Reference: RFI 2426
Schools temporary staffing cover
Request:
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in North Tyneside LEA to third parties
in relation to temporary staffing cover. My hope is to receive an electronic breakdown of
amounts paid through the department's purchase ledger by school.
Notes:
1. I would like the information in electronic format. This should avoid any printing cost
issues.
2. In order to avoid your having to collate information from peripheral systems, I am
willing to accept information only from your main system (I would like you to advise
which system this is). By main system I mean the system that handles the largest
part of the department's expenditure. If supplier payments are made through
separate systems, then I would like you to choose the main system for each.
3. The information I require for each school is: School Name; Supplier name and total
amount paid.
4. I would like the information to cover the year 2008/9. I will accept 2007/8 figures if
this is not possible.
Response:
We are unable to provide the information in the detail requested. Please see below
answers to some of questions
1. All schools hold this information in their MIS systems. The local authority does not
have details on this spend in its systems. Therefore to obtain this information it
would be necessary for you to contact each school directly.
2. Schools have their own bank accounts and hold all supplier payment details.
Please see above.
3. As each school hold this data this would need to be supplied by each school.
Please see above.
4. All schools are required to produce a report at year end called Consistent Financial
Reporting (CFR) which reports all income and expenditure. This information is
produced by schools and published on the DCSF benchmarking website. This
expenditure is shown as the total amount spent in year, it does not show any break
down by supplier. The code which identifies the spend for supply teacher cover is
"Code E26
Agency Supply Staff " - this is the costs for teaching staff cover paid to an agency,
this includes cover for all reasons e.g. maternity, illness, training
The information supplied to you is owned by the council unless otherwise stated and may be protected by
copyright. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research or for the
purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use of a commercial nature will require the permission of the
Council. Further enquiries in this respect should be directed to Head of Legal Services, North Tyneside
Council, Quadrant The Silver Link North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY
Date: 04/03/2010
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Reference: RFI 2426
Schools temporary staffing cover
From CFR in 2008-09 the total amount paid by all schools to third parties for
teaching cover is £ 2231989
The information supplied to you is owned by the council unless otherwise stated and may be protected by
copyright. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research or for the
purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use of a commercial nature will require the permission of the
Council. Further enquiries in this respect should be directed to Head of Legal Services, North Tyneside
Council, Quadrant The Silver Link North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY
Date: 04/03/2010
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