Information about your dealings with Stonewall [Extraneous material removed]

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Dear Gower College Swansea,

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Please provide any information that you hold answering to any of the following descriptions:

1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,” including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.

2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.

3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in broad terms what the material is and the basis on which you claim to be entitled to withhold it).

4. Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind, if no further assessment was done).

5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.

6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.

Yours faithfully,

H Rowlands

sharon barron, Gower College Swansea

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Dear Mr Rowlands,

Freedom of Information Act request – Information about ‘your dealings with Stonewall’

I am responding to your Freedom of Information Act request made on 7 February 2021 concerning the College dealings with Stonewall. I have put the responses to your questions in the email below. I apologise that the response is just outside the 20 days allowed to respond.

1. Any application you made in 2019 or 2020 to be a “Stonewall Diversity Champion” or to be included on Stonewall’s “Workplace Equality Index,” including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.

The College is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and details are provided in the information attached.
The College has not applied to be included on Stonewall’s ‘Workplace Equality Index’.

2. Any feedback you received in 2019 or 2020 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme.
None

3. Any other communication you have received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020 unless privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure (but if you claim privilege or exemption in relation to any material, please say in broad terms what the material is and the basis on which you claim to be entitled to withhold it).
The information the College holds has been provided (attached). Personal data (names and email addresses) have been redacted from the correspondence.

4. Full details of any equality impact assessment you carried out connected with any of these applications (including any equality impact assessment carried out prior to an earlier application of the same kind, if no further assessment was done).
Not held

5. Details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall (i) in 2019; (ii) in 2020, whether or not as payment for goods or services.
(i) 2019
£3000 Stonewall Diversity Champion
£1200 training
(ii) 2020
£540 Conference place
£480 Conference place

6. Whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.
Stonewall Diversity Champion

If you are unhappy with the way in which the College has handled your request you may ask for a review using the College complaints process. You may also take your complaint to the Information Commissioner at www.ico.org.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Sharon Barron

Sharon Barron
Clerk to the Board

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