1.Please provide the pay and grading structure used by your authority for National Joint Council (NJC) workers only, including any local extension of the pay spine. This is available at The council, staffing and pay- facts and figures 2. Please provide … Continue reading
Human resources (HR)
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Full time and agency social workers – employment and spend – 2019 to date
Please could I ask the following questions regarding Children’s Services under the Freedom of Information Act: 1. How many full-time staff social workers are currently employed in the children’s services department? 189.25 FTE Social Workers. 2. How many locum/agency social … Continue reading
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Digital Social Prescribing
Does the Council have any plans to procure a digital social prescribing platform in 2022/2023? No Does the Council have any current vacancies in the a) IT and/or b) Digital Transformation teams? Yes
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Temporary Staff from Recruitment Agencies
1) What was the value of spend on temporary staff from recruitment agencies by the Council in 2020 – 2021 and 2021 – 2022? Please also ensure that a gross spend value is detailed and include all spend associated to … Continue reading
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Child protection Social Workers and agency staff – 2022
1. In total, how many frontline child protection social workers work for the council (whether employed or agency) as of 1 March 2022? 69.4 FTE. a. How many and what percentage are agency staff? 46.2 employee social workers and 23.2 … Continue reading
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Fraud suspensions 2017 to 28th February 2022
Could you please disclose how many council employees have been suspended over allegations of fraud? How many of those were suspended on full pay? If you are able to, please provide some detail on the type of fraud committed. Please … Continue reading
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Social Worker employment – 2017-2021
1. What was your staff turnover rate for registered social workers working in child protection or with children in need in each of the following years? (Where staff turnover is calculated as the headcount of full-time equivalent (FTE) registered social … Continue reading
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Staff sickness for stress related illness – 2017-2021
I would like to know the number of days taken off by staff reporting sickness absence with a reason of anxiety, stress, depression or other psychiatric illness. I would like this information for each of the last five calendar years … Continue reading
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Consultancy Spend
1. Please state the amount your local authority has spent with consultancy firms in each of the last five financial years and the current financial year to date. YEAR TOTAL SPENT £ 2021-22 to date 123,263 2020-21 405,768 2019-20 244,207 … Continue reading
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Online teacher recruitment – 2019-2020
1. Do you provide an online teacher recruitment advertising service for schools? Yes 2. If this is not provided directly by the local authority, does another organisation provide this on the local authority? If so, who? N/A See Above 3. … Continue reading