Transforming Education

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Michael Davies

Dear Powys County Council,

Please provide me the following under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

1. The total number of officers employed by the Council working on school reorganisation.

2. The role title, grade of pay, Council directorate and number of FTE employees of any role which works on school reorganisation.

3. Any documentation held by the Council in respect to reorganisation of Ysgol Pennant.

Yours faithfully,
Michael Davies

Information Compliance, Powys County Council

 

Nigel Brinn, Corporate Director Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
(Economy and Environment) /
Cyfarwyddwr Corfforaethol (Yr Information Compliance
Economi a’r Amgylchedd)/
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall

Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
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Information Compliance
 
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Our ref / Ein cyf: 2021-0380F

Date / Dyddiad: 05/05/21

 

 

Request Accepted

 

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

 

Dear Mr Davies

 

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
04/05/21, in which you requested details of the following:

 

School Reorganisation

 

The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.

 

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

 

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

 

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

 

The due date for responding to this request for information is 02/06/21.

 

Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Compliance Team

 

 

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Nigel Brinn, Corporate Director Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
(Economy and Environment) /
Cyfarwyddwr Corfforaethol (Yr Information Compliance
Economi a’r Amgylchedd)/
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall

Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am

Tel / Ffôn: 01597 82 7543

Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][email address]

Our ref / Ein cyf: 2021-0380F

Date / Dyddiad: 26/05/2021

Dear Mr Davies,

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 04/05/2021 concerning
school reorganisation.

This is to inform you that your request has been considered and I can
provide the following response:

 

Request & Response:

 

1. The total number of officers employed by the Council working on school
reorganisation. – 10, however there is currently one vacant post.

 

2. The role title, grade of pay, Council directorate and number of FTE
employees of any role which works on school reorganisation. – Please see
below

 

Job Title Department Grade Scale FTE
Service Manager Schools Senior Manager 1 009-012
Transformation Schools Service 1.00
Strategic Programme Manager Schools Service Grade 14 041-043 1.00
Programme Officer - Schools Grade 10
Transformation Schools Service 027-029 1.00
Programme Officer - Schools Grade 10
Transformation Schools Service 027-029 1.00
Programme Coordinator Schools Service Grade 7 015-019 0.50
Finance Business Partner Finance Grade 12 033-035 1.00
Education & Employment Grade 12 033-035
Solicitor (VACANT) Legal 1.00
HR Manager (Schools) Human Resources Grade 13 036-039 0.26
HR Manager (Schools) Human Resources Grade 13 036-039 0.60
HR Business Partner Human Resources Grade 12 033-035 1.00

 

3. Any documentation held by the Council in respect to reorganisation of
Ysgol Pennant.

This information can be found online through the following link -
[2]Agenda for Cabinet on Tuesday, 29th September, 2020, 2.00 pm Cyngor Sir
Powys County Council (moderngov.co.uk) as such Section 21 of the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 is engaged.

Other documentation relating to the reorganisation of Ysgol Pennant is
still in the course of completion and will go to Cabinet in July, as such
Section 22 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is engaged as this
information will be published and made available at a future date.

 

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Powys County
Council, when refusing to provide such information (because the
information is exempt) to provide you the applicant nothing which:

 a. States that fact
 b. Specifies the exemption in question and
 c. States (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption
applies.

In this instance, the relevant exemptions are Section 21 and Section 22 of
the Freedom of Information Act.

 

Section 21: Information accessible to applicant by other means –

 1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise
that 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 on 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.

 

Section 22: Information intended for future publication -

(1) Information is exempt information if -

(a) The information is held by the public authority with a view to its
publication, by the authority or any other person, at some future date
(whether determined or not),

(b) The information was already held with a view to such publication at
the time when the request for information was made, and,

(c) It is reasonable in all the circumstances that the information should
be withheld from disclosure until the date referred to in paragraph (a).

(2) The duty to confirm or deny does not arise if, or to the extent that,
compliance with section 1(1) (a) would involve the disclosure of any
information (whether or not already recorded) which falls within
subsection (1).

 

We believe that this request is now complete and shall be closed
immediately. Should any further information be requested regarding this
topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

Information Compliance Team

 

The supply of documents under Freedom of Information does not give the
person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright.

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
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