FOI request (FOIR-751692437)

Qualification Requirements for Statutory Officers

Requested Wed 24 September 2025
Responded Fri 10 October 2025

1. When recruiting CEOs or monitoring officers (including deputies), what legal qualifications (if any) do you require?

2. Do you accept CILEX Fellow status as a legal qualification to be equivalent to solicitors and barristers in their area of specialism, for the purposes of recruitment?

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Response

The Freedom of Information Act is based on recorded information held by a local authority, it is not a tool to ask questions.

1.

Chief Executive - Information not held - Hastings Borough Council has not advertised this position in a long time.

Monitoring Officer - Law Society Practising Certificate or Bar Standards Practising Certificate, Degree or formal management qualification.

2. Information not held. This is a question and not a request for recorded information.