160 Tooley Street
D Boucher
PO BOX 64529
London
SE1P 5LX
Email –
By Email: request-30232-
[email address]
[email address]
Tel: 020 7525 5249
Fax: 020 7525 3955
Website - www.southwark.gov.uk
10 March 2010
Dear D Boucher,
Re: Your request for information: 4911
Thank you for your request for information received on 5 March
2010 in which you
requested:
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in Southwark 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.
I am unable to supply the information you have requested as it is not held by
Southwark Council. Payments for agency staff are made by individual schools from
their own budgets, and are not required to be reported to Southwark Council. You
would need to contact the schools themselves for this information; a list of schools in
Southwark is available from the DirectGov website at
http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/la/Southwark. For Freedom of Information Act
purposes, maintained schools are defined as public authorities in Schedule 1 of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please note that while in some local authorities schools use the authority financial
software to make supplier payments, meaning that this information can be extracted
centrally, this is not the case in Southwark, where schools make all payments from
their own local accounting systems and local bank accounts.
If you have any queries or concerns then please contact us using the above details.
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and
wish to make an appeal for a review of our decision, you should write to the Corporate
Freedom of Information Manager at:
Corporate Freedom of Information Manager
Southwark Council
160 Tooley Street
PO BOX 64529
London
SE1P 5LX
Email: [Southwark Borough Council request email]
If you are not content with the outcome of your appeal you may apply directly to the
Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Information Commissioner
cannot make a decision unless you have first exhausted our internal appeal procedure
and you should contact him within 2 months of the outcome of your internal appeal.
Further information on the Freedom of Information Act is available through the
Information Commissioner at the:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire.
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
Internet: www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours sincerely,
Sean Harrington
Information Governance Officer – Children’s Services