text: Internal vs External Recruitment Figures - a Freedom of Information request to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council - WhatDoTheyKnow
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  Amanda Leach 3 September 2017
  Please provide me with the following information regarding recruitment for the previous 5 years (2012 to present):
  1. When a post is advertised externally, I would like to know the numbers that are recruited externally and the number who are recruited internally (already council employees be that on a permanent or contractual basis). Please provide actual figures and also percentages for each council department (NOT including schools).
  2. For the numbers that have been recruited externally, please provide a breakdown of how many were previously employed by BMBC.
  3. For the numbers that have been recruited externally, please provide a breakdown of how many have relatives also employed, or previously employed by BMBC.
  Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 4 September 2017
  Ref: FOIA/1245
  Thank you for your request for information about recruitment.
  Your email request was received on 4 September 2017 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
  Your request will be processed as soon as possible, and we will try to provide the information within 20 working days as required. The deadline date when the information should be available to you is 2 October 2017.
  Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 8 September 2017
  FOIA1245 Response.pdf
  Amanda Leach 10 September 2017
  I am writing to request an internal review of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Internal vs External Recruitment Figures'.
  It is mandatory during the BMBC external application process for individuals to supply the requested information. It is also possible, regarding internal applicants, to see how long new incumbents to a post have worked for BMBC in total. Due to this I do not accept that the information is impossible to retrieve as it is most certainly held & would require very simple database queries to extract.
  With social mobility at a historic low, it is more important than ever to ensure that cronyism & nepotism are tackled within institutions & the public sector should be leading by example. I am shocked to see that at best, no effort will be made to provide statistics or at worst, there is a blatant intention to hide statistics.
  Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 19 September 2017
  I am writing to acknowledge your request for an internal review into the Council's handling of your FOI request, Ref: FOIA/1245. We aim to respond to internal reviews within 20 working days so you should expect to receive a response by 9 October 2017.
  Information Requests, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 18 October 2017
  Regarding the internal review we are carrying out - there has been a delay as we are currently waiting for an external partner to send us some information. Apologies for this delay, we will respond to you as soon as possible.