BAME senior staff at schools

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Hi,

How many BAME people are currently employed as headteachers in your council area?
How many BAME people are currently employed as deputy headteachers in your council area?
How many schools are in your area?
How many headteacher roles are there in total at schools in your council area?
How many deputy headteacher roles are there in total at schools in your council area?

Yours faithfully,

Ewan Cameron

foi, Orkney Islands Council

Dear Sir

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

Thank you for your information request dated 2 July 2019 and received on 3 July 2019. Our reference is FOI 2019-0692. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

We are considering your request. We may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.

The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we need to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date if possible.

Regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer
Corporate Services
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone 01856 873535 Extension 2210

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foi, Orkney Islands Council

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED

Dear Sir/Madam

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

 

I refer to your email dated 2 July 2019 and received on 3 July 2019; our
reference is FOI 2019-0692.

 

I am pleased to give the information you requested and hope that it meets
your requirements.

 

 

How many BAME people are currently employed as headteachers in your
council area?

5 or fewer. As these figures are low, disclosure of this information would
be unfair for the purpose of the first data protection principle and is
exempt in terms of s.38(1)(b) read in conjunction with s.38(2A)(a) of the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. We hope you understand our
position.

How many BAME people are currently employed as deputy headteachers in your
council area?

0

How many schools are in your area?

21

How many headteacher roles are there in total at schools in your council
area?

18

How many deputy headteacher roles are there in total at schools in your
council area?

10

 

 

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the
Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this,
you should make your request for review with 40 working days of receiving
this email. Please make your request for review to Head of Legal Services,
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to
[1][Orkney Islands Council request email]. Your request must be in permanent form (letter,
email, audio tape etc) and should state:

 

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and

Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

 

We will issue a full response to your request for review with 20 working
days of our receiving it.

 

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your
complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish
Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to
do so following receipt of our review outcome – see
[2]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

 

Regards

 

George Vickers

Information Governance Officer

Corporate Services

Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY

Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2162

[3]www.orkney.gov.uk

 

 

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