STaff Code of Conduct and conflict of interests
Dear Reading Borough Council,
The employee code of conduct section 14: Employment outside of the council states: "You must declare any personal interest or activities that may be perceived by others as being potentially in conflict with the Council’s interests. You should bring this to the attention of your manager to check that it is acceptable for you to do it."
Please confirm if there are any current conflicts of interest declared and provide the information in a table as follows:
Department Manager / date conflicts of interest declared / details of conflict of interest
Yours faithfully,
Jacqui Prentice
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Customer Relations Team
Reference: FOI-462645970
Date of request: 02/11/2022
Title of request: STaff Code of Conduct and conflict of interests
Dear Jacqui Prentice,
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FOI Team
Dear Ms Prentice
I have been asked to clarify your request.
Do you want the information just for Reading Borough Council managed staff
or do you want it to include staff employed and managed by Brighter
Futures the company set up to provide Childrens services.
Yours sincerely
Mr N Bullough
Customer Relations Officer
Customer Relations Team| Directorate of Resources
Civic Office
Bridge Street
Reading Borough Council
RG1 2LU
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Dear FOI, CRT,
Further to your email I would like this to cover both BFfC and RBC and for each department per organsiaiton please.
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Prentice
Reference: FOI-462645970
Date of request: 02/11/2022
Title of request: STaff Code of Conduct and conflict of interests
Information request:
Dear Reading Borough Council,
The employee code of conduct section 14: Employment outside of the council
states: "You must declare any personal interest or activities that may be
perceived by others as being potentially in conflict with the Council’s
interests. You should bring this to the attention of your manager to check
that it is acceptable for you to do it."
Please confirm if there are any current conflicts of interest declared and
provide the information in a table as follows:
Department Manager / date conflicts of interest declared / details of
conflict of interest
Yours faithfully,
Jacqui Prentice
Dear Jacqui Prentice,
Dear Mrs Prentice,
This request has been responded to you via an encrypted e-mail.
Regards
FOI Team
Reading Borough Council
Kind regards,
FOI Team
Dear The FOI Team,
Thanks for the update however given that this FOI was raised in the public domain it is essential that RBC respond on the same medium so that the information remains in the pubic domain for other service users to see. Therefore please ensure that you provide me with your response through this WDTK website so that I can respond accordingly
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Prentice
Dear Mrs Prentice,
Please find attached the response to your FOI Request.
Regards
FOI.CRT Team
Directorate of Resources
Reading Borough Council
Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. RG1 2LU
Dear Reading Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews
Apologies for the delay in submitting this however I am neuro- divergent and need "reasonable adjustments" for my executive function and communication difficulties.
I am writing to request an internal review of Reading Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'STaff Code of Conduct and conflict of interests'.
1. ICO guidance states that Section 14(1) is applied because of the nature of the request rather than the consequences of releasing the requested information (see https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...).
2. May I remind you that the FOI Act requires an 'applicant blind' approach, which is to say that it embodies the principle that information is available to anyone and requests must be assessed without consideration of who made them. Contrary to the ICO's guidance (see https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...), your decision has been influenced by your knowledge or view of me as the requester, rather than an assessment of the request in isolation.
For these reason I am asking you to review your response and, if the exemption is upheld, to provide an assessment which does not take your knowledge of the requester into consideration
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
Jacqui Prentice
Thank your e-mail/request.
We will log your request into our system and you will receive an
acknowledgement mail with a reference number for your request. Setting out
the response time and date.
For future reference on the Reading Borough Council Website we have a
publication log where you can search responses to previous FOI’s that may
provide you the information that you require and allow you access to log
any future requests should you prefer. Freedom of Information Request -
Reading MyAccount
If your experiencing issues accessing the system through our website,
please contact us by this e-mail address and we will endeavour to assist
you.
If you are requesting an update regarding a request you have sent in
previously, we will reply to your e-mail shortly.
Kind Regards
Customer Relations Team
Dear Ms Prentice
Thank you for your email.
I have passed this our Head of Information Governance to carry out an Internal Review.
I noticed you are still emailing Peter Sloman. He left the Council last year.
Yours sincerely
Mr N Bullough
Customer Relations Officer
Customer Relations Team| Directorate of Resources
Civic Office
Bridge Street
Reading Borough Council
RG1 2LU
Team 0118 9372905
Direct 0118 9372726
Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
In accordance with Government advice regarding COVID-19, many of our staff continue to work from home. Letters sent to the office may not reach us straight away, and it will take us longer to reply by post. We ask that wherever possible you communicate with us by email.
Dear Mrs Prentice
Thank you for your email of 24^th January 2023. I shall contact the
appropriate Service within the Council, and review the response which was
provided to you and provide you with a reply within the statutory deadline
of 20 working days from your email request.
Regards
Joe O’Neill
Information Governance Manager
Directorate of Resources
Reading Borough Council
Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. RG1 2LU
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[6]LinkedIn
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http://www.reading.gov.uk/
2. http://www.facebook.com/readingcouncil
http://www.facebook.com/readingcouncil
3. http://www.twitter.com/readingcouncil
http://www.twitter.com/readingcouncil
4. http://www.youtube.com/readingbc
https://www.youtube.com/c/ReadingCouncil...
5. http://www.instagram.com/readingcouncil
6. https://www.linkedin.com/company/reading...
Dear Mrs Prentice
Please find the attached response to your request for an Internal Review
of FOI-462645970
Regards
Joe O’Neill
Information Governance Manager
Directorate of Resources
Reading Borough Council
Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. RG1 2LU
Dear IGTeam,
Thanks for your response dated 17-02-2023 however RBC's position that the response i s burdensome can not be accepted and I am prepared to barrow the request to reduce any burden to the following RBC departments only:
1. Customer Relations Team
2. IGT Team
3. Complaints Team
It is concerning that RBC continue to defame my good character by creating "false instruments"(forgery act 1981) though the ongoing misuse of their unfounded persistent complainants policy for purposes other than legitimate.
Please confirm when RBC will provide me with the above information which is in the wider public interest. The whole purpose of FOI is to make LA's transparent and therefore it is concerning that RBC continue to obstruct the release of information which is unreasonable and disproportionate given that this request is of value to the wider public and there to prevent misconduct/ profiteering of council employees.
Yours sincerely,
Jacqui Prentice
Dear Mrs Prentice
Please find the attached response to your Internal Review of FOI Request
462645970
Regards
Joe O’Neill
Information Governance Manager
Directorate of Resources
Reading Borough Council
Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. RG1 2LU
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