FOI - Expenditure on equality, diversity, and inclusivity.
Dear Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust,
I wish to make an FOI request, as set out under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please can your organisation provide the following information:
a) The number of roles in your association (expressed in numbers of FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other guises) “EDI officers” or “diversity and inclusion project managers” but would not include general HR managers.
b) Either a) the pay band of each of these roles, or b) the combined total salaries for these roles. Whichever measure is more in accordance with your data preferences.
c) In the past 12 months the number of staff days across your organisation which have been committed to attending equality training programmes, whether internally run or with external consultants. (staff days = duration of the training programme multiplied by the number of staff in attendance for the course). If unable to provide please mark as N/A in your return.
Please can this information be returned to me within 20 working days.
If your organisation does not hold information in relation to any of the letters please file as N/A and provide the rest of the information that you do hold.
Yours faithfully,
Art Lightfoot
(80 Arrol House, London, SE1 6QL)
Dear Mr Lightfoot
We appear to have received this request twice from you, so before we proceed, we require some clarification:
Exactly the same request has been sent by two different "whatdotheyknow.com" email addresses but have named the sender as "Arthur Lightfoot":
First one (this one) received 17/11/252 at 15:57
Second one received 17/11/22 at 16:38
Both emails are signed off at the bottom with your name and the same postal address.
Can you please confirm whether you are the sender of both requests and if you are, can you please confirm which request you are happy to withdraw.
Once we receive your clarification we will have 20 working days to respond to a request.
Should our response to your request breach the statutory timeframe and you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office. The Information Commissioner’s offices will be closed for the foreseeable future, and are therefore unable to receive correspondence via post but can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Should you need to contact us in the meantime, please quote reference number 2022.236.
Kind regards
Freedom of Information Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
In accordance with GDPR Art. 6(1)(c) processing of your data by Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is necessary for compliance with its legal obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to respond to you. Please refer to the “access to information” section available on our website: https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/about-us/acce...
Dear Mr Lightfoot
With regard to your request for information via the Freedom of Information
Act 2000, please find attached our response.
Kind regards
FOI Team
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
The Oast, Hermitage Court
Hermitage Lane, Maidstone
Kent, ME16 9NT
01622 211900
In accordance with GDPR Art. 6(1)(c) processing of your data by Kent
Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is necessary for compliance with its
legal obligation under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to respond to
you. Please refer to the “access to information” section available on our
website: [1]https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/about-us/acce...
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