Workforce Planning and HR Leads
Case reference FOI2023/01503
Published 5 October 2023
Request
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act about your organisations Workforce Planning and HR Leads. Please complete the below FOI questions.
Does your organisation have workforce planning* on its risk register?
If yes, please provide the name and job title of the risk owner/ person responsible for managing this risk?
Could you please provide the name, job title and email address of the HR Director/ Chief People Officer for the organisation?
Could you please provide the name, job title and email address of the Workforce planning lead or person responsible for workforce planning for the organisation?
* Workforce Planning- is the process of analysing, forecasting, and planning workforce supply and demand.
Response
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act about your organisations Workforce Planning and HR Leads. Please complete the below FOI questions.
Does your organisation have workforce planning* on its risk register?
This information is publically available on the Corporate Risk Register published on Herefordshire Council's website and can be viewed using the link below. This is the most recent Corporate Risk Register, presented to Audit and Governance Committee in July this year.
Appendix A - Corporate risk register.pdf (herefordshire.gov.uk)
Workforce Planning is not explicitly included on the Corporate Risk Register, although recruitment/retention issues within pockets of the organisation, such as in social care, are included, depending on the significance of the risk (following the process of the Council's Risk Management Plan).
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
If yes, please provide the name and job title of the risk owner/ person responsible for managing this risk?
Tracey Sampson, Director of HR & OD
Could you please provide the name, job title and email address of the HR Director/ Chief People Officer for the organisation?
Tracey Sampson, Director of HR & OD, Tracey.Sampson@herefordshire.gov.uk.
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Could you please provide the name, job title and email address of the Workforce planning lead or person responsible for workforce planning for the organisation?
As above.
* Workforce Planning- is the process of analysing, forecasting, and planning workforce supply and demand.
Documents
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