Informal employee job shadowing scheme

Request

Please provide:
1. Confirmation of whether you currently operate a formal or informal employee job shadowing scheme, framework or process.
2. A description of how it works, including eligibility, duration, scope, approvals and how employees are matched with hosts or opportunities.
3. Copies of any relevant policies, guidance, forms, templates, toolkits, intranet content or process documents.
4. Details of the team responsible for managing the arrangement and how it is governed.
5. Details of any technology used to advertise, match, approve, record or evaluate opportunities, including the system or platform name.
6. An explanation of how line manager approval, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, accessibility and reasonable adjustments are managed.
7. Details of any learning objectives, feedback, reflection or evaluation completed before or after shadowing.
8. Participation figures for the last three available financial years, if held.
9. Details of any measures of success, benefits, challenges or lessons learned.
10. If you do not currently offer shadowing, confirmation of whether you have previously done so or have plans to introduce it.

Decision

1. Lincolnshire County Council does not currently operate a formal employee job shadowing scheme, framework or process. Whilst job shadowing may occasionally occur on an informal basis within individual directorates, there is no corporate scheme or structured process in place.

2. Not applicable. The Council does not operate a formal or structured job shadowing scheme.

3. The Council does not hold any policies, guidance, forms, templates, toolkits, intranet content or process documents relating to a formal job shadowing scheme.

4. Not applicable. There is no centrally managed job shadowing arrangement.

5. Not applicable. No technology or platform is used for this purpose as there is no formal job shadowing scheme.

6-7. Not applicable. The Council does not operate a formal job shadowing scheme.

8. The Council does not hold employee participation figures for job shadowing as there is no centrally managed or recorded scheme.

9. The Council does not hold this information as there is no formal job shadowing scheme in place.

10. The Council has not previously operated a formal employee job shadowing scheme and currently has no plans to introduce one. I trust this information is helpful. If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you may request an internal review in accordance with the Council's Freedom of Information complaints procedure.

Reference number
FOI 17724961
Date request received
24/08/26
Date of decision
22/09/26