Workforce Development Information

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Dear City of Bristol College,

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible.
Please can you provide information on the following:

1. Does your organisation use a Learning Management System and e-learning provision for employee / staff training?
2. If no, are there ongoing plans to purchase a Learning Management System and e-learning provision for employee training in the near future?
3. What is the name of the Learning Management System (product name) and which company is it purchased from?
4. Provide brief information of the current e-learning courses that are used in employee training.
5. Who provides the e-learning courses that are used in employee training?
6. Provide the development themes of the eLearning courses that are used in employee training (i.e. Compliance, Safeguarding, etc.)
7. Value of the current contract, date of commencement and date of expiry.
8. Who is responsible for ensuring the LMS and e-learning provision meets the local authorities training requirements?
9. Can you please provide your current organisational structure for the college.

I would like the above information to be provided to me via email.
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.

I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after receipt, however I would be grateful if you could confirm that you have received this request.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for, my details are outlined below.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Sharman

Corporate Services, City of Bristol College

Dear Chris Sharman,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request sent to City of Bristol College.

I can confirm receipt of the email. We will respond as soon as possible and no later than 20 working days.

Kind regards,

Corporate Services
City of Bristol College
PO Box 2887, Bristol, BS2 2BB

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Joanne Ward, City of Bristol College

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Refusal notice issued under Freedom of Information Act Section 43(2)

 

Dear Chris Shaman,

 

Thank you for your email of 20 August 2018. We can confirm that we hold
the information you requested but are unable to answer in full.

 

We have not answered the following question:

o Value of the current contract, date of commencement and date of
expiry.

 

We have assessed the content of your request against the Freedom of
Information Act, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the
Data Protection Act 2018 and have concluded that we are unable to release
the information under Section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act
–Prejudice to commercial interests.

 

Section 43(2) exempts information whose disclosure would, or would be
likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person (an
individual, a company, the public authority itself or any other legal
entity). We believe that disclosure would be, or would be likely to be,
prejudicial to commercial activities. We have also concluded that
suppliers may not expect this information to be disclosed.

 

We have applied the public interest test as required to the exemption and
concluded that in this instance we do not believe it is in the public
interest to disclose the information relating to the renewal date of a
specific contract.

 

We have answered the rest of your questions below.

 

You have the right to appeal this decision.  If you wish to do so please
contact us at [1][City of Bristol College request email] within 14 days.

 

If you remain dissatisfied with the handling of your request you have the
right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office –
[2]www.ico.org.uk

 

City of Bristol College Responses:

 

1.            Does your organisation use a Learning Management System and
e-learning provision for employee / staff training?

 

Yes

 

2.            If no, are there ongoing plans to purchase a Learning
Management System and e-learning provision for employee training in the
near future?

 

n/a

 

3.            What is the name of the Learning Management System (product
name) and which company is it purchased from?

 

o Learn Upon - Marshall Training and Consultancy by Marshall ACM Ltd
o iHasco Online Training Suite

 

4.            Provide brief information of the current e-learning courses
that are used in employee training.

 

We have e-learning courses for Safeguarding and Prevent, GDPR / Data
Protection, Equality and Diversity

 

5.            Who provides the e-learning courses that are used in
employee training?

 

As above (question 3)

 

6.            Provide the development themes of the eLearning courses that
are used in employee training (i.e. Compliance, Safeguarding, etc.)

 

Safeguarding, induction, policy briefing, updating, compliance

 

7.            Value of the current contract, date of commencement and date
of expiry.

See above

 

8.            Who is responsible for ensuring the LMS and e-learning
provision meets the local authorities training requirements?

 

We are not a local authority.

Our e-learning provision is managed by our Human Resources and
Organisational Development Team.

 

9.            Can you please provide your current organisational structure
for the college.

 

Attached

 

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