Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales

Eric Blair made this Freedom of Information request to Newham Borough Council

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From: Eric Blair

8 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales

Please send me an electronic copy, (see accessibility notes below)
via http://www.whatdotheyknow.com, 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. A
sample FOI disclosed Managed Service Provider agreement can be
downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/mastervendorc...

:- 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. Sample FOI disclosed pay scale/rates information can be
downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/agencypayscal...

:- Panel Vendor Agreement or equivalent information/documents

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. A sample FOI
disclosed Panel Vendor Agreement can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/panelvendorag...

To help clarify these requests 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, you can download:

A sample FOI disclosed Panel Vendor Agreement can be downloaded
via:
http://www.filedropper.com/panelvendorag...

and

Sample FOI disclosed pay scale/rates information can be downloaded
via:
http://www.filedropper.com/agencypayscal...

A sample FOI disclosed Managed Service Provider agreement can be
downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/mastervendorc...

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). Accessibility
information can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader and with regards PDF's
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessib... -
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/so...

Yours faithfully,

Eric Blair

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Newham Borough Council

8 February 2009

REQUESTER REFERENCE: C2171
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E3570
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received on 08/02/2009. We are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 10/03/2009.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information Governance Team on 020 8430 3737 or email us at: [Newham Borough Council request email]

Yours Faithfully

Information Governance Team
Newham Council

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From: Eric Blair

9 February 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

REQUESTER REFERENCE: C2171
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E3570

I am writing to clarify/amend a part of my information
request,Section 1.2, with regards payscale information.

This part of my original request stated:

":- 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 a 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."

Please also add after the word 'framework':

If you do you use a Managed Service Provider please also provide a
copy of the pay-scales/rates that are used by the Managed Service
Provider to manage all these Vendors.

Therefore section 1.2 should now read thus:

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 a Managed Service Provider framework. If you do you
use a Managed Service Provider please also provide a copy of the
pay-scales/rates that are used by the Managed Service Provider to
manage all these Vendors. Please ensure any provided pay-scale
information provided explains how many years of experience is
required to be applicable to any specific hourly rate.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

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From: Eric Blair

10 March 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Newham Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Agency worker: Agreements,
Contracts, pay scales'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ag...

This request is currently overdue, by law, the response had to be
prompt but no later than 9 March 2009

Related disclosures already made:

Halton Council
"Thank you for providing the information requested
and doing so in such a short time of 7 working days."
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Newham Council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ag...

Liverpool Council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/di...

Kingston upon Thames Borough Council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ag...

Telford & Wrekin Council
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

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Newham Borough Council

11 March 2009

Dear Mr. Blair,

Thank you for your message and we apologise for our late response.

We are sorry for the delay and will respond before 24th March 2009 in accordance with our FOI appeal procedure.

Regards

Information Governance
Newham Council

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Mirrorball left an annotation (11 March 2009)

This is an absolute disgrace. They are continually failing to repond to FOI requests. Please make sure you report them to the Information Commissioner.

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Newham Borough Council

31 March 2009

Attachment Information Supplied Template.doc
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Attachment Newham MAST Contract 20050527 1.doc
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Attachment Newham MAST Preferred Supplier Agreement March 2008.pdf
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can submit an appeal. This process is in three stages and is carried out
by one of Newham's Service Managers, the Head of Information Governance
Team and the Corporate Complaints Manager, respectively.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Information Governance- ICT

Newham Dockside

1000 Dockside Road

London

E16 2QU

Tel: - 0208-430-2000 Email:- [1][Newham Borough Council request email]
Fax :- 020 8430 1504

NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.

However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.

You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 0208 430 4444 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
and therefore maybe at risk.

We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure
that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems.
Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.

The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your
reply cannot be guaranteed.

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