Can I request the following for the year 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024?
1. What is the total size of your organisation? Based on organisation Assignment Count (data shows local authorities can have employees holding more than one assignment), excluding schools, fire, and agency workers?
5289
2. Of the assignments counted above what is the Full Time Equivalent (sometimes known as whole time equivalent)?
4611.49
3. What is your assignment count of temporary/agency Workers? (excluding schools and fire)
477
4. Of the Agency Worker assignments counted above what is the Full Time Equivalent (sometimes known as whole time equivalent)?
190.13
5. What was your overall staff turnover rate (excluding TUPE leavers and agency workers)?
11.2%
6. What was your voluntary staff turnover rate (excluding agency workers)?
10.7%
7. In the financial year 2023/24 what was the total agency worker spend (excluding expenses)?
£18,601,246
8. How many open vacancies are you currently recruiting to? (Please inform whether this includes agency workers).
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. There are currently 66 external adverts alone. Manually investigating the number of vacancies each advert represented would take an estimated 15 minutes per advert which is 16.5 hours, alongside taking the time taken to investigate vacancies arising from restructures, temp bank cover etc which would exceed 1.5 hours and take it over the 18 hours of officer time.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.
9. What is your average time to hire, calculated from open requisition to offer? (calendar days)
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. There are currently 398 open requisitions on our system, to review one to establish the number of days between the requisition being raised and the applicant being made an offer would take approximately 10 minutes and this would total 66.3 hours to review all requisitions.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.