Education Scotland staff given permission to work abroad: FOI release

Information requested

Information on the number of staff who are allowed to work abroad for financial years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23:

• The number of staff, per year, given permission to work from abroad.
• For each member of staff granted permission, please provide their pay band, the country they have been allowed to work from, the length of time that they have been allowed to work for and the dates they were allowed to work from abroad. Please also provide the reason. If any of this is not possible to provide, please provide the remaining information.

Response

Please find below the information you have requested.

Year	Grade of Employee	Location	Duration	Reason
2020/21	C1	Turkey	28/08/20 – 07/09/20	Colleague applied for permission in the event that they were unable to return to UK due to COVID restrictions.
2012/22	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2022/23	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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