Information regarding employment within Fair Start Scotland: FOI release

Information requested

Details of the number of staff currently employed to work for Fair Start Scotland, broken down by job title/area.

Response

I enclose a copy of some information you requested in the table below. 

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption under section s.38(1)(b) (personal information) of FOISA applies to that information. This is because the release of specific job titles relating to specific organisations in geographical areas would allow for the identification of individuals. Disclosing this would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.

 

Lot/Area	Local Authority	Total amount of staff*
Lot 1 - Glasgow	Glasgow	55
Lot 2 - Lanarkshire	N Lanarkshire S Lanarkshire	53
Lot 3 - Tayside	Angus Dundee City Perth and Kinross	37
Lot 4 - Forth Valley	Falkirk Stirling Clackmannanshire	28
Lot 5 - East	City of Edinburgh East Lothian Midlothian Scottish Borders West Lothian Fife	66
Lot 6 - South West	North Ayrshire South Ayrshire East Ayrshire Dumfries and Galloway	45
Lot 7 - North East	Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire	33
Lot 8 - Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Eilean Siar Highland Moray Orkney Islands Shetland Islands	39
Lot 9 - West	E Renfrewshire Renfrewshire E Dunbartonshire W Dunbartonshire Inverclyde	25

*Not all staff members are FTE (Full-Time Equivalent)

 

Scottish Government	Total amount of staff
Fair Start Scotland Service Design & Delivery Team*	21

*There are a number of SG staff who do not directly fall under FSS remit but who contribute to FSS on an adhoc basis. This includes staff working within Comms, Statistics, Research, Business Support and Finance Teams.

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