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Dear Mr King

Thank you for your email of the 9th September 2022 where you requested information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

The information you requested is as follows:

1. Please provide the team structure of the Children & Families Commissioning Team, including but not limited to the names of Head of Children’s Commissioning and the Commissioning Manager for Looked After Children.

Please find attached the structure chart for the Children’s Commissioning Team. This includes the Children’s Placements and Early Help Team and the Children’s Clinical Commissioning Team.

Helen Gollins is Trafford Council’s Interim Head of Children and Young People’s Commissioning.

Due to confidentiality, Trafford Council does not supply contact details of staff, unless they are published on our website. It is our policy to only provide staff names for senior managers only.

Section 40 (2) – we cannot disclose this information to you as this constitutes to personal information of staff and this would be a breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Please provide the team structure of the LAC Placements Team (Sometimes called the Brokerage Team or Access to Resources Team) including but not limited to the names of the Team Manager, Service Manager and Head of Service.

Please refer to the structure attached above. The Team/Service Manager would be the “Interim Specialist Commissioner Children's Placements and Early Help” position.

Due to confidentiality, Trafford Council does not supply contact details of staff, unless they are published on our website. It is our policy to only provide staff names for senior managers only.

Section 40 (2) – we cannot disclose this information to you as this constitutes to personal information of staff and this would be a breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.

3. Please provide the name of the Looked After Children Team's Head of Service.

Tracey Arnold is Trafford Council’s Head of Service for Cared for Children and Care Experienced.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: Information Governance Manager, Trafford Council, Town Hall, Talbot Road StretfordM33 0TH or via email to [Trafford Council request email]  

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Yours sincerely,

Information Governance
Legal Services | Trafford Council | Trafford Town Hall | Talbot Road | Stretford | M32 0TH

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