FOI20/21 093 Log of Contacts - SQA and Education Secretary

Date published: 14/01/2021

FOI reference: 20/21 093

Date received: 17/08/2020

Date responded: 14/01/2021

Information requested

Please provide details of all contact between the Education Secretary, John Swinney, or his officials or special advisers and Chief Executive of the SQA, Fiona Robertson, or other SQA staff or board members between 19 March and 11 August 2020

Response

A log of all diarised contact between SQA's Executive Management Team, Board and Heads of Service and the Education Secretary, John Swinney, his officials and special advisers is provided in the attached file.  Note there are 4 tabs to break down attendance at the key meetings, of which SQA and John Swinney or his officials, are represented.  These are the Further and Higher Education Covid-19 Ministerial Leadership Group (MLG), Covid-19 Education Recovery Group (CERG) and Qualifications Contingency Group (QCG).

In addition to the dates provided, colleagues from the Scottish Government's Learning Directorate, Advanced Learning and Science Directorate, and SQA met virtually on a regular basis, throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic. Due to an administrative change, SQA no longer holds a record of many of these meetings between April and June.

Documents:

Log of Contacts (27 KB)