me the following measure of staff retention from the date this request is received. For this stability index, use the following calculation:

(number of staff with service of one year or more in current post x 100)
divided by
(total number of staff in post one year ago)

I would be grateful if you could also supply numbers of teaching and non-teaching staff:
1/ total headcounts at the start and end of the period,
2/ average headcount (start headcount and end headcount divided by two),
3/ number of leavers over the period, and
4/ number of staff with more than one year’s service.

Thank you for your precious time.

Yours sincerely

Peter Williams

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Sent request to Biddick Hall Infants' School, South Shields again, using a new contact address.

Dear Biddick Hall Infant School

Good morning

I write to remind you that, according to the statutory timescale, a response to my Freedom of Information request about staff turnover was due on or before last Friday, 2 October 2015.

I look forward to receiving your response as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Peter

Peter D Williams left an annotation ()

This FOI request will feature in later research about reasons requestees fail to respond, or fail to respond within the statutory timescale, or fail to respond fully.

Peter D Williams left an annotation ()

An email with an attachment issued by the Ministry of Justice outlining the internal review procedure was sent to Stephen Davies, Headteacher, on 4 February 2016.

Peter D Williams left an annotation ()

A request for internal review was sent by post to Kieran Cannon, Chair of Governors, on 10 March 2016. Enclosed were copies of all correspondence with log excerpts and relevant links.

Peter D Williams left an annotation ()

On 15 March 2016 an email was sent to the school for the attention of Kieran Cannon, Chair of Governors:
'As regards my letter of 10 March 2016 requesting an internal review, I would like to stress the following:
• The Information Commissioner considers it important that internal reviews are completed as promptly as possible.
• The Information Commissioner considers that a reasonable time for completing an internal review is 20 working days from the date of the request for review.
• There is also an implied recommendation, supported by guidance issued by the Secretary of State for Justice, that the complainant should be kept fully informed throughout the review process.
• The Information Commissioner does not expect an internal review of a response to an FOI request to have more than one stage.
• The Secretary of State for Justice's Code of Practice on the discharge of public authorities' functions under Part I of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 states the following: “Where the complaint concerns a request for information under the general rights of access, the review should be undertaken by someone senior to the person who took the original decision, where this is reasonably practicable.”'

Peter D Williams left an annotation ()

A response was received from the school on 16 March 2016 by separate email to which I replied on 16 March 2016:
"I am most grateful to you for your email of 16 March 2016 - a full and clear response to my Freedom of Information request about staff turnover at Biddick Hall Infant School. Thank you, and thank you for explaining the cause of the delay."