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Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council
Also known as ABC Council
Local authority for the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon borough in Northern Ireland, responsible for services including environmental health, planning, building control, leisure, waste, parks, tourism and community development.
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- FOI email addressLink reachableChecked 8 September 2026
- FOI page or formLink reachableChecked 9 September 2026Automatically updated from https://www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/resident/freedom-of-information/
- Official websiteLink reachableChecked 9 September 2026
- FOI email
- foi@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk
- Official FOI page or form
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- Official website
- https://www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/
- Contact status
- Unverified
- Mapping status
- Response Received
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- Details last checked
- 13 August 2026
- Mapping information last updated
- 13 August 2026
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- Spending and contracts
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Council Information Map
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council — Information & Accountability Map
Mapping who runs council services, who owns the information, and where accountability sits.
Key finding
19 Council Departments — But No Central Register of Organisations Delivering Services
“We do not have a central register of all organisations that provide services on behalf of the Council, under contract with Council, through partnership arrangements, or via arm's-length bodies.”
This does not mean the Council does not know about individual contracts, partnerships or service providers.
It means the Council says there is no single central register that answers this request, and that answering it would require manual searches across its departments.
- 1Council
- 219 Departments
- 3Departmental Records
- 4Contractors / Partners / Service Providers
No single central map identified
“The Council says information would need to be reconstructed through searches of individual departmental records.”
FOI result dashboard
What the request produced
Organisational structure
The Council provided access to its organisational management structure (Effective from April 2025), applying Section 21 because the document is already publicly available.
Departments / service areas
The management structure identifies senior directorates, departments and responsible roles. It does not itself list every service area with a matching job title.
Organisations delivering council services
The Council says identifying all relevant organisations would require manual searches across 19 departments and exceed the FOI cost limit.
Central outsourced-service information register
The Council states it does not hold one register or directory identifying which organisations hold information on its behalf in connection with outsourced or commissioned services.
Information Asset Owner register
The Council does not hold a list, register or directory of Information Asset Owners, Information Owners or Data Owners.
However, the Council confirmed: Heads of Departments are the Council's Information Asset Owners.
Organisational map
Who runs the Council's services
Taken from the Council's Organisational Management Structure, effective from April 2025. Reporting relationships beyond those shown on the chart are not inferred.
Senior structure
Chief Executive
Roger Wilson
Deputy Chief Executive
Charlene Stoops
Legal, Governance & Monitoring Officer
Kate McCusker
Communications & Branding Manager
Claire Shields
Interim communications arrangements are shown in the supplied chart.
Civil Contingencies
Joan McCaffrey
Central functions shown on the chart
- Finance, Procurement & ICTDominic Donnelly
- HR & Organisational DevelopmentNiamh Shannon
- Corporate Programme Management (PMO)Sam Dalzell
- Strategy & PerformanceMartina McNulty
- Community Planning, Policy & ResearchElaine Gillespie
- Internal AuditCarol Rafferty
Health & Recreation
Head: Darryn Causby
Information Asset OwnerCommunity Development
Head: Ruth Allen
Information Asset OwnerTourism, Arts & Culture
Head: Brian Johnston
Information Asset OwnerEconomic Development
Head: Nicola Wilson
Information Asset Owner
Environmental Health
Head: Gillian Topping
Information Asset OwnerPlanning
Head: Damian Mulligan
Information Asset OwnerBuilding Control
Head: Tom Lavery
Information Asset OwnerEstates & Asset Management
Head: Mark Halliday
Information Asset Owner
Environmental Services
Head: Martin Towe (Interim) · Lisa Doherty
Information Asset OwnerTwo names appear under Environmental Services on the supplied chart. PublicAudit.uk does not infer why.
Climate, Sustainability & Parks
Head: Claire Duddy
Information Asset Owner
Outsourcing transparency gap
Who delivers services outside the Council?
Central consolidated list: Not provided
The Council said it does not have a central register covering all organisations providing services on its behalf, under contract, through partnerships or through arm's-length arrangements.
It said each of its 19 departments would need to search its own records.
The finding is about the absence of a central consolidated register answering this request — not about the Council being unaware of its own contractors and partners.
Step 1
19 Council departments
Step 2
Individual record stores
Each department holds its own contract, partnership and service records.
Step 3
External organisations delivering services
Known to the departments that manage them — but not listed together in one central register.
Exemptions applied
Why some information wasn't provided
Information held on behalf of the Council
Is there a central directory showing which external organisations hold Council information?
NO DOCUMENT LOCATED
The Council says it searched its records but did not locate a register, directory or document identifying which organisations hold information on its behalf in connection with outsourced or commissioned services.
This matters directly to the objective of this site: identifying where public information actually resides once services are delivered by other organisations.
Why this matters
Who actually holds the information?
When public services involve contractors, charities, partnerships or other organisations, members of the public can face a basic problem:
Who actually holds the information?
- 1Citizen
- 2Council
- 3Department
- 4Contractor / Partner
- 5Information
PublicAudit.uk is trying to map that chain.
Structured record
Comparable fields for this council
Every council added to the Council Information Map is recorded using the same fields, so responses can be compared side by side.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Council | Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council |
| Nation | Northern Ireland |
| FOI reference | IR-2627-276 |
| Response date | 10 August 2026 |
| Departments referenced by Council | 19 |
| Organisation chart available | Yes |
| Central contractor / service-provider register | Council says no central register answering the request |
| Outsourced information-holder register | Not held / no document located |
| Information Asset Owner register | No |
| Information Asset Owner model | Heads of Departments |
| Section 12 applied | Yes — service-provider / partner organisation element |
| Section 21 applied | Yes — organisational structure, already publicly accessible |
| Organisational structure URL | armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Organisational-Management-Structure-April-2025.pdf |
| FOI route | Council Information Governance team (email response) |
| Source document | FOI response IR-2627-276 (PDF) |
| Last verified | 13 August 2026 |
Future national comparison
How does this council compare?
These counters update as more Council Information Map responses are published.
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Councils surveyed
0
Central contractor maps
0
Information Asset Owner registers
1
Councils requiring departmental searches
1
Section 12 refusals
Sources
- Primary source
- Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council
- Freedom of Information response
- IR-2627-276 · requested 27 July 2026 · responded 10 August 2026
- Also referenced
- Organisational Management Structure — Effective from April 2025
Statements marked Council response are the Council's own words or formal position. Statements marked PublicAudit.uk analysis are our interpretation and are never presented as Council statements.
Mapping progress
- 27 July 2026Mapping request sent
- 10 August 2026Response received
FOI IR-2627-276 (10 August 2026): the Council released its Organisational Management Structure (April 2025) under Section 21 as already published, refused the list of organisations delivering services on its behalf under Section 12 because all 19 departments would need to search records manually, and confirmed it holds no central register of outsourced information holders and no Information Asset Owner register — stating instead that its Information Asset Owners are its Heads of Departments.
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