Please can you provide me with the financial details of what the council spends on legal services with a breakdown for each area, covering the last 3 financial years, both internally and externally
We can confirm the following information:
| In-House legal team net costs | 20-21 | 21-22 | 22-23 |
| Safeguarding | £ 1,344,034.82 | £ 1,814,131.66 | £ 1,784,757.67 |
| Litigation | £ 301,483.09 | £ 308,142.50 | £ 378,431.31 |
| Conveyancing | £ 405,929.14 | £ 452,470.78 | £ 432,820.28 |
| Adult Social Care | £ 157,729.45 | £ 198,610.71 | £ 305,583.50 |
| Landcharges | -£ 237,494.84 | -£ 245,419.59 | -£ 187,602.52 |
| Management & Insurance teams | -£ 24,472.00 | £ 5,261.00 | -£ 82,943.00 |
| £ 1,947,209.66 | £ 2,533,197.06 | £ 2,631,047.24 | |
| Legal Disbursement costs | |||
| Integrated Adult Social Care | £ 88,470.88 | £ 153,553.57 | £ 265,682.55 |
| Public Health, Communities & Prosperity | £ 38,305.20 | £ 40,883.05 | £ 59,437.65 |
| Corporate Services | £ 122,717.95 | £ 160,192.19 | £ 77,731.60 |
| Children & Young people’s Futures | £ 2,363,739.23 | £ 1,953,647.62 | £ 2,027,163.57 |
| Climate Change, Environment & Transport | £ 112,315.86 | £ 134,951.68 | £ 174,856.55 |
| DCC led partnerships | £ 17,468.94 | £ 39,528.95 | £ 25,118.45 |
| £ 2,743,018.06 | £ 2,482,757.06 | £ 2,629,990.37 | |
| TOTAL | £ 4,690,227.72 | £ 5,015,954.12 | £ 5,261,037.61 |
We should clarify the following:
* All figures exclude external legal disbursements incurred by schools
* All external legal disbursements are ex-vat
* All in-house costs are net of any income received from schools / external customers