By Email:
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Our reference: FOI/KCSP/2024/SA32
11 March 2025
Dear Tanya Ewart,
Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA), which was received in our office on 14 February 2025.
You have requested the following information from the Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership (‘the
Trust’) in respect of our organisation’s approach to facilities management, compliance, and
maintenance services:
1. Facilities Management Approach
• Is the delivery of your compliance and maintenance services (Electrical, HVAC, Fire and
Security etc) in-house or outsourced, or mixed?
Outsourced
• If any services are outsourced, which services are outsourced, and to which providers?
*No response provided
• What are the contract start dates and durations, including the expiry date?
*No response provided
2. Use of CAFM Software for Compliance and Maintenance
• Does your organisation use a CAFM (Computer-Aided Facilities Management) system to
manage compliance and maintenance services?
No
• If so, which CAFM system is in use?
N/A
• What is the contract start and end date for the CAFM system?
N/A
3. Senior Officer Responsible
What is the job title of the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for overseeing
these facilities management contracts?
Chief Finance and Operations Officer
The Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership is a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales
under company registration number 08176019
Registered office: Barham Court, Teston, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 5BZ
Email:
xxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Tel: 01622 232662
Web: www.kcsp.org.uk
Where a response has not been provided to the information you have requested*, please refer
to the response below:
*There is very limited public interest in the information that you have requested, and, in addition,
the Trust has considered your request may be deemed to be commercially sensitive. Section 43
(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 exempts information whose disclosure would, or
would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any legal person (an individual, a
company, the public authority itself or any other legal entity). Our reasoning for applying this
exemption is that disclosure of the information you request is likely to prejudice the commercial
interests of the Trust and or the companies with which the Trust engages as its suppliers.
Guidance on this exemption can be found on the website of the Information Commissioner’s
Office here.
If you are unhappy with this response and believe that the Kent Catholic Schools’ Partnership
has not complied with legislation, you have 40 working days from the date of this response to
ask for a review.
You can do this by following our appeals process; details can be found at this link
https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/kent-catholic-partnership-
redesign/UploadedDocument/1ea3c96f-4ca3-4389-9d1a-74ceedd2e336/freedom-of-
information-policy.pdf on our website.
If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can appeal to the Information
Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of
what you need to do, should you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner’s website
http://ico.org.uk/concern.
Yours sincerely,
Charlotte Robinson
Company Secretary and Executive Director of Governance