Request ID: FOI-3827-2324 Date published: 09 February 2024
You asked
Please explain then the process by which the senior management team decided that Protection Approaches was a suitable candidate to carry out this training on behalf of TfL. It seems strange that a training supplier has been reimbursed £4,550 for running about a dozen zoom meetings. Has TfL ask for a breakdown of reimbursement costs from the charity, whose main business is selling DEI training?
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-3827-2324
Thank you for your further request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 23rd January 2024.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked the following, further to case FOI-3363-2324:
“Please explain then the process by which the senior management team decided that Protection Approaches was a suitable candidate to carry out this training on behalf of TfL. It seems strange that a training supplier has been reimbursed £4,550 for running about a dozen zoom meetings. Has TfL ask for a breakdown of reimbursement costs from the charity, whose main business is selling DEI training?”
I can confirm that we hold the information you require.
Protection Approaches and Britain's East and South East Asian Network (besea.n) were chosen to deliver the training, as they are a leading organisation in delivering hate crime active bystander training and have been funded by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), another member of the GLA Group. The one-off partnership was undertaken as part of business as usual activity during National Hate Crime Awareness Week and therefore subject to TfL’s usual internal approval process for amounts under £5,000. Protection Approaches provided an invoice for the training - the agreement was to deliver 8 active bystander sessions at a total cost of £4,550. This was to cover the cost of six sessions, in addition to two free of charge sessions funded under Protection Approaches’ Stronger Communities projects.
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