agency speand across social care within Portsmouth City Council

Dear Faye,
Thank you for your FOI request however to enable me to proceed I need a full name from you.
I shall look forward to hearing from you.

FOI Team
Portsmouth City Council

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[1]logo_engCustomer, Community and Democratic Services

Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone: 023 9268 8482

Fax: 023 9284 1327

Reference: FOI2011529

Dear Mrs Faye Stovell,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Thank you for your request for information received on 05/08/2011.

Your request is being considered and, subject to the points made below,
you will receive the information requested as promptly as possible within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

If we need to obtain more information from you in order to understand what
information you require, we will contact you. If this is the case, the 20
days time limit will not commence until your request has been clarified.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of certain
information. The City Council will consider whether any of these
exemptions apply and, where required by the Act, whether it is in the
public interest to release the information. If we have to make a public
interest test, the 20 day time limit might be extended. We will inform you
if the time scale has to be extended and if any information is withheld
and of your rights of appeal.

The City Council would like to make you aware that disclosure of
information obtained through FOIA is a disclosure into the public domain.

The City Council's standard approach is to provide the information in the
form in which we hold it. If you require alternative formats, e.g. audio,
large print, etc. or a different language, please let me know and we will
provide it if reasonably practicable to do so. If your request is a
question and we do not hold the answer in recorded form we will try and
provide an answer where we are able.

There may be a fee payable for this information request and we will send
you a Fees Notice if this is the case. Any fee must be paid before the
request is provided. The time between the issue of the Fees Notice and
receipt of payment is excluded from the calculation of the 20 working day
time limit.

Any personal information you provide in relation to this request will only
be used for the purposes of processing your request for information.

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri/Peter Harding (Job share)

Corporate Information Governance Officer.

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Customer, Community and Democratic Service

Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone: 023 9268 8482

Fax: 023 9284 1327

Our Ref: FOI2011529

Date: 25/08/2011

Dear Mrs Faye Stovell,

Further to our acknowledgement of your request, we need some clarification
from you so that we can provide you with an appropriate response.

Our Social Care Service has asked the following for clarification:

The specific breakdown required for temporary staff i.e. questions 1-7,

Does this refer to the specific posts cited at the top or does it refer to
any agency staff during the 2010 period?

Thanks

If you wish to telephone the office (on the number above) to talk through
this clarification, I would be more than happy to discuss the matter with
you.

The normal time limit for responding to a request for information, under
the Freedom of Information Act is 20 working days from the day after it is
received. However, where an authority reasonably requires further
information or clarification before it is able to respond to a request,
section 10(6)(b) of the FOIA specifies that the 20-day period for
compliance with the request begins when the authority receives the
information it requires to identify and locate the information requested.

The City Council would like to make you aware that if we do not receive
clarification within 30 days your request for information will be closed.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of some or
all of the information that you have requested. The City Council will
consider whether any of these exemptions apply and, where required by the
Act, whether it is in the public interest to release the information. If
we have to make a public interest test, the 20 working day time limit
might be extended. You will be informed if any information is withheld and
of your rights of appeal.

There may be a fee payable for this information and you will be informed
if this is the case. Any fee must be paid before the request is processed
and the information released. The 20 working day time clock will stop
until the fee is paid.

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri

Corporate Information Governance Officer

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Customer, Community and Democratic Service

Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone: 023 9268 8482

Fax: 023 9284 1327

Our Ref: FOI2011529

Date: 30/08/2011

Dear Faye Stovel,

Further to our acknowledgement of your request, we need some clarification
from you so that we can provide you with an appropriate response. HR have
asked the following:

Please can we request clarification around the information on the
following job titles, is for either agency workers or permanent staff
members?

Qualified Social Worker

Residential Support Workers

Occupational Therapists,

Thank you.

If you wish to telephone the office (on the number above) to talk through
this clarification, I would be more than happy to discuss the matter with
you.

The normal time limit for responding to a request for information, under
the Freedom of Information Act is 20 working days from the day after it is
received. However, where an authority reasonably requires further
information or clarification before it is able to respond to a request,
section 10(6)(b) of the FOIA specifies that the 20-day period for
compliance with the request begins when the authority receives the
information it requires to identify and locate the information requested.

The City Council would like to make you aware that if we do not receive
clarification within 30 days your request for information will be closed.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of some or
all of the information that you have requested. The City Council will
consider whether any of these exemptions apply and, where required by the
Act, whether it is in the public interest to release the information. If
we have to make a public interest test, the 20 working day time limit
might be extended. You will be informed if any information is withheld and
of your rights of appeal.

There may be a fee payable for this information and you will be informed
if this is the case. Any fee must be paid before the request is processed
and the information released. The 20 working day time clock will stop
until the fee is paid.

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri

Corporate Information Governance Officer

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Our Ref: FOI2011529

Date: 14/10/11

 

Dear Faye Stovell,

 

Thank you for your FOI request received 05/08/2011.  I am so sorry but we
are running late on our response to you which should be Monday 17^th
October.  However,  we are working on the Information to be provided to
you and hoping to be in a position to provide our response by Wednesday
Oct 19^th.

 

Please accept our apologies.

 

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Magri/Peter Harding (job share)

Corporate Information Governance Officer.
                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1]logo_engFOI Customer, Community and Democratic
Services                            

Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone:    023 9268 8482

Fax:                023 9284 1327

 

Our Ref: FOI2011529

 

Date:20 October 2011

Dear Mrs Stovell,     

                                   

INFORMATION REQUEST –

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 5 August 2011,
which was considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  Please
accept our sincere apologies for the delay in providing our response to
you.

However, I am sorry to say we have had a delay for the Financial
Information required for Questions 4 to 7 .  Once again please accept our
apologies for the delay and we shall provide this to you hoping by 4^th
November 2011.

 

In the meantime please see our response to the remainder of your FOI
request as follows:

 

 

In accordance with the Act, Portsmouth City Council confirms it holds in
part the information you are seeking. Before 1 September 2010, Portsmouth
City Council did not record data relating specifically to agency workers
and we are therefore only able to provide a response to your request in
relation to the last 4 months of 2010.  Additionally, as a Unitary
Authority, the only job categories we have are Social Workers, Support
Workers and Occupational Therapists.  We have therefore provided responses
to your questions on this basis:-

 

 

 

     1. Total Number of staff Directly employed across the council per

     job type, by department

  

Service Area Job Type Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Occupational
Adult Social Care Therapist 20 20 21 21
Adult Social Care Social Worker 64 72 71 70
Adult Social Care Support Worker 27 29 29 29
Children's Social
Care Social Worker 81 87 80 79
Children's Social
Care Support Worker 3 5 3 3

 

 

 

 

     2. Number of temporary agency staff on placement within the council

     per job type, by department and by supplier

 

 

Randstad Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker 3 4 no info 3
Residential Support 8 18 no info 13
Reed Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info no info
Residential Support no info no info no info no info
 

 
Victory Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info no info
Residential Support no info no info no info no info
Staff 2000 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info 0
Residential Support no info no info no info 6
Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Grand total
Totals 42 55 32 57 186

 

 

    

 

3. Total Number of permanent jobs filled/resourced through

     recruitment agencies

 

Portsmouth City Council recruited 4 Qualified Social Workers from agencies
and they were recruited in Feb 2010, May 2010, Sep 2010 & Nov 2010.

 

TO BE PROVIDED

 

     4. Total Spend on direct employment across the council per job

     type, by department

 

     5. Total Spend on Temporary agency labour across the council, per

     job type, per department and by supplier

 

     6. Total spend on Permanent fees paid to Agencies

 

     7. Average Salary for each job role above based on results from

     2010 for direct staff and agency staff

 

Thank you.

 

Under the Re- Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 (SI
2005/1515) the supplied information may not be re-used without obtaining
the permission of Portsmouth City Council.

Portsmouth City Council in complying with their statutory duty under
sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act to release the
enclosed information, will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright holder of the enclosed
information will continue to be protected by the law.  If you wish to use
this information, you may require approval or licence from the copyright
holder.

 

You have the right to appeal against this decision or to complain about
our treatment of your request.  If you wish to do so, please set out in
writing your grounds of complaint and send to the Corporate Information
Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall
Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482, e-mail

[2][email address].

Should you be dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints decision you
may wish to follow the Portsmouth City Council’s Compliments and
Complaints procedure which can be found on the Portsmouth City Council
website or by contacting the Civic Offices.

 

Once these processes have been exhausted you have a further right of
appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner
at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Helen Magri/Peter Harding

Corporate Information Governance Officers

 

 

 

 

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Dear Mrs Stovell

 

Further to our partial response to your request, having liaised at length
with our Finance Team to establish how we can provide the remaining
information you require, I regret to advise you that this will not
possible within the 18 hours of officer time provided by the Freedom of
Information Act. 

 

To be able to provide the costs relating to the specific posts you have
identified would require the manual interrogation of the records of over
700 members of staff and, in accordance with Section 12 of the Act, we are
not therefore obliged to comply with this part of your request.

 

I am sorry we have been unable to assist you fully on this occasion, and
apologise again for the delay in reaching this conclusion.  I would wish
to reassure you of our very best intentions however, should you be
dissatisfied with the final outcome, our previous e-mail to you outlines
the process for pursuing the matter.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Helen Magri

Corporate Information Governance Officer

 

Portsmouth City Council

Civic Offices

Guildhall Square

Portsmouth

PO1 2BQ

 

T:  023 9268 8482

E:  [email address]

E:  [Portsmouth City Council request email]

www.portsmouth.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

 

From: FoI
Sent: 28 October 2011 11:31
To: 'faye'
Subject: FOI2011529 - Part Response

 

 

[1]logo_engFOI Customer, Community and Democratic
Services                            

Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone:    023 9268 8482

Fax:                023 9284 1327

 

Our Ref: FOI2011529

 

Date:20 October 2011

 

Dear Mrs Stovell,     

                                   

INFORMATION REQUEST –

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 5 August 2011,
which was considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  Please
accept our sincere apologies for the delay in providing our response to
you.

However, I am sorry to say we have had a delay for the Financial
Information required for Questions 4 to 7 .  Once again please accept our
apologies for the delay and we shall provide this to you hoping by 4^th
November 2011.

 

In the meantime please see our response to the remainder of your FOI
request as follows:

 

 

In accordance with the Act, Portsmouth City Council confirms it holds in
part the information you are seeking. Before 1 September 2010, Portsmouth
City Council did not record data relating specifically to agency workers
and we are therefore only able to provide a response to your request in
relation to the last 4 months of 2010.  Additionally, as a Unitary
Authority, the only job categories we have are Social Workers, Support
Workers and Occupational Therapists.  We have therefore provided responses
to your questions on this basis:-

 

 

 

     1. Total Number of staff Directly employed across the council per

     job type, by department

  

Service Area Job Type Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Occupational
Adult Social Care Therapist 20 20 21 21
Adult Social Care Social Worker 64 72 71 70
Adult Social Care Support Worker 27 29 29 29
Children's Social
Care Social Worker 81 87 80 79
Children's Social
Care Support Worker 3 5 3 3

 

 

 

 

     2. Number of temporary agency staff on placement within the council

     per job type, by department and by supplier

 

 

Randstad Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker 3 4 no info 3
Residential Support 8 18 no info 13
Reed Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info no info
Residential Support no info no info no info no info
 

 
Victory Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info no info
Residential Support no info no info no info no info
Staff 2000 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10
Social Worker no info no info no info 0
Residential Support no info no info no info 6
Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Grand total
Totals 42 55 32 57 186

 

 

    

 

3. Total Number of permanent jobs filled/resourced through

     recruitment agencies

 

Portsmouth City Council recruited 4 Qualified Social Workers from agencies
and they were recruited in Feb 2010, May 2010, Sep 2010 & Nov 2010.

 

TO BE PROVIDED

 

     4. Total Spend on direct employment across the council per job

     type, by department

 

     5. Total Spend on Temporary agency labour across the council, per

     job type, per department and by supplier

 

     6. Total spend on Permanent fees paid to Agencies

 

     7. Average Salary for each job role above based on results from

     2010 for direct staff and agency staff

 

Thank you.

 

Under the Re- Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 (SI
2005/1515) the supplied information may not be re-used without obtaining
the permission of Portsmouth City Council.

Portsmouth City Council in complying with their statutory duty under
sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act to release the
enclosed information, will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents
Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright holder of the enclosed
information will continue to be protected by the law.  If you wish to use
this information, you may require approval or licence from the copyright
holder.

 

You have the right to appeal against this decision or to complain about
our treatment of your request.  If you wish to do so, please set out in
writing your grounds of complaint and send to the Corporate Information
Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall
Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482, e-mail

[2][email address].

Should you be dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints decision you
may wish to follow the Portsmouth City Council’s Compliments and
Complaints procedure which can be found on the Portsmouth City Council
website or by contacting the Civic Offices.

 

Once these processes have been exhausted you have a further right of
appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner
at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Helen Magri/Peter Harding

Corporate Information Governance Officers

 

 

 

 

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