Cost to schools of ICT services provided by the consortium

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Dear Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning,

Please can you provide a breakdown of how much each school is charged for the ICT services that are provided by the consortium, such as the schools' Internet connections, email and web filtering. Where possible, please can you breakdown these figures into charges for each individual service.

Can you also advise as to whether schools have the option to opt out of some or all of these services and keep the money that it would have cost for the consortium to provide them, in order to directly contract private companies to supply these services?

Thank you, I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

S Hill

Stephanie Hancock, YHGfL Foundation

Thank you for your request which has been passed to me to collate on
behalf of YHGfL Foundation.

We will provide a response to your request on or before 20th June 2011.

Thank you

Stephanie

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Stephanie Hancock

Head of Operations

for YHGfL Foundation

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region so much time, effort and money? Go to http://www.yhgfl.net/Services
and see our full range of services.

YHGfL - a not-for-profit organisation owned by 12 local authorities in the
region - http://www.yhgfl.net/
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Phil Moore, YHGfL Foundation

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Dear S Hill

The Consortium, which is a group of 11 local authorities in the region, is
not an incorporated entity but, rather, a group of local authorities who
work together to aggregate demand for services. In this way, they are able
to provide economies of scale to their schools based on regional rather
than just local demand, providing significant cost savings.

The Foundation, which is essentially a not-for-profit company limited by
guarantee and owned by the local authorities, provides a range of ICT
services to the Consortium local authorities based on their requirements:
it may be of interest that over the past two years, we have been able to
provide benefits and savings to the region of over £11m.

Therefore, until recently, the Foundation has not offered services direct
to schools: local authorities took the services from us and passed them on
to their schools - their charging and other policies being their own
responsibility. To that extent, therefore, we are unable to provide you
with the information you request but would point you to each of the local
authorities for details of their charges and policies.

However, recently we have been approached by a number of individual
schools to provide a range of ICT services: schools which are either in
local authorities outside the Consortium or schools that have opted out of
their local authority provision. For these schools, we have published a
price list of our services which has been in the public domain for some
time on our website. Nevertheless, I attach a copy for your information.

YHGfL recognises the value of working in partnership with a whole range of
organisations and individuals to further the effective use of ICT to
support teaching and learning, so I would be more than happy to clarify
any points in this response and/or to meet with you to discuss these
matters further.

Regards

Phil

Phil Moore

Chief Executive

Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning

E: [1][email address]

T: 01724 275016

W: [2]http://www.yhgfl.net

______________________________________________________________

YHGfL - Excellence in practice: ever wondered how we manage to save the
region so much time, effort and money? Go to http://www.yhgfl.net/Services
and see our full range of services.

YHGfL - a not-for-profit organisation owned by 12 local authorities in the
region - http://www.yhgfl.net/
________________________________________
The YHGfL Foundation Disclaimer can be found at:
http://www.yhgfl.net/About-Us/Disclaimer

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08/06/2011 14:55:43 BST - Andrew Yoward ^Additional comments
Hi Phil,

Reassigning this to you as you said you would take care of it.

Regards,

Andrew
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26/05/2011 08:51:01 BST - Pat Donnelly ^Additional comments
forwarded by: [email address]

Hi

I am not sure if Vicky has forwarded this to you or not

Pat

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Pat Donnelly

Finance and Administration Officer

YHGfL Foundation

Email: [email address]

Telephone: 01724 275016

Fax: 01724 275287

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YHGfL Service Desk,

Short description: FW: Freedom of Information request - Cost to schools of
ICT services provided by

Click here to view: [1]LINK

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Comments:

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08/06/2011 14:55:43 BST - Andrew Yoward ^Additional comments
Hi Phil,

Reassigning this to you as you said you would take care of it.

Regards,

Andrew
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26/05/2011 08:51:01 BST - Pat Donnelly ^Additional comments
forwarded by: [email address]

Hi

I am not sure if Vicky has forwarded this to you or not

Pat

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Pat Donnelly

Finance and Administration Officer

YHGfL Foundation

Email: [email address]

Telephone: 01724 275016

Fax: 01724 275287

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