Eric Blair
Legal & Democratic Services
Via Email
Direct Line – 020 7525 7511
[FOI #7802 email]
Fax – 020 7525 7675
[Southwark Borough Council request email]
25 March 2009
Dear Eric Blair
Re: Your Appeal request for information: Ref No. FOI 3533(0)
We have considered your appeal against the response to your original Freedom of
Information Act request number Ref No: 3533 received on 9 February 2009. Your
appeal has been dealt with in accordance with our appeal procedure and the matter fully
considered.
The information that you requested
“Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales
FOI Act: (Freedom of Information Act 2000)
Contracts or equivalent information/documents
Copies of any contracts you have for the provision of
temporary worker agency staff, with regards agency/temporary social
care/social worker staff/workers. Contracts you may have with
individual agency staff recruitment businesses/services, hereafter
called 'Vendors'. Or contracts you may have with organisations
like, Comensura, Manpower, Reed, hereafter called 'Managed Service
Provider' who provide Master/Vendor Neutral framework to managed
all vendors on behalf of Public Authorities like yourselves.”
After careful consideration of your appeal and applied the public interest test, it is not in
the public interest to disclose the information requested. We remain of the view that the
reasons for our refusal to provide this information as set our letter of 12 March 2009
remains unchanged.
The agreed rates are commercially sensitive and cannot therefore be disclosed.
In light of the above your appeal is unsuccessful.
If you are not content with the outcome 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
Legal & Democratic Services, Floor 3 ,Town Hall, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UB
Switchboard - 020 7525 5000
Website - www.southwark.gov.uk
Chief Executive – Annie Shepperd
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
Internet: www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours sincerely,
Norman Coombe
Principal Lawyer
Governance Team
Legal & Democratic Services
Legal & Democratic Services, Floor 3 ,Town Hall, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UB
Switchboard - 020 7525 5000
Website - www.southwark.gov.uk
Chief Executive – Annie Shepperd
