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Kingdom Services Group "Whistle Blower"

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Dear Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,

In relation to the following article released this evening by the Liverpool Echo. Please see the below link for clarity.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv...

Could you answer the following questions please:

1. Could you confirm that you have read the article?

2. Could you confirm that the Enforcement officers employed by Kingdom are not being paid a bonus of £5 if they issue 5 FPNs and £5 for every subsequent FPN issued beyond 5 for the duration of each working shift?

3. Could you confirm that all Kingdom employees have been employed on full contracts and do not have zero-hour contracts working on behalf of the local authority?

4. Could you confirm whether Kingdom Service Group recognises the union and whether their employees are given the option of joining a union when commencing employment?

5. Could you confirm whether the local authority will allow Kingdom Services Group to use Flexi-Workers (again zero hour contracts)?

6. Could you confirm the date your contract is due to expire with Kingdom Services Group?

Yours faithfully,

P Rourke

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

 

Thank you for your request for information about Whistle Blower, which was
received on 08 July 2018.

 

In accordance with provisions within Freedom of Information Act 2000, the
council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges. 

 

If, for any reason, we cannot provide you with the information, we will
tell you why. If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you
again.

 

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Fakhara Qanwal

 

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Rourke,

 

Freedom of Information Request RFI0992/18

 

Further to your request for information about Whistle Blower I can tell
you the following:

 

1.    Could you confirm that you have read the article?

 

Yes

 

2.    Could you confirm that the Enforcement officers employed by Kingdom
are not being paid a bonus of £5 if they issue 5 FPNs and £5 for every
subsequent FPN issued beyond 5 for the duration of each working shift?

 

Confirmed

 

3.    Could you confirm that all Kingdom employees have been employed on
full contracts and do not have zero-hour contracts working on behalf of
the local authority?

 

Information not held by Walsall Council

 

4.    Could you confirm whether Kingdom Service Group recognises the union
and whether their employees are given the option of joining a union when
commencing employment?

 

Information not held by Walsall Council

 

5.    Could you confirm whether the local authority will allow Kingdom
Services Group to use Flexi-Workers (again zero hour contracts)?

 

Staff are not direct employed therefore Walsall Council are unable to
comment

 

 6. Could you confirm the date your contract is due to expire with Kingdom
Services Group?

 

31/03/2019

 

Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004
requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In most cases the
copyright will be owned by Walsall Council. The copyright in respect of
other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as
indicated.

 

You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a
limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting.
 However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
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I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
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send to: Corporate Assurance Manager, Resources & Transformation, Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1TP.

 

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Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF. [1]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

 

Yours sincerely

 

Laurie Andrews

 

 

Laurie Andrews

Assurance Officer

Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

3rd Floor (HR Suite), Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DG

Tel: 01922 65 5978

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