Disclosure Log

Internship Schemes (FOI/5169)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 07 January 2025

Dear ***** *****                                                            

Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00005169

Thank you for email of 18th December 2024 where you requested information about Internship Schemes. The response to your request is provided below.

In your request you asked:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information regarding internship schemes run or facilitated by the council over the last four years:
  1. Details of Internship Schemes:
    • A list of all internship schemes, including the year(s) they operated, the number of placements offered, and the departments or services involved.
  2. Eligibility Requirements:
    • A full breakdown of all requirements for applicants, including:
      • Age restrictions or criteria.
      • Any specifications based on ethnicity, religion, or other personal and protected characteristics.

Summer Internship - has been running since 2018 - offers four placements a year across the Council departments. Runs June - Sept.
The Summer Internship Programme is available to anybody who identifies as disabled or with a long term health condition and is currently at university. The scheme is restricted to Nottinghamshire residents or students at either Nottingham Trent University or University of Nottingham.

SEND Internships - currently in our third year. Runs from November for six months
One placement in 2023
Two placements in 2024
Six placements available for start in November 2025
SEND Internships are for young people with SEND who are attending educational provision for access to work.

Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.  Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.

Yours sincerely

The Complaints and Information Team
Nottinghamshire County Council