Use of Agency Social Professionals

A Elliott made this Freedom of Information request to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

The request was successful.

From: A Elliott

19 March 2010

Dear Bolton Borough Council,

Please provide me with:

1. a copy of the Comensura, "Neutral Vendor", contract and fee
schedules for recruitment to Bolton Borough Council

2. all agencies on the Comensura contract for the supply of social
workers, senior practitioners, assistant team managers, team
managers and service managers (referred to from now as "qualified
social work professionals") to Bolton Borough Council

3. all agencies currently supplying Bolton Borough Council with
agency social work professionals

4. the total number of qualified social work professionals
currently working on an agency basis at Bolton Borough Council

5. the number and grade of qualified social work professionals
currently working on an agency basis at Bolton Borough Council by
supplier

6. the number and grade of qualified social work professionals
currently working on an agency basis at Bolton Borough Council by
department

7. the pay and agency charge rate of each qualified social work
professional currently working on an agency basis at Bolton Borough
Council by department

8. the fiscal budget for qualified social work professional
recruitment through agencies for 2009-2010

9. the fiscal budget for qualified social work professional
recruitment through agencies for 2010-2011

10. the total fiscal spend on agency qualified social work
professionals by department for the last 12 months

11. the total fiscal spend on agency qualified social work
professionals by agency for the last 12 months

Yours faithfully,

A. Elliott

Yours faithfully,

A Elliott

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From: A Elliott

19 March 2010

Dear Bolton Borough Council,

Sorry the title for this request should have been Use of Agency
Social Work professionals

Yours faithfully,

A Elliott

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From: Wiper, Carl
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

23 March 2010

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Thank you for your request for information received at this office on 19 March 2010. This has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request may take up to 20 working days to be processed.

If an exemption applies to the information that you have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with the provisions of that Act.

If a charge is applicable to your request, we will advise you of this in due course.

Should you have any queries, please contact me.

_________________________________________________
Carl Wiper LLM MCLIP
Corporate Information Manager
Bolton Council, Room 320, Town Hall, Bolton BL1 1RU tel: 01204 331031, mobile: 0778 903 1512
[email address]

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From: Wiper, Carl
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

19 April 2010

I am writing in response to your request for information received at this
office on 19 March 2010.

We have not yet reached a decision regarding this request and under the
provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (section 17), we require
additional time to consider this request fully.

This is because we are considering whether the exemptions in section 43(2)
of the Act relating to commercial interests apply to this information.

We estimate that we will be able to respond to your enquiry by 4 May 2010.

Should you have any queries, please contact me.

Yours sincerely

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From: Wiper, Carl
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

4 May 2010

Dear Mr Elliott

In my email of 19 April I indicated that we required further time in order
to consider whether the qualified exemption in section 43(2) of the
Freedom of Information Act relating to commercial interests applied to
parts of the information you requested.

We have been considering this issue but unfortunately the officer
principally involved in the agency contract is unavailable at this moment
due to other work. This has caused a slight delay but we nevertheless hope
to be able to give you our substantive response by the end of this week.

Thank you for your patience in this matter.

Yours sincerely

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From: Wiper, Carl
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

7 May 2010


Attachment Comensura contract redacted.pdf
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Attachment FOIR1740 response.pdf
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Dear Mr Elliott

I emailed you previously to say that Bolton Council required further time
in order to consider possible qualified exemptions under the Freedom of
Information Act. We have now completed this and we are able to provide the
attached information in response to your request. Thank you for your
patience in this matter.

Yours sincerely

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