Disiplinary investigations (FOI)Disiplinary investigations (FOI)
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03 May 2016.Request
How many internal disciplinary investigations were carried out by the States in the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015?
How many have been carried out to date in 2016. And how many are ongoing?
What action has been taken as a result, in general terms? For example, how many staff were given written warnings, how many dismissed, how many had no action taken etc as a result of those investigations? Please break all figures, where possible, down into departments.
Response
The below table is showing the number of internal disciplinary investigations by department and year (as of 31 March 2016) for years 2012 to 2016.
Certain departments and years have been consolidated, due to the potential of identification of an employee; therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this request.
| Department | 2012 | 2013 and 2014 | 2015 and 2016 | Total |
| All other departments | 11 | 58 | 60 | 129 |
| Education, Sport and Culture | 17 | 22 | 22 | 61 |
| Health and Social Services | 26 | 70 | 43 | 139 |
| Action tacken | Total |
| Disciplined ** | 184 |
| Dismissal | 36 |
| No action taken | 23 |
| No outcome | 43 |
| Ongoing | 28 |
| Resigned prior to disciplinary | 15 |
| Total | 329 |
**Disciplined includes formal / informal warnings.
Exemptions and/or refusals applied to this request
Article 25 - personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
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