1. Please can confirm your expenditure on agency staff for the most recent year available broken down by service and where the information is available also the role.
£19,277,163 for 2023/24.
Please refer to this spreadsheet for a breakdown of the spend by service area and job role.
2. Can you confirm if you use a vendor (such as Matrix) or engage with agencies directly?
Our agency Managed Service Provider (MSP) is Comensura.
3. Can you confirm which frameworks you use?
Our MSP was procured via the ESPO Framework – MSTAR4 (Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources)
4. Please confirm if you have any off-framework spend and the % of the total spend this represents.
£574,044 for 2023/24.
2.98%.