Risk assessments for mandatory volunteer courses

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Dear Cumbria County Council,

Please provide a copy of the risk assessments carried out specifically for mandatory volunteer courses. These assessments would have been carried out with a view to preventing damage to the mental or physical health of volunteers as part of your duty of care.

'Mandatory' means must be completed no matter what the purpose of the course(s).

Yours faithfully,

Lee Jefferson
Journalist

Information Governance, Cumbria County Council

Dear Mr Jefferson

 

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Thank you for your request for information regarding volunteers received
yesterday.

 

Cumbria County Council is responsible for a large variety of services,
some of which use volunteers. We do we not retain any information on
volunteers centrally. Therefore, to enable us to address your request,
please specify the service area/s that you are interested in.

 

(Please note – our website provides information on the services that
Cumbria County Council are responsible for.)

 

Many thanks

 

Information Governance Team

Resources & Transformation | Cumbria County Council

Cumbria House | 117 Botchergate | Carlisle | CA1 1RD

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From: Lee Jefferson [mailto:[FOI #427459 email]]
Sent: 29 August 2017 09:39
To: Information Governance
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Risk assessments for mandatory
volunteer courses

 

Dear Cumbria County Council,

 

Please provide a copy of the risk assessments carried out specifically for
mandatory volunteer courses.  These assessments would have been carried
out with a view to preventing damage to the mental or physical health of
volunteers as part of your duty of care.

 

'Mandatory' means must be completed no matter what the purpose of the
course(s).

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Lee Jefferson

Journalist

 

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Dear Information Governance,

Thank you for your request for clarification in which you state Cumbria County Council is responsible for a large variety of services, some of which use volunteers. We do we not retain any information on volunteers centrally. Therefore, to enable us to address your request, please specify the service area/s that you are interested in.

If possible please kindly provide a copy of all risk assessments your council has ordered over the past 24 months in service areas which provide education/training/tuition to adults ran by either staff or volunteers. This would for example include training centres, libraries, schools and colleges.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Jefferson
Journalist

Information Governance, Cumbria County Council

Dear Mr Jefferson

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000

REFERENCE: FOI 2017-0683

 

Thank you for your request for information regarding risk assessments,
which was received on 30 August 2017.

 

The council aims to provide you with the information within the statutory
timescale of 20 working days in this case the date is 27 September 2017. 
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Dear Information Governance,

Please kindly provide a copy of the risk assessments carried out specifically for mandatory volunteer courses for volunteers operating in your Community Learning and Skills Team.

Definition of 'volunteer': A person who donates his/her time or efforts for a cause or organization without being paid. A person who works in a soup kitchen for free is an example of a volunteer. A council would have volunteers in various roles such as cleaning the streets, helping in museums, providing computer tuition or other activities in libraries (all without payment).

Definition of 'risk assessment': A risk assessment is a systematic process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Jefferson

Information Governance, Cumbria County Council

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Dear Mr Jefferson

 

Thank you for your email. We responded to this request on 28 September
2017. Please see attached.

 

Many thanks

 

Information Governance Team

Resources & Transformation | Cumbria County Council

Cumbria House | 117 Botchergate | Carlisle | CA1 1RD

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