Who's who in Children's Services

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Dear Kent County Council,

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and retention.

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise retention?

Yours faithfully,

James Judge

Kent County Council

Dear Mr Judge

 

Thank you for your email below.

 

Kent County Council acknowledges your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Assuming KCC holds this information, we
will endeavour to supply the data to you as soon as possible but no later
than 1st September 2017 (20 working days from date of receipt).

 

We will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
the information. Please quote our reference - FOI/17/1345 - in any
communication regarding this particular request.

 

Best regards

 

Laura Pronger | Information Access Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ | 03000 416590 |
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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Kent County Council

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Dear Mr Judge

 

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000. I am pleased to provide the response below:

 

1) Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services
Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of
current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would
be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

 

Please see attached structure chart.

 

2) Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources
Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and
retention.

 

The Assistant Director for North Kent is the lead officer responsible for
social worker recruitment and retention.

 

3) What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise
retention?

 

Information on Kent County Council’s retention incentives for social
workers can be found on Kent County Council’s website:
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs/careers-with....

 

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
[2]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
on our website. Please quote reference FOI/17/1345.

 

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner’s website [3]http://www.ico.org.uk/concerns.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Laura Pronger | Information Access Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ | 03000 416590 |
[4]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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Dear Kent County Council,

Please provide the names of postholders down to at least Assistant Director level as have 95% of LAs who have been asked the same question.

Yours faithfully,

James Judge

Kent County Council

Dear Mr Judge

 

Thank you for your email, which I have passed onto the relevant team to
deal with. 

 

To clarify, this is now being dealt with as a follow-on query to your
previous request, under the same reference number FOI/17/1345.

 

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) does not legislate for follow-on
requests and therefore there is no statutory timeframe for us to respond
within.

 

However, I will endeavour to supply the data to you as soon as possible
but no later than 29^th September 2017 (20 working days from date of
receipt).

 

Kind regards

 

Kirsty-Leigh Robertson| Information Access Officer | Information
Resilience & Transparency Team | Room 2.71, Sessions House, Maidstone |
Phone 03000 418301 | Fax 03000 420303 |
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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Kent County Council

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Dear Mr Judge

 

Thank you for your follow on request for information.

 

I am pleased to provide the attached information in answer to your
request.

 

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
[1]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
on our website. Please quote reference FOI/17/1345.

 

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner’s website [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/concerns.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Jemila Dodge | Information Access Officer | Information Resilience &
Transparency Team | Kent County Council | Room 2.71, Sessions House,
Maidstone, ME14 1XQ | Phone: 03000 416034 |
[3]http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council...
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