Dear Alex Bateman,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2012-295

 

I am writing to confirm that we received your information request on 19
March. For your information and future communications your request has
been allocated the reference number FOI2012-295. Please quote this
reference in any future correspondence.

 

We will consider your request and respond in accordance with the
requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Our duty is to
respond promptly or at least within 20 working days.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk 

 

 

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Dear Mr. Bateman

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2012-295

 

I am responding to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA), which we received on 19 March 2012, for information held by the
Council. You requested: 

 

Please can you provide me with the total annual training budget for
Children’s and Young People’s Social Service’s for the financial years:

 

a) 2009 -2010

b) 2010 -2011

c) 2011 -2012

d) 2012 -2013

 

For each year could you also provide me with:

 

a) Administration costs of running the training programme?

b) How much was spent on training and which courses were commissioned?

c) How much was spent on e-learning and which courses were commissioned?

 

Thank you for your enquiry about training expenditure and training courses
commissioned by our Family Services (children and families social care).

 

I can confirm that the budget allocated for training in Family Services
for the years in question is as follows:

 

Year              Budget

2009-2010     £388,678.00

2010-2011     £401,353.00

2011-2012     £297,118.00

2012-2013     £282,258.00 (estimate)

 

The figure given for 2011-2012 is an estimate as our Children’s Services
learning and development service is being reorganised and the final budget
allocation has not yet been determined.

 

Please find attached lists of training courses commissioned in each of the
past three years. We have not yet finalised our training programme for
2012-2013, however I have enclosed a list of the courses scheduled to
date.

 

You will see that these lists of courses cover courses which are
commissioned directly by Family Services as well as courses commissioned
jointly with other services or agencies. 

 

In addition to these ‘classroom’ based courses, our LSCB training
programme offers the following e-learning courses:

 

Inclusion and Diversity Background to Safeguarding Children Introduction
to Child Abuse Information Sharing Emotional Abuse Neglect Physical Abuse
Sexual Abuse Bullying Abuse of Disabled Children Domestic Abuse Child in
Need and Child Protection

 

The training budgets given above also cover the following training
expenditure:

 

•        Salary costs for learning and development staff

•        Graduate social work training programme

•        External seminars and conferences

•        Membership of professional associations relevant to Family
Services

 

Complaints

 

I trust this has satisfied your request.  Should you be unhappy with the
handling of your request, the Council has an internal complaints process
for handling FOIA complaints. Complaints are reviewed by the Chief
Solicitor and Monitoring Officer or her nominee. A form is available from
our website to lodge your complaint
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Please contact us if you do not have website access and we can provide you
with a copy of the form. Following this review, should you still be
unhappy with how your information request has been handled, you have a
further right to appeal to the Information Commissioner who is responsible
for ensuring compliance with FOIA.  

 

Yours sincerely

 

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

 

Web: [2]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

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