Education Department Leadership chartEducation Department Leadership chart
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Request 717424765
Please provide an update of the Education Department Leadership chart.
How many of the current Education Directorate are relevant to education and have the skills, knowledge and experience to fulfill their role in giving advice to schools in the development of policies, law etc?
How can the Group Director of Education be responsible for considering requests for periods of suspension exceeding 5 days when there is no one in post to make these education decisions?
Response
1. Please see PDF attached for the current Education Department Leadership Chart.
Education Department Leadership Chart.pdf
2. The department have determined that to provide specific information regarding individual education, skills, knowledge and experience, would likely breach the privacy of individuals, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 2011 Law has been applied.
3. Where a policy references the role of Group Director of Education, the responsibility is being amended to reflect the revised Education Leadership structure which was implemented in January 2025. As such, policies will now read CYPES Chief Officer or delegate
Article Applied
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 2018.
(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 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.
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