Agency

Dear Sir or Madam,

Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales

Please email me an electronic copy, (see accessibility notes below)
via my @whatdotheyknow.com address that you got this request from,
of the following information:

FOI Act: (Freedom of Information Act 2000)

:- Contracts or equivalent information/documents

1.1) 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.

:- Hourly Pay scales/rates with regards agency/temporary social
care/social worker staff.

1.2) A list of each Vendor you use and copies of hourly
pay-scales/rates you hold for each Vendor. Whether or not you use
each Vendor via Managed Service Provider framework. Please ensure
any provided pay-scale information provided explains how many years
of experience is required to be applicable to any specific hourly
rate.

1.3 A copy of any contract/agreement used by yourself or any
Managed Service Provider to manage individual Vendors through any
Master/Vendor Neutral framework you operate or participate in, this
is sometimes called a Panel Vendor Agreement.

Please also indicate whether any of the information requested 1.1,
1.2, 1.3 has ever been disclosed before under the FOI Act.

Acessibility notes: Information accessibility

To be able to use a computer Screen Reader
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader) with any information
you provide please provide the information in Microsoft Office Word
Document format (.Doc) or equivalents like WordPerfect and Open
Office Writer Please state explicitly if this format is not
available, if this format is not available please provide it in an
accessible Portable Document Format (PDF).

I have sent you a separate email that includes a copy of A
household bill that gives proof of my name, I have now closed this
account and can accept all email correspondence and FOI Act
disclosures via the email address [xxxxxxxxxxxxx@
whatdotheyknow.com] I sent this request under.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Ingram

Dear Sir or Madam,

In consideration of your Section 16 of the Freedom of Information
Act (2000) duty to provide me with advice and assistance, please
advise me through my @whatdotheyknow.com email address whether or
not the copy of the household bill I sent you
<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ag...> is
adequate proof for me to receive and make valid information
disclosure requests via my [email address] (@whatdotheyknow.com)
email address?

In your reply to this advice request please confirm and state
explicitly that I have fully complied with Section 8(1) of the
Freedom of Information Act (2000)?

Please reply promptly to this request for guidance and advice as
the 20 day deadline clock for your response is ticking.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Ingram

Dear Sir or Madam,

This is a reminder that your response was due on June 15th.

Yours sincerely,

Ben Ingram