Dear Colleagues

Thank you for your below email requesting a list of Queensland State
schools in the Metropolitan region and the number of independent
contractors currently engaged at each of these schools that provide
support services such as coaching or tutoring.

This request has been considered under the Department’s ‘Administrative
Access Scheme for Central Office and Regional Offices’.

I am advised the Department does not hold this information in order to
provide a list of the Queensland State schools in the Metropolitan region
who engage contractors to provide support services. This information is
not collected centrally or in the Metropolitan region.  However, the
Department can provide a list of all transactions undertaken by each
school in the Metropolitan region filtered to the GL code for contractors
engaged by the 258 schools in the region.  In order to identify the number
of contractors that provide coaching or tutoring services, each
transaction will need to be reviewed and confirmation sought from each
school to identify the requested information. Taking into account the
number of schools in Metropolitan region, the provision of the requested
information would take a considerable amount of time to complete.

In order to obtain this information you will need to lodge a formal
application under the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld).  In light of
the above, I note that if the requested information is sought under a
formal application, the Department will consider whether the processing of
the application would require significant resources and considerable time
to complete and therefore may refuse to deal with the application under
the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld).

For further information regarding the right to information framework
including lodging a formal application under the Right to Information Act
2009 (Qld), I refer you to the online RTI portal -
[1]https://www.rti.qld.gov.au/

Kind regards,

Fiona Headrick

Manager Information Release

Legal Services

Department of Education

P: 07 3513 5870

E: [2][email address]

Level 22 | Education House | 30 Mary Street | Brisbane QLD 4000

PO Box 15033 | City East QLD 4002

Please consider the environment before printing this email.

IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain legally
privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by
copyright. You may only use it if you are the person or persons it was
intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is
allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or
copy this e-mail without appropriate authority.

If this e-mail was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake,
please telephone or e-mail me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this
e-mail and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any
legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail is not waived
or destroyed by that mistake.

It is your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail does not contain and
is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third
parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your
computer system).

show quoted sections

Dear Colleagues

I acknowledge receipt of your email. Your email has been forwarded to the relevant department area to consider under the Department's 'Administrative Access Scheme for Central Office and Regional Offices'.

Kind regards

Fiona Headrick
Manager Information Release

Legal Services
Department of Education

P: 07 3513 5870
E: [email address]
Level 22 | Education House | 30 Mary Street | Brisbane QLD 4000
PO Box 15033 | City East QLD 4002

Please consider the environment before printing this email.

IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person or persons it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this e-mail without appropriate authority.

If this e-mail was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or e-mail me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this e-mail and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail is not waived or destroyed by that mistake.

It is your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system).

show quoted sections

Good afternoon,

I am advised that the specific information you have requested is unable to be generated into a list without requiring manual cross-checking with each individual school. You may therefore wish to contact individual schools to request this information.

Alternatively, you can lodge a formal application under the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld). However given the number of Queensland schools, the Department will consider whether the processing of a formal application would require significant resources and considerable time to complete, and therefore may refuse to deal with the application.

For further information regarding the right to information framework including lodging an application under the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld), I refer you to the online RTI portal available at: https://www.rti.qld.gov.au/

Kind Regards,

Caroline Cole
A/Manager, Information Release

Legal Services Branch
Department of Education

P: (07) 3513 5862
E: [email address]
Level 22 | Education House | 30 Mary Street | Brisbane QLD 4000

show quoted sections