Community Covenant and Armed Forces Champions
Dear Maidstone Borough Council,
Please can you confirm if your local authority is the signature to the Armed Forces Community Covenant? Can you confirm if your authority is a member of an Armed Forces Covenant/Partnership Board and if so who represents your local authority on this board?
Please can you provide the contact details for the following (if the roles exist in your local authority):
Elected Member Armed Forces Champion
Lead Officer within the council for Armed Forces (sometimes known as Armed Forces Champion)
Yours faithfully,
peter ashcroft
Dear Mr Ashcroft
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Date: 27/9/2021
Ref: FOI/5392
Dear Mr Ashcroft
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
Under section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act, I can confirm
that the Council does hold the information you have requested.
A copy of the information is set out below.
Request/Response
Please can you confirm if your local authority is the signature to the
Armed Forces Community Covenant? Can you confirm if your authority is a
member of an Armed Forces Covenant/Partnership Board and if so who
represents your local authority on this board?
Yes – we signed the Armed Forces Covenant in October 2012
We attend regular meetings as Armed Forces leads with other Kent districts
this are hosted by Kent County Council. The representative on the board
in this region is not from Maidstone Borough Council. For more
information, please contact Canon Peter Bruinvels at Kent County Council
who is the Kent and Surrey CC Civilian-Military Liaison Adviser
Please can you provide the contact details for the following (if the roles
exist in your local authority):
Elected Member Armed Forces Champion
Councillor Purle
Councillor Munford
Lead Officer within the council for Armed Forces (sometimes known as Armed
Forces Champion)
Armed Forces Officer Champion
Orla Sweeney
Senior Policy and Communities Officer
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If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
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Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted
the complaints procedure provided by the Council. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely,
Complaints & FOI Team
Information Governance
Corporate Insight, Communities and Governance
Maidstone Borough Council, King Street, Maidstone, Kent ME15 6JQ
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We understand the importance of ensuring that personal data, including sensitive personal data is always treated lawfully and appropriately and that the rights of individuals are upheld.
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To view our full statement to see how your data will be stored and processed please visit https://maidstone.gov.uk/dataprotection
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