Spending by school on temporary staffing cover

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Dear Mr D Boucher,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000: IGT_FOI_01_2635 - Spending by school on
temporary staffing cover

Your request for information dated 26^th January 2010 has been considered
under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and the
information is below.

I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in Tower Hamlets to
third parties in relation to temporary staffing cover.

My hope is to receive an electronic breakdown of amounts paid

(a) Through the department's purchase ledger by school and

(b) In grants, by grantee.

Notes:

1. In order to avoid your having to collate information from peripheral
systems, I am willing to accept information only from your main system (I
would like you to advise which system this is).

By main system I mean the system that handles the largest part of the
department's expenditure. If grants and supplier payments are made through
separate systems, then I would like you to choose the main system for
each.

2. The information I require for each supplier/grantee is: Supplier name
and total amount paid.

3. I would like the information to cover the year 2008/9. I would accept
2007/8 figures if this is not possible.

The CFR (Consistent Financial Reporting) framework summarises school level
financial information into headings. Some of these headings have been
designed for benchmarking and some are included to meet the wider
commitment of CFR - that it would be the main source of information about
how schools have spent their resources.

The request for resources spent on Agency workers is not available via the
Local Authority main Finance system; however the CFR monitoring framework
can provide some information. (Available through DCSF website) - Schools
retain all information in respect of expenditure in their Local Systems.
(RM, Sims, Phoenix etc)

This information we can provide contains the cost of "Agency workers" to
cover for illness including maternity cover and cover for non-teaching
staff, supply of teachers for standards funds and cover for extended
services; these are all categorised under the same heading. (CFR E02 and
CFR E26)

The information provided by the CFR returns on the expenditure codes above
for all Tower Hamlet schools in the financial year 08-09 was £6.9
Million.

Yours sincerely,

Samir Kamil

Strategy team

Strategy, Partnership & performance

Children, Schools and Families Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14 2BG

Tel: 0207 364 2159

Fax: 020 7364 5928

Email: [1][email address]

Web: [2]www.childrenandfamiliestrust.co.uk

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Dear Mr Boucher

Thank you for your follow up to the Freedom of Information request you
made regarding school spending on temporary staff. I have looked into the
details of this and the figures we hold are provided to us by schools
based on the Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) cost codes. Although the
figures are available on the DCSF website, it seems as though there may
have been some confusion in the figure provided and being able to provide
a breakdown.

As requested, I have attached the latest figures broken down by school,
which are available to the council via the CFR. Please accept our
apologies for the confusion in dealing with your initial request.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further Freedom of
Information requests

Kind regards

Redouane Serroukh
Information Governance Officer

The Strategy Team
Strategy, Partnerships and Performance

Children, Schools and Families Directorate
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Mulberry Place
5 Clover Crescent
London E14 2BG

Tel: 0207 364 6570
Email: [1][email address]

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