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Dear Sir / Madam

I am emailing to confirm the receipt of your recent FOI request to Wigan Council.

We will respond as soon as possible and in any case no later than xxxx, which is 20 working days after the receipt of your request.

If you have any comments or questions in the meantime, please direct them to [Wigan Council request email], or at Wigan Council, Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan WN1 1YN.

Your contact is Sharon Crippin.

Regards

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Dear Sir,
I am writing to respond to your freedom of information request.  This
request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request and our response in blue is detailed below.
In relation to the FOI request below, there are 86 staff employed in the
Youth Service.
 
Unfortunately we do not able to respond to points b) to f) as we do not
have details of qualifications on our system.
 
a) How many staff are employed by Wigan Council Youth Service?
 
b) How many staff working in the Council Youth Service have a level3 youth
work support qualification?
 
c) How many staff within the Council Youth Service work in a senior
management position? and how many of them hold a professionally recognised
NYA accredited/JNC endorsed youth work qualification? (not other degrees
in different subject/academic areas)
 
d) How many other full and part time staff employed within the Council
Youth Service also hold a professionally recognised NYA/JNC accredited and
endorsed youth work qualification? (DIP HE, Degree or Post Graduate level)
 
e) How many staff employed by the service are currently working/studying
towards a professionally recognised NYA/JNC youth work qualification at
either degree or post graduate level at College or University
 
f) The numbers of staff employed by the Council Youth Service who are
currently studying towards a level 3 qualification in Youth Work.
 
If you are unhappy with any aspect of this response, an independent senior
officer will review this decision. Please let me know if you would like to
arrange this.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner, who is the
regulator for Freedom of Information. His website is
[1]www.informationcommisioner.gov.uk and his helpline number is 0303
1231113.
His staff may ask you to exhaust our internal complaints procedure if you
choose to complain to his office now.
If you need any further information please do not hesitate in contacting
me.
Yours faithfully,
 
Rita Wood
Legal Practice Officer
Wigan Council
Resources Directorate - Legal and Risk
Town Hall,  Library Street, Wigan WN1 1YN
01942 828072 (Internal Ext. 3072)
[email address]
[2]www.wigan.gov.uk
 
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