How many compromise agreements have been signed by teachers and Head teachers with a result of these members of staff losing or leaving their jobs since Sep 2004.
Catherine MacArthur made this Freedom of Information request to City of London Corporation This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Under the FOI Act 2000, I would like to know how many teachers, and Head Teachers have:
1) Signed a compromise agreement since September 2004.
2) How many of these resulted in the termination of their employment with yourselves, the council.
3) How long they had been working for the Educational Service in your Council.
4) How old they were on their day of leaving.
I would be grateful if you could let me know if there is a cost to this request.
Yours faithfully,
Catherine MacArthur
The City of London acknowledges receipt of your request.
City of London
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Following receipt of your request for information on 4 November 2009, and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.
Firstly, please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident
population of only around 8,000 and, probably uniquely for a Local
Education Authority (LEA), maintains only one school in its capacity as a
LEA, namely the Sir John Cass's Foundation Primary School, a voluntary
aided school. Please see the following link for further details:
[1]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...
In light of there being only one LEA school within the City, with a
relatively small number of employees, we consider that, in accordance with
the FOIA section 40(2) exemption ('personal information'), the duty to
confirm or deny whether information is held in relation to your request
does not arise. The section 40(2) exemption is an absolute exemption.
If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[email address].
For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [3]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.
Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority. Subject to any
other statutory provisions requiring the City of London to disclose
information, release of information outside the scope of the Act is
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Department of Community and Children's Services
City of London
[4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Dear FOI, DCS,
Thank you for your response which I have now considered.
I appreciate your concern with only having one school, but I, as a member of the public has the right to know how often or not this occurs, as public money is involved in this management method. For the sake of public accountability and transparency, I believe that this is a legitimate request.
I have no knowledge of the school and am not interested in the detail.
Yours sincerely,
Catherine MacArthur
Thank you for your email of 2 December 2009.
By this email, your request for a review is copied to our complaints
officer, who will log your complaint. The City of London aims to respond
to FOI complaints within 20 working days from the first working day after
receiving the complaint.
City of London
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Following receipt of your request for internal review which we received on
2 December 2009, and our acknowledgement of 3 December, the City of London
(CoL) responds as follows.
As the City (the "Square Mile") is a small local authority, with only one
maintained school, requests which may not involve the release of personal
information in breach of the data protection principles in other public
authorities will engage the section 40(2) exemption here in the City.
Consideration of public interest factors, such as those you raise, will be
relevant in considering release of information relating to individuals
employed by a public authority. However, when responding to requests to
disclose information relating to a small authority area with only one
maintained school it will also be relevant to consider whether disclosure
could compromise an individual's privacy at any time and whether such
disclosure would be unwarranted and unfair. We have reconsidered your
request and consider the public interest considerations to be finely
balanced in the circumstances. However, it has been decided that we will
disclose the information that you originally requested and we can advise
that there have been no compromise agreements since September 2004 signed
by any teaching staff within the one school maintained by the CoL.
If you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700. Website: [1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.
Please note that the Freedom of Information Act applies to the CoL only as
a local authority, police authority and port health authority.
The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.
Department of Community and Children's Services
City of London
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Dear City of London
Thank you for your response. It is very much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Catherine MacArthur
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