Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales

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:
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http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessib... -
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/so...

Yours faithfully,

Eric Blair

Dear Sir or Madam,

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

Dear Sir or Madam,

RE: FOI Reference Number: 3418

Further to a request to clarify, please narrow my request to
temporary agency staff undertaking the following roles:

1) Social Workers

2 Social Work Assistants

in relation to such staff working with Children's Services and or
Adult's Services

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

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 Westminster City
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Agency worker: Agreements,
Contracts, pay scales'.

You have failed to respond to my request in the 20 working days
allowed, other local authorities have responded such as:

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...

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

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

Dear Brinn, Mike,

Thank you for your responses thus far, with regards your opinion "I
am able to provide
you with a copy of the documentation but it is too large to send
via an
email."

can you advise me of the size of each individual electronic
document you wish to send me before I can suggest a method of
delivery.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

Dear Brinn, Mike,

RE: "...The document I refer to is 12mb PDF file"

Please send via email, as this document is not too big as the
largest file can be up to 50mb

IF you get a message delivery failure message, please forward me a
copy and I will then send you an alternative method to resolve
these yet unqualified difficulties.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

Dear Brinn, Mike,

You could break the file into two, which is quite easy, for PDF
just extract half, save and rename (part 1) and do the same for the
extracted part (part 2). The same process can be done with MS or
alike.

Otherwise please see:

"How can I send a large file, which won't go by email?#
Instead of email, you can respond to a request directly from your
web browser, including uploading a file. To do this, choose
"respond to request" at the bottom of the request's page. Contact
us if it is too big for even that (more than, say, 50Mb)."
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/about

Contact details:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/help/contact

Thanks for sending details of the error report, you could request
your IT department to increase you sending rights facilities. Also
you could send it internally to your Freedom of Information
Department and ask them to email it, as I doubt they have 10mb
sending limits, noting you indicate you are operating from your
Council's Parking Services.

The difficulties you mention are merely technical and involve
limits set in a way that I imagine could be easily amended without
any undue delay.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair