Who's who in Children's Services

Hillingdon Borough Council did not have the information requested.

Loredana Grigore

Dear Hillingdon Borough Council,

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and retention.

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise social worker retention?

Yours faithfully,

Loredana Grigore

SCH FOI, Hillingdon Borough Council

Dear Loredana Grigore,

I am writing in response to your request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, received 02/08/17. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we have 20 working days to
respond to your request.  Therefore the deadline for our response
is 31/08/17.

If we require further information or clarification from you in order to
assist us in responding to your request, or if we require a fee to be paid
before we can respond we will contact you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services 

FOI ., Hillingdon Borough Council

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FOI 6075199

Dear Loredana Grigore

 

 

I am writing in response to your request for information below.

 

As I understand it you are seeking to know:

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Children’s Services
Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of
current post-holders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager
would be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Officers).

Please find attached.

2. Please identify who within Children's Services and your Human Resources
Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and
retention.

The Council’s HR Resourcing Manager is Elena Russell.

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise
social worker retention?

We have an existing Employee Retention Payment Scheme available to
frontline children’s social work aimed at retaining high quality social
workers in areas where recruitment and retention issues have been
identified. This offers a £1,000 p.a. retention allowance for employees
who commit to stay in the council’s employment.

 

 

 

If you have any queries regarding this matter please do not hesitate to
contact me.

If you wish to request an internal review of our response you should
write, within 2 months, to:

Office Managing Partner, Legal Services, Civic Centre, High St, Uxbridge,
UB8 1UW (or via email to [1][Hillingdon Borough Council request email] marked for the attention
of the Office Managing Partner).

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s
Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

 

Siobhan Tierney

Senior Business Support Officer
Legal Services (3E 04)
London Borough of Hillingdon
Civic Centre
High Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1UW
01895 55(6923)

On 8 August 2017 at 16:59, SCH FOI <[2]sch[Hillingdon Borough Council request email]> wrote:

Dear Loredana Grigore,

I am writing in response to your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 02/08/17. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we have 20 working days to
respond to your request.  Therefore the deadline for our response
is 31/08/17.

If we require further information or clarification from you in order to
assist us in responding to your request, or if we require a fee to be
paid before we can respond we will contact you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services 

Dear FOI .,

Would you be so kind to supply named postholders down to Service Manager level? This question has been asked of over 200 LAs and 95% have provided such detail...often more.

Yours sincerely,

Loredana Grigore

SCH FOI, Hillingdon Borough Council

Dear Loredana Grigore,

I am writing in response to your further request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 03/09/17  relating to FOI
6075199

I have directed it to the team who provided the original Organisation
Chart and will respond to your request shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services 

FOI ., Hillingdon Borough Council

FOI 6075199

Dear Loredana Grigore

 

 

I am writing in response to your request for information below.

 

As I understand it you are seeking to know:

Would you be so kind to supply named postholders down to Service Manager
level? 

Please be advised the structure chart is kept blank otherwise it gets out
of date.

As you are aware the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) contains an
exemption for information that is already published or where it is
intended for future publication.

 

S21 of the Freedom Information Act 2000 provides that information is
exempt if it is already accessible by other means. 

 

In this instance we can confirm the information you are seeking is
published on our website.

Please see link below:

[1]http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/article/310...

 

 

If you have any queries regarding this matter please do not hesitate to
contact me.

If you wish to request an internal review of our response you should
write, within 2 months, to:

Office Managing Partner, Legal Services, Civic Centre, High St, Uxbridge,
UB8 1UW (or via email to [2][Hillingdon Borough Council request email] marked for the attention
of the Office Managing Partner).

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s
Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

 

Siobhan Tierney

Senior Business Support Officer
Legal Services (3E 04)
London Borough of Hillingdon
Civic Centre
High Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1UW
01895 55(6923)

On 6 September 2017 at 17:14, SCH FOI <[3]sch[Hillingdon Borough Council request email]> wrote:

Dear Loredana Grigore,

I am writing in response to your further request for information under
the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 03/09/17  relating to FOI
6075199

I have directed it to the team who provided the original Organisation
Chart and will respond to your request shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services