Response A1345230
Response to request for information
Reference
A1345230
Response date
11 June 2021
Request
Information about access your local authority has to ecological expertise in-house.
"In-house ecological expertise" is defined as those who are employed by the council on a part-time or full-time basis and who have Chartered Ecological status (CEcol).
In March 2018, it was revealed that only 1 in 4 councils had access to some form of ecological expertise within their own teams. Would you please tell me how many chartered ecologists the council has employed over the last three years between May 2018 to May 2021?
Would you please provide this figure in terms of FTE equivalence. I would prefer to receive this information electronically, preferably as a data set in Excel and not as a PDF, to include the following information as set out below. If the information is not possible to put into a spreadsheet, please provide the information in its existing format, rather than rejecting this FOI request.
For example, if you have employed only one chartered ecologist 2.5 days a week over the past three years the FTE figure = 0.5
2018-2019 chartered 2019-2020 chartered 2020-2021 chartered
As a second part to this request would you please also tell me how many "other environmental experts" the council employs, who are either unchartered but hold a position as an environmentalist or hold chartered status in a related discipline e.g. someone who holds Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) status. Would you please also provide this figure in terms of FTE equivalence. For example, if you employed one chartered environmentalist and one unchartered environmental expert full-time between May 2018 - May 2020 but then lost one of these between May 2020 - May 2021 then the FTE figure would be as follows:
2018-2019 other expertise 2019-2020 other expertise 2020-2021 other expertise
Response
Part-time or full-time basis and who have Chartered Ecological status (CEcol)
- 2018-2019 chartered = 0
- 2019-2020 chartered = 0
- 2020-2021 chartered = 0
As a second part to this request would you please also tell me how many "other environmental experts" the council employs, who are either unchartered but hold a position as an environmentalist or hold chartered status in a related discipline e.g. someone who holds Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) status. Would you please also provide this figure in terms of FTE equivalence. For example, if you employed one chartered environmentalist and one unchartered environmental expert full-time between May 2018 - May 2020 but then lost one of these between May 2020- May 2021 then the FTE figure would be as follows:
- 2018-2019 other expertise = 0.6
- 2019-2020 other expertise = 0.6
- 2020-2021 other expertise = 0.8