Can you provide the total cost of the council spend on children’s social worker agency staff in each of the past five calendar years, and the names of the companies the payments were made to?
The total cost of the council spend on children’s social worker agency staff in each of the past five calendar years is as follows:
| Agency | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total |
| Total Spent | £2,099,983.80 | £2,786,808.70 | £4,474,977.80 | £4,987,510.82 | £5,460,072.67 | £19,809,353.79 |
The names of the companies the payments were made to, in alphabetical order, are as follows:
| **DNU** Medicare First Limited |
| 4 Recruitment Services Limited |
| Ackerman Pierce Limited |
| AIR (UK) Consultancy Services Limited t/a AIR Social Care |
| Aurora Resourcing Limited |
| BWR Recruitment Limited t/a Total Social |
| Care Recruitment UK Limited |
| Caritas Recruitment Limited |
| Charles Hunter Associates Limited |
| Commercial Services Trading Limited t/a Connect2Staff |
| Diverse Rec Limited t/a Social Personnel |
| DNU – HCL Social Care Limited |
| Eden Brown Limited |
| ERG Group Limited |
| Evergood Associates Limited |
| HCL Workforce Solutions Limited |
| Hojona Limited |
| Liquid Personnel Limited |
| Maxxima Limited t/a Labmed Recruitment |
| NonStop Consulting Limited |
| Parker Rose Recruitment Limited |
| Pertemps Professional Recruitment Limited |
| PharmEng Limited t/a Locum Express Medical |
| Pixel Personnel Limited |
| Randstad Public Services Limited |
| Recruitment Team Nine Limited |
| Red Sector Recruitment limited |
| Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited |
| Sanctuary Personnel Limited |
| Sensus Associates Limited |
| Service Care Solutions Limited |
| Seven Resourcing Limited |
| SW Locums Limited |
| Tempest Resourcing Limited |
| Tripod Partners Limited |
| Triumph Consultants Limited |