People Structure Chart Request

The request was refused by Lewisham Borough Council.

Dear Lewisham Borough Council,

Please provide the organisational structure charts (including names, job title and contact details) for the Children's, Adult's Social Care and Education directorates covering the following job titles:

Director;
Assistant Director;
Head of Service;
Service Manager.

I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

James

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear James,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your recent request for information. This is to inform you that we are unable to answer your request based on the details you have provided. To assist us in proceeding with your request please can you provide us with further information.

Please can you supply us with your full name or at least your first initial and surname. We are required to obtain a full name or initials of a requester's name before we can process requests as per the Information Commissioner's Office guidance (please see following link):

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url...

After receiving further clarification from you, your request will be acknowledged and considered and you will receive a response within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of any statutory exemptions.

Many thanks and kind regards

Olu Benson
Corporate Complaints, Casework and Information Governance Team

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Dear Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council,

Please provide the organisational structure charts (including names, job title and contact details) for the Children's, Adult's Social Care and Education directorates covering the following job titles:

Director;
Assistant Director;
Head of Service;
Service Manager.

I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

James Eddison

Yours sincerely,

James

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Your request may be delayed due to urgent operational responses to dealing
with Covid_19 priorities. We apologise for any inconvenience this may
cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will
respond as soon as we are able.

Should our response to your request breach the statutory time-frame and
you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at:

[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

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Dear Foi, Customer,

Please provide the organisational structure charts (including names, job title and contact details) for the Children's, Adult's Social Care and Education directorates covering the following job titles:

Director;
Assistant Director;
Head of Service;
Service Manager.

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

James Eddison

Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Your request may be delayed due to urgent operational responses to dealing
with Covid_19 priorities. We apologise for any inconvenience this may
cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will
respond as soon as we are able.

Should our response to your request breach the statutory time-frame and
you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the
Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at:

[1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

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Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear James,

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004 Reference No: 6185573

Thank you for your recent request.

Your request is being considered and we usually aim to respond within the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20 working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with your request at the earliest opportunity.

Please be aware that your request may be delayed due to urgent operational responses to dealing with Covid_19 priorities. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we do remain committed to responding to your request and will respond as soon as we are able.

Should our response to your request breach the statutory time-frame and you remain unhappy with our response you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Office and you can contact them at:

https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
• Telephone: 0303 123 1113
• Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of the information requested where the request exceeds the statutory limit or where disbursements exceed £10. In such cases you will be informed in writing and your request will be suspended until we receive payment from you or your request is modified and/or reduced.

Your request may require either full or partial transfer to another public authority. You will be informed if your request is transferred.

If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will notify you of this together with the reason(s) why and details of how you may appeal (if appropriate).

Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further information where we believe that the request is not significantly clear for us to respond fully.

Kind regards

Corporate Complaints, Casework and Information Governance Team

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Foi, Customer, Lewisham Borough Council

Dear James Eddison

Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Reference No: 6185573

Thank you for your request for information held by London Borough of Lewisham. I have included below a copy of your request, followed by the Council’s response.

Please provide the organisational structure charts (including names, job title and contact details) for the Children's, Adult's Social Care and Education directorates covering the following job titles:

Director;
Assistant Director;
Head of Service;
Service Manager.

We apply Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, ‘Information reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means’, to your request.

Section 21 states:
(1) Information which is readily available to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)-
(a) information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
(b) information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or upon payment.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

This acts as an exemption notice. Subsection 1 means that the Council is relieved of the duty to communicate the requested information to an applicant if there is an existing method by which the information can be obtained, outside of the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is an absolute exemption and therefore does not require the public interests balancing test to be applied.

We confirm that the information that you have requested, can be accessed via the below link:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/mayorandcouncil/...

Please note that all can be contacted via switchboard - 02083146000 and emails are made up of [email address]

We hope you will find this information helpful.

You are free to use the information provided for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, requires the permission of the copyright holder. You may apply for permission to re-use this information by submitting a request to [email address]

You have a right of appeal against this response which you can exercise by writing to: Information Governance – 1st floor Town Hall Chambers, Catford, London. SE6 4RU. Or at: [email address]

This must be requested within 40 working days of the date of this response.

If you remain dissatisfied after receiving this decision, you then also have a further right of appeal, which you can make in writing, stating your reasons to the regulating body, the Information Commissioner's Office. Contact details are outlined below:

https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Corporate Complaints, Casework & Information Governance Team
London Borough of Lewisham
Address: 1st Floor Laurence House, 1 Catford Road, London, SE6 4RU

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