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Dear Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please can you provide the current/latest organisational structure for Children’s Services and Early Years teams – including the names and job titles of all senior management and strategic heads of departments, budget holders for training, and development across Children’s Services, along with contact numbers and email addresses.

Please can you provide details of the personal assistant for their senior management team.
Please can you provide a list of external suppliers involved with Children’s Services, including preferred outsources.

Also, could you please provide the names, job titles, contact numbers, and email addresses of those who are responsible for the commissioning of services for Children’s Services such as Children’s Homes, Leaving Care, Fostering, and Youth Offending – including any Councillors who sit on any children-related committees.

Yours faithfully,

C Leach

Freedom Of Info, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear C Leach

We acknowledge with thanks your request for information held by Bolton
Council received at this office on 23 August 2019.

This request will be considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
and may take up to 20 working days to be processed (although we will
endeavour to provide the information as quickly as possible).

Please be advised that if an exemption applies to the information that you
have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with
the provisions of the act.

Please retain the reference number RFI 004000 for any future enquiries
regarding this matter.

Many thanks,

 

The Information Governance Team

Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

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Dear C Leach

 

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

        

In response to your request for information received at this office on 23
August 2019, please see the Council’s response below.

 

Your request and our answers

 

 1. Please can you provide the current/latest organisational structure for
Children’s Services and Early Years teams – including the names and
job titles of all senior management and strategic heads of
departments,

Please see attached

 

 2. budget holders for training, and development across Children’s
Services, along with contact numbers and email addresses.

Workforce Development                              Ruth Seddon            
[1][email address]            01204 33 3333

Startwell Professional Development          Helen Shearer          
[2][email address]             01204 33 3333

 

 3. Please can you provide details of the personal assistant for their
senior management team.

Please note that names have been supplied for senior staff in the attached
document. The council is withholding the requested names of employees
below this level. In accordance with section 40(2) of the Act, the
personal information about identifiable living individuals is exempt if
disclosure to a third party would contravene one of the General Data
Protection Regulations (GDPR) principles. 

 

The council are required under section 40(2) to take in account the GDPR,
in particular Article 4, which states:

“‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or
identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural
person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular
by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number,
location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to
the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social
identity of that natural person”.

As per guidance from the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) the
council should treat all requests for information equally, and the council
should only disclose information under the Act if the council would
disclose it to anyone else who asked, therefore release of information
under the Act should be considered as if it were being released to the
world at large.

 

The council have considered the principles of the GDPR and the Data
Protection Act 2018 in our decision as to whether to disclose the names of
these employees. The council must also consider whether it is fair in
general terms to disclose the information. The Information Commissioner’s
guidance states ‘It is reasonable to expect that a public authority would
disclose more information relating to senior employees than more junior
ones…the disclosure must not cause unwarranted interference with the
rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the employee’. The
individuals concerned would not expect their details to be shared in
response to a Freedom of Information request, as it is the council’s
general guidance not to do so for staff below the level of Head of
Service. The council have therefore determined that in this instance the
disclosure of this information to you otherwise than under the Act would
contravene Principle (a) of the GDPR – lawfulness, fairness and
transparency.

 

The council is withholding this part of the information as detailed above
under section 40(2). Please accept this communication as a partial refusal
notice issued in accordance with section 17 of the Act.

 

 4. Please can you provide a list of external suppliers involved with
Children’s Services, including preferred outsources.

 

External Training Providers for Children’s Services

o Albany Training Ltd
o Alliance Learning
o Aspire
o BUFF
o Concept training
o Julie Crook
o Stonegate Training
o Team Teach
o The Training Co
o Training 4 Care Workers
o TLC Learning Academy
o Mental Health Learning

Start well service early years training, external trainers;

o Incredible Years
o Solihull Approach
o Business support for the EY sector ;MBK
o eLearning ;Iflourish
o External consultant:
o Early year consultant: Lucas Training Consultancy
o SEND training: Ladywood School
o EY SEND training: Orchards
o SEND award for Early years providers: Liverpool Quality Improvement
Officer 
o Consultant Ed Hollamby
o Child Seat Safety
o Early years consultant ;Jo Albin Clarke  

 

 

 5. Also, could you please provide the names, job titles, contact numbers,
and email addresses of those who are responsible for the commissioning
of services for Children’s Services such as Children’s Homes, Leaving
Care, Fostering, and Youth Offending –

Kath Smith     Commissioning Manager – Children’s      
[3][email address]  01204 33 3333

 

 6. including any Councillors who sit on any children-related committees.

Not applicable

  

As per the Information Commissioners Office’s Freedom of Information Code
of Practice, should you disagree with our decision, you may appeal within
40 working days of this email to:

The Borough Solicitor, Bolton Council, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

Email:  [4][email address]

 

Should you further disagree with the decision following the appeal you may
wish to contact the Information Commissioner:

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF

[5]www.ico.gov.uk

Tel: 01625 545700, Fax: 01625 524510

 

Should you have any queries, please contact [6][email address]

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Tasadiq Naveed

Information Governance Officer

Information Governance Team

Chief Executive’s Department

1^st Floor, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

 

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