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From: Movya Makambwe
29 January 2012
Dear Sefton Borough Council,
Can you please:
1. Provide the number of qualified social workers supplied through
recruitment agencies, analysed by Children and Adult services
2. Provide information on the number of in-house residential units,
day care centres and supported living settings currently using
agency care / support workers, their locations, also analysed by
Children’s and Adult Services
3. Advise which of question 2 are expected to be closed in 2012?
4. Provide an organogram showing the Social Services Departments
within the Council Recruitment
Recruitment:
5. What current formal arrangements are in place with regards to
recruitment for Qualified Social Workers, Children’s Residential
Recruitment, Children’s Services and Adult Services?
7. When are these agreements (contracts) due to expire and who is
currently running the contract?
8. Who is the best person to speak to with regards to procurement?
Yours faithfully,
Movya Makambwe
From: Bernadette Jones
Sefton Borough Council
30 January 2012
Dear Movya
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
I acknowledge your request for information received on 30th January 2012.
Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by
the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the information not being
exempt or containing a reference to a third party.
For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions, which may
prevent release of the information you have requested. There will be an
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From: Catherine Larkin
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21 February 2012
Please find attached, a response to your recent Freedom of Information
request.
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secure communication medium and Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council does
not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was
sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to ensure that this
message is virus-free, it is the recipient's responsibility to carry out
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