tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post6648418286192013973..comments2024-03-19T06:10:57.511-07:00Comments on Zoompad's blog: COLIN TUCKERZoompadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-62107690630128487662016-03-07T21:27:22.465-08:002016-03-07T21:27:22.465-08:00Colin Tucker has a fostering agency in Wrexham cal...Colin Tucker has a fostering agency in Wrexham called 1st affinityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-73687080199026351802012-10-08T12:15:41.176-07:002012-10-08T12:15:41.176-07:00http://www.prospectscare.co.uk/index.php?id=64http://www.prospectscare.co.uk/index.php?id=64Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-11562117252838809562012-10-08T11:31:49.480-07:002012-10-08T11:31:49.480-07:00Thank you very very much for this info Anonymous....Thank you very very much for this info Anonymous. <br /><br />Someone is going to be for the high jump over this, it is a bloody outrage. Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-8220278573584461482012-10-08T11:30:33.971-07:002012-10-08T11:30:33.971-07:00OH MY GOODNESS!
COLIN TUCKER APPEARS TO BE IN CHA...OH MY GOODNESS!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prospectscare.co.uk%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D64&ei=xhpzUKbKGsjQ0QXezoHYCQ&usg=AFQjCNEHOYHAL9OaMXWT9tdGKkjateMgTg&sig2=1H0xoKiCeUaNx2L2gPYc-A" rel="nofollow">COLIN TUCKER APPEARS TO BE IN CHARGE OF FOSTERING IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN THE UK </a>Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-4207022934886505722012-10-08T04:50:44.382-07:002012-10-08T04:50:44.382-07:00Where is Colin Tucker
Prospects Care Wrexham
Fost...Where is Colin Tucker<br /><br />Prospects Care Wrexham<br />Fostering ManagerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-46954076941414898322012-10-08T04:46:55.285-07:002012-10-08T04:46:55.285-07:00Where is Colin Tucker, see above
Prospects Care Wr...Where is Colin Tucker, see above<br />Prospects Care Wrexham<br />Colin Tucker, Fostering Manager <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-34310587973676376822011-12-08T03:41:22.523-08:002011-12-08T03:41:22.523-08:00"the children were longing for love and that ..."the children were longing for love and that Christie and others took advantage of their needs."<br /><br />Those men who did those foul things to these children don't even know the meaning of the word love. Those children, they probably feel so guilty, because the victims of this sort of abuse too often end up blaming themselves for years.<br /><br />People have got to stop comncealing all this stuff, and start doing something about it instead.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-79318045803313123552011-12-08T03:37:15.185-08:002011-12-08T03:37:15.185-08:00"His supporters, including the actress Felici..."His supporters, including the actress Felicity Kendal, two Tory MPs, high-ranking naval officers and the British Jesuits were convinced that Grant had given up a comfortable life in the West to devote himself to India's impoverished street children ...<br />"<br /><br />See how people can be tricked.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-64969975647572427042011-12-08T03:34:50.430-08:002011-12-08T03:34:50.430-08:00[align=left]
"Child rights lawyers are deman...[align=left]<br /> "Child rights lawyers are demanding an immediate inquiry by the British Sea Cadets after one of its most senior officers was convicted of sexually abusing street children in Bombay.<br /> <br />Lt Cdr Allan Waters, 57, who has worked with the Sea Cadet Corps in Britain for more than 30 years, was jailed for six years and ordered to pay £20,000 compensation for having "unnatural sex" with street children ...<br /> <br />A fellow former naval officer, Duncan Grant, 61, was also jailed for six years at the Bombay sessions court.<br /> <br />Grant, a Royal Naval Reserve officer from a distinguished military family, had set up the Anchorage shelters in Bombay, where the abuse took place ...<br /> <br />The court heard that the street boys, aged from eight to 18, were used as objects of "sexual lust" by Grant, Waters and several other foreigners who frequently took boys with them "on holiday" to coastal resorts in Goa.<br /> <br />Boys were also subjected to a brutal regime of corporal punishment in which they were stripped naked and regularly caned by Jesuit-educated Grant and the local manager of his shelter.<br /> <br />Both Grant and Waters were convicted of "unnatural sex acts" and conspiring to "obtain minors for immoral purposes"...<br /> <br />Grant, the grandson of Maj-Gen Sir Philip Grant, who rallied the defence against the German offensive of March 1918 in the First World War, used a wealth of establishment contacts to raise funds for his Anchorage shelters.<br /> <br />His supporters, including the actress Felicity Kendal, two Tory MPs, high-ranking naval officers and the British Jesuits, were convinced that Grant had given up a comfortable life in the West to devote himself to India's impoverished street children ...<br /> <br />The conviction of Waters raises serious questions about his conduct in Britain, where, The Daily Telegraph has learned, he was formerly accused by a fellow officer of sexually abusing a sea cadet ...<br /> <br />Information received by The Daily Telegraph said that Waters was caught in a compromising act with a young cadet while he was commanding the Clapton unit of the Sea Cadets in London in the early 1980s. Waters, the sources alleged, dismissed the allegations as "an initiation ceremony" and after a brief suspension was reassigned to another unit, where he continued to rise up the ranks of the organisation.<br /> <br />Waters, who also worked as an education social worker with the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s, was appointed superintendent of the Sea Cadet training centre in Portsmouth in 1996 ..."[/b]<br /> <br />(Source: Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2006)Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-68634587827461457792011-12-08T03:25:43.158-08:002011-12-08T03:25:43.158-08:00Vicky Robertson, the chairman of Safe Havens-Tanza...Vicky Robertson, the chairman of Safe Havens-Tanzania, said she had not been involved with Grant in Bombay but<br />started raising money when he went to Dar es Salaam.<br />“Duncan Grant was represented to me with impeccable references,” she said. “When I started fund-raising for his<br />work in Tanzania I did not know about the allegations in India. I was told and, because of the references and<br />confidence I had in Duncan’s work, we decided these 240 children should not be deserted.”<br />Mrs Robertson, a retired lawyer from Norfolk, is about to visit the Dar es Salaam homes. She said: “I have every<br />confidence that there are absolutely no grounds for these abuse allegations. Street boys can be bought for five<br />pence halfpenny and you are talking about evidence in a third world country where corruption is rife. Do you think I<br />would support a charity where there is any suggestion of abuse? I have children myself.”<br />Aruna Buxton, a trustee of Rescue-a-Child, which gave grants to the Indian shelters, said no money had been sent<br />to Tanzania.<br />She said: “I was aware of the accusations that had been made against him but when we made inquiries there did<br />not appear to be any substance to them.”<br />Tanzanian police officers were sent to question Grant last night.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-76870665783549725532011-12-08T03:25:04.246-08:002011-12-08T03:25:04.246-08:00The Bombay shelters received money through British...The Bombay shelters received money through British schools and churches where Grant gave illustrated talks, and<br />from the British charity Rescue-a-Child.<br />The shelters were never formally registered with the Bombay state authorities but by 1999 they had a full<br />complement of some 50 to 60 boys aged from eight to 18. An official Indian report found the homes to be<br />“ramshackle and filthy and the children were being beaten indiscriminately”.<br />In 2001 when some of the children alleged that Grant and another Briton, his friend Allan Waters, had beaten and<br />sexually abused them, Bombay police began an investigation. By then both men had left India and an international<br />arrest warrant was issued in April 2002.<br />Waters, who is said to know Grant through the Royal Naval Reserve and who was a regular visitor to the Bombay<br />shelters, was arrested in New York last year when he triggered an Interpol alert at JFK airport on his way to<br />Bermuda.<br />Indian police are expected to travel to America next week to take custody of him after a New York judge confirmed<br />his extradition this week.<br />The British Jesuits said they immediately withdrew their gap year students when they learned of allegations about<br />mistreatment of children. They said they had later been told that an Indian high court judge had exonerated Grant.<br />When Grant established his Anchorage Shelters in Tanzania, they allowed gap year volunteers to go only after<br />carrying out a detailed inspection.<br />Ged Clapson, the Jesuits’ spokesman, said: “However, the students assigned to the Anchorage shelter project by<br />the gap year programmes in January this year expressed their concerns to their supervisor in London about the way<br />that some of the children were being treated.<br />“The matter was referred to the British Jesuit Provincial, who reviewed the reports from the students and . . .<br />decided immediately to withdraw gap year students from the shelters.<br />“Once they were safely back in Britain, the Provincial referred his concerns to the police. The Jesuits have also been<br />co-operating fully with a Charity Commission investigation into this and related matters.”<br />A student not part of the Jesuit programme defended Grant. Tom Baker, from Shropshire, who returned home on<br />Thursday after six months as a volunteer in Tanzania, said: “He is doing an amazing job.<br />“Without the shelters a lot of those boys would be dead. I am flabbergasted at the allegations. It is the first I have<br />heard of them. If anything like that had been going on, I would certainly have drawn attention to it. I can vouch for his<br />good character.”Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-79847895457939207662011-12-08T03:24:53.383-08:002011-12-08T03:24:53.383-08:00The ‘saviour’ of street children wanted on sex abu...The ‘saviour’ of street children wanted on sex abuse charges47<br />Daily Telegraph<br />21 August 2004<br />A charity that provides shelters for street children in Tanzania and which is backed by British fund-raisers is being run<br />by a Briton wanted in India on charges of sexual abuse against young boys. Duncan Grant, 61, a former Royal Navy<br />reservist from a distinguished military family, is the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Indian<br />authorities two years ago.<br />They want to put him on trial over allegations that he beat and sexually abused street children at similar shelters he<br />ran in Bombay.<br />As the Indian authorities searched unsuccessfully for him, he was living in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, and<br />had set up three shelters identical to his operation in India.As Grant was traced to Tanzania this week, it emerged that the British Jesuits, who had sent volunteers from some<br />of their schools, had suspended dealings with him.<br />That followed concern expressed by some volunteers about the way some street children were being treated -<br />concerns which they passed to the British police and the Charity Commission.<br />Denying the allegations yesterday, Grant said they had been invented by the Bombay police, a lawyer and a rival<br />volunteer. “They cooked up some story that we were part of a paedophile ring and using the shelter for all sorts of<br />child abuse,” he said. “It was all nonsense.”<br />He said that at first he was determined to go back and clear his name “but my solicitor advised me not to because<br />she thought I would be arrested and locked away for years without a proper trial”. He said the boys had since<br />withdrawn the allegations.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-14831529365248424302011-12-08T03:23:36.916-08:002011-12-08T03:23:36.916-08:00Alemseged Gebre-Yohannes, deputy commissioner of t...Alemseged Gebre-Yohannes, deputy commissioner of the Ethiopian police, said his central investigation department<br />is looking into all the allegations. “I think this is a very organised kind of crime. We don’t know how many boys have<br />been abused,” he said. “We do wish Tdh had not allowed Christie to go, and he was made to face charges here.<br />He could have been a very useful deterrent for this kind of act. He could have got five to 10 years’ imprisonment.<br />The next person we catch will be prosecuted.”<br />TdH did, however, alert Scotland Yard to the possibility that he might be back in the UK. Christie did, indeed, come<br />back to Britain, and settled at an address in north London, changing his name by deed poll to David Allen and taking<br />a job as a taxi driver. Neighbours told the Guardian that he was often abroad, and that he was planning to leave the<br />country permanently.<br />Christie’s offences pre-dated the 1997 Sex Offenders Act, which allows British courts to try UK nationals for similar<br />crimes committed abroad. Frustrated by an inability to prosecute, Scotland Yard closely monitored his movements.<br />Colin Tucker, a British spokesman for TdH who was stung by criticism of his organisation, which famously works to<br />fight the problem of paedophilia across the world, began working to ensure that Christie could not exploit children<br />abroad. Information came to light that Christie was planning to travel to Zambia to begin working with a project. In<br />conjunction with the police, Mr Tucker informed the Zambian authorities, who could do nothing but deport Christie.<br />Presented with a ticket to the UK, Christie could not have imagined that on his stopover for refuelling at Addis Ababa<br />he would be removed from the aircraft and arrested for the sex crimes he thought he had walked away from.<br />A clinical psychologist, Tizita Gebreu, was employed by TdH to investigate the children’s allegations and help them<br />work through them. One of the children, Berihun Kebede, said: “We feel very sorry because we are the victims and<br />we are unhappy. If David didn’t admit it himself, no one would have told on him. They told us they liked us and loved<br />us, and we didn’t know it was wrong - Christie was like our father. Everybody liked him and trusted him and loved<br />him. We don’t have a mother or a father and we are poor, and they took advantage of us. We feel betrayed. We<br />were very proud to be Tdh children and now we are ashamed. We don’t want anyone to think we have been<br />sexually abused.”<br />From her work with children and staff she has concluded that paedophiles targeted the organisation and that they<br />had a very tight, closed system. “They were almost working a dictatorship here.” It was clear, she added, that the<br />children were longing for love and that Christie and others took advantage of their needs.<br />Shaking her head, she said: “I suspect I will find a lot more victims. It could be more than we think. We will just<br />have to give it time.”<br />After yesterday’s sentence, Det Supt Peter Spindler, of Scotland Yard’s child protection group, warned: “This<br />sentence sends a strong message to any British paedophile who choose to go and offend in countries where they<br />think they are out of our grasp. They are not.”Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-63181223276976109192011-12-08T03:23:03.791-08:002011-12-08T03:23:03.791-08:00‘Father’ who shattered dreams of orphans46
Child s...‘Father’ who shattered dreams of orphans46<br />Child sex ring won trust of children with friendly words and sweets<br />Audrey Gillan<br />Friday August 8, 2003<br />The Guardian<br />It was supposed to be a village for orphans of the Ethiopian famine, a shelter for children who had lost their parents<br />to the ravages of drought, crop failure and starvation. Here, they could eat plentifully and become part of one bigger<br />“family” of orphans and their carers.<br />Instead, this safe haven was targeted by a group of paedophiles led by a Briton, David Christie, a former aid worker<br />who was yesterday sentenced to nine years hard labour in jail in Addis Ababa for sexually abusing 15 boys in his<br />care. He was also found guilty of procuring five boys for two of his paedophile friends.<br />Christie came to work for the Swiss-based charity Terre des Hommes, Lausanne, (TdH) in July 1994, moving to<br />Ethiopia to become its children’s representative. He operated from two bases, one in the capital Addis Ababa and<br />the other at Jari, an eight hour drive away in the parched region of South Wollo.<br />What neither Terre des Hommes, nor the children, knew was that Christie had been convicted of a sexual offence in<br />Britain in 1965 when he was training to be a teacher. A court found that he had “groomed” a young boy and taken<br />him to a country lane where he put pressure on him to perform a sex act.<br />Another black mark would have been found had they known that Christie had worked for an organisation called<br />Acord (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development) on a project in Uganda for children and families with<br />AIDS. His contract was terminated at the end of four years over his “management style”. He also worked on<br />projects in Togo and in Tanzania and spent time running a development project breeding tropical fish in Negombo,<br />Sri Lanka. While there, he was friends with a Canadian, Denys Benjamin.<br />In 1995, Benjamin was arrested in Sri Lanka for gross acts of indecency. Two weeks later, he was given work by<br />Christie as an English teacher at the children’s village in Jari. Benjamin was in Jari for only a few weeks when it was<br />discovered that he had spent the night with one of the orphans. The incident was reported to Christie who sacked<br />him and told him to leave the village immediately. The matter was not reported to the police, even though the boy<br />was only 12 and had been found almost naked.<br />Christie had hired Benjamin on the advice of his friend Mark Lachance, another Canadian and founder of Circus<br />Ethiopia, a group of acrobats, jugglers and other performers recruited from street children. In October 1998, 15<br />members of the circus sought asylum in Australia on the grounds that they had been sexually abused. They named<br />Lachance as their abuser. Ethiopian police were investigating when he killed himself.<br />In 1997, TdH dismissed Christie after he too was found to have taken one of the village boys to his bedroom. Other<br />men were also allegedly involved.<br />Despite Christie confessing to sexual abuse to TdH, and admitting “to having a single improper sexual relationship<br />with a project beneficiary”, the charity did not tell the Ethiopian authorities, and Christie was allowed to leave the<br />country. Instead it said Christie had left for “budgetary reasons”. Again it probably realised the terrible irony of the<br />situation it found itself in. But it now admits it made a grave mistake, and this year when fresh allegations of abuse<br />surfaced it did tell the authorities. A man is now the subject of an investigationZoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-88721767800219795542011-05-21T02:19:25.672-07:002011-05-21T02:19:25.672-07:00In relation to the first request:
Can you please ...In relation to the first request:<br /><br />Can you please confirm the date that Mr Colin Tucker was suspended from work and whether he still remains subject to such Suspension?<br /> <br />The Appeal panel considers that this information was in the public domain due to the number of press articles relating to the suspension. The date of the suspension was widely reported, (12 January 2011). At the date of the request, Mr Tucker was suspended. This information was easily accessible by alternative means, namely the media, and as such, was exempt from disclosure under s.21, information easily accessible by alternative means.<br /><br />However, as of the date of the request, Mr Tucker was still employed by the Council, albeit suspended.<br /><br />In relation to b), the existence or not of any ongoing disciplinary processes is personal data, which under s.40 of the Freedom of Information Act is exempt from disclosure. Whilst Birmingham City Council accepts that there is a public interest in disclosure of this information, it considers that the disclosure of this information would potentially contravene the non disclosure provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.<br /><br />In relation to c), as of the date of your request, Mr Tucker was still an employee of the Council. However, subsequently, a settlement agreement has been reached between Mr Tucker and the Council, which contains a confidentiality provision which states that Birmingham City Council will "keep the existence and the terms of this agreement and the circumstances concerning the termination of the Employee's employment confidential."<br /><br />Whilst the existence of the agreement is in the public domain, the terms of the agreement are still confidential, and accordingly, Birmingham City Council considers that the information is exempt under s.41 of the Freedom of Information Act, namely, that disclosure of the information would give rise to an actionable breach of confidence. <br /><br />The panel: <br /><br />a) upheld the original decision not to disclose the information in respect of request a), but for different reasons than set out in the original decision;<br /><br />b) upheld the original decision not to disclose the information in respect of request b), but considers that the original response was deficient;<br /><br />c) in respect of request c), as Mr Tucker had not left the Council as of the date of the request, Birmingham City Council did not hold the information requested, as it did not have any settlement agreement agreed.<br /><br />We trust this is satisfactory. If however, you are not satisfied with the City Council’s decision, you may apply to the Information Commission for an independent review at the following address:-<br /><br />The Information Commissioner<br />Wycliffe House<br />Water Lane<br />Wilmslow<br />Cheshire<br />SK9 5AF<br /><br />Tele No: 01625 545700<br /><br />www.ico.gov.uk<br /><br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /><br /><br /><br />Malkiat Thiarai<br />Corporate Governance and Information ManagerZoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-1330961972637512092011-05-21T02:19:17.538-07:002011-05-21T02:19:17.538-07:00Our Ref: FOI 5282
20th May 2011
Email respons...Our Ref: FOI 5282<br /><br /><br />20th May 2011 <br /><br /><br />Email response to Mr Philip J Measures<br /><br /><br />Dear Mr Measures<br /><br /><br />FOI APPEAL<br /><br />I write further to your email dated 20th April 2011 seeking a review of the decision of the City Council to refuse your request. <br /><br />Request<br />a) Can you please confirm the date that Mr Colin Tucker was suspended from work and whether he still remains subject to such Suspension?<br /> <br />b) Is he subject to any Disciplinary Proceedings and, if so, what do they relate to?<br /> <br />c) If he is no longer employed by Birmingham City Council i) did he receive any negotiated financial settlement and, if so, how much? and ii)was a positive Reference supplied for him?<br /><br />The Appeal panel met on Tuesday 10th May 2011 to consider your request. In deliberating its decision the panel gave consideration to:<br /><br />• The original request<br />• Response provided<br />• Request for an internal review from the requestor<br />• Additional appeal submission from applicant<br /><br />The panel concluded that in dealing with your request, Birmingham City Council was obliged to consider the information in existence as of the date of the request, not the date responded or the date of appeal. <br /><br />The panel also felt that the response provided was deficient as it did not provide adequate information to the requestor as to why information could not be disclosed, such as a failure to set out the exemptions which allowed Birmingham City Council to withhold information, such as s.40 Personal Data, nor did the panel believe that the questions were fully answered.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-18005766851371770252011-04-23T02:33:44.011-07:002011-04-23T02:33:44.011-07:00Barbara Richards left an annotation (23 April 2011...Barbara Richards left an annotation (23 April 2011) <br /> I would like to know if Colin Tucker has been transferred to another department, and if it is a department where he has access to children. I would also like to know how many complaints Birmingham City Council has received about Colin Tucker.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-7171215537560703732011-04-23T02:33:23.914-07:002011-04-23T02:33:23.914-07:00Dear Mr Measures
Please see the attached for your...Dear Mr Measures<br /><br />Please see the attached for your request for an internal review.<br /><br />(See attached file: Appeal Acknowledgement.doc)<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /><br />Corporate Information Governance TeamZoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-69217793041999274892011-04-23T02:32:54.275-07:002011-04-23T02:32:54.275-07:00Philip J Measures
20 April 2011
Dear Birmingham ...Philip J Measures<br /><br />20 April 2011 <br />Dear Birmingham City Council,<br /><br />Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of<br />Information reviews.<br /><br />I am writing to request an internal review of Birmingham City<br />Council's handling of my FOI request 'Colin Tucker Children's<br />Services Director'.<br /><br />It was widely reported that Mr Tucker had been suspended from work<br />and as a senior public official it seems entirely reasonable to<br />request the dates of any such Suspension and whether he was ever<br />subject to any Disciplinary Proceedings - also the terms on which<br />he left the Authority.<br /><br />I believe that issues of public confidence are involved.<br /><br />Please ensure that your response is posted onto this website.<br /><br />A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is<br />available on the Internet at this address:<br />http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...<br /><br />Yours faithfully,<br /><br />Philip J MeasuresZoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-59198651200739960222011-04-23T02:32:28.001-07:002011-04-23T02:32:28.001-07:00Birmingham City Council
20 April 2011
Dear Mr Ph...Birmingham City Council<br /><br />20 April 2011 <br />Dear Mr Philip J Measures<br /><br />Freedom of Information Act 2000 *** Request for Information<br /><br />I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the<br />Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.<br />Please find herewith the following:<br /><br />Request<br />a) Can you please confirm the date that Mr Colin Tucker was suspended from<br />work and whether he still remains subject to such Suspension?<br /><br />b) Is he subject to any Disciplinary Proceedings and, if so, what do they<br />relate to?<br /><br />c) If he is no longer employed by Birmingham City Council i) did he<br />receive any negotiated financial settlement and, if so, how much? and<br />ii)was a positive Reference supplied for him?<br />Response<br />With regard to your request, Colin Tucker is not suspended from Birmingham<br />City Council and no longer works for the Authority, the contract was ended<br />by mutual agreement. No further details can or will be released due to<br />legal requirements.<br /><br />If you are not satisfied with the response you may ask for an internal<br />review, please contact the corporate team at the address below:<br /><br />Corporate Information Governance Team<br />3rd Floor, 1 Lancaster Circus<br />Birmingham<br />B4 7AB<br />or<br />[1][email address]<br /><br />If subsequently you are not satisfied with the Council***s decision you<br />may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the<br />ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints<br />procedure provided by the Council. The Information Commissioner can be<br />contacted at the following address:<br /><br />The Information Commissioner<br />Wycliffe House<br />Water Lane<br />Wilmslow<br />Cheshire<br />SK9 5AF<br /><br />Telephone: 01625 545745<br />Web Address: [2]www.ico.gov.uk<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br /><br />Corporate Information Governance Team<br /><br />Re use of Public Sector Information<br />The information provided is subject to Birmingham City Council copyright,<br />however, it may be re-used for personal, educational or non-commercial<br />purposes without further reference to the City Council. If the re-use is<br />for other purposes, such as commercial re-use, you should notify the City<br />Council in writing to seek approval or agree terms for re-use. Where<br />Birmingham City Council does not hold the copyright, it has indicated the<br />copyright holder. Permission for re-use should be sought from them<br />directly.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-57708748729126560022011-04-23T02:31:53.557-07:002011-04-23T02:31:53.557-07:00Birmingham City Council
13 April 2011
Dear Mr Me...Birmingham City Council<br /><br />13 April 2011 <br />Dear Mr Measures<br /><br />As we are still awaiting communication from Mr Tucker as to whether his<br />personal data may be disclosed, there may be a delay in responding to this<br />request. As soon as we receive an answer we will provide our response.<br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br />Steve Cullen<br />Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager<br />Children, Young People and Families Directorate<br />Birmingham City Council<br /><br />Tel: 0121 464 4591<br />Email: [email address]Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-19339137786686358452011-04-23T02:31:20.269-07:002011-04-23T02:31:20.269-07:00Birmingham City Council
23 March 2011
Dear Mr Me...Birmingham City Council<br /><br />23 March 2011 <br />Dear Mr Measures<br /><br />Thank you for your request for information held by the Council under the<br />provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which was received on<br />23-03-2011.<br /><br />We will contact you again once it has been ascertained what data is held<br />by Birmingham City Council. In some circumstances a fee may be payable<br />and if that is the case, we will let you know. A fees notice will be<br />issued to you, and you will be required to pay before we will proceed to<br />deal with your request.<br /><br />If you require any further information or are not happy with our response<br />please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the reference number above in<br />any future communications.<br /><br />Yours sincerely<br />Steve Cullen<br />Data Protection and Freedom of Information Manager<br />Children, Young People and Families Directorate<br />Birmingham City Council<br /><br />Tel: 0121 464 4591<br />Email: [email address]<br /><br />Data Protection Act 1998<br />The information you have provided within your Freedom of Information<br />request will be held on our database and may also be held within manual<br />records for a period of 2 years from the date Birmingham City Council<br />received your request. Any personal data that you provide to Birmingham<br />City Council will be held in line with the requirements set out within the<br />Data Protection Act 1998.<br /><br />Re Use of Public Sector Information<br />Where Birmingham City Council is the copyright holder of any information<br />that may be released, re-use for personal, educational or non-commercial<br />purposes is permitted without further reference to the City Council. Where<br />the re-use is for other purposes, such as commercial re-use, the applicant<br />should notify the City Council in writing to seek approval or agree terms<br />for re-use.Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-57825892667810109722011-04-23T02:30:42.460-07:002011-04-23T02:30:42.460-07:00Philip J Measures
22 March 2011
Dear Birmingham ...Philip J Measures<br /><br />22 March 2011 <br />Dear Birmingham City Council,<br /><br />a) Can you please confirm the date that Mr Colin Tucker was<br />suspended from work and whether he still remains subject to such<br />Suspension?<br /><br />b) Is he subject to any Disciplinary Proceedings and, if so, what<br />do they relate to?<br /><br />c) If he is no longer employed by Birmingham City Council i) did he<br />receive any negotiated financial settlement and, if so, how much?<br />and<br />ii)was a positive Reference supplied for him?<br /><br />Yours faithfully,<br /><br />Philip J MeasuresZoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-49154274845693115952011-04-21T16:35:50.938-07:002011-04-21T16:35:50.938-07:00DISSEMINATING COUNCIL USING LAWYERS to answer sim...DISSEMINATING COUNCIL USING LAWYERS to answer simple questions from the PUBLIC.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712104740093981390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070370525847441676.post-24531735873641166042011-04-20T08:09:03.655-07:002011-04-20T08:09:03.655-07:00Birmingham City Council are taking rather a long t...Birmingham City Council are taking rather a long time to answer myu last letter - I wonder why?Zoompadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10241773679644853620noreply@blogger.com