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Use of Agency Social professionals

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

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

From: A Elliott

19 March 2010

Dear Gateshead Borough Council,

Please provide me with:

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

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

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

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

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

7. the pay and agency charge rate of each qualified social work
professional currently working on an agency basis at Gateshead
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

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From: A Elliott

19 March 2010

Dear Gateshead 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: informationrights
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

23 March 2010

23.03.10

Dear Sir/Madam

Subject: Freedom of Information - Legal and Corporate Services -
Litigation

I refer to the request, which you have made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 for records held by this department/office.

Acknowledgement

Your request dated 19 March 2010 was received by this department on 19
March 2010. Should you have any questions or concerns about your request
please telephone 0191 433 2106.

A final decision on your request would normally be sent to you within 20
working days of receipt of your request. This means that you can expect
to receive your decision by 20 April 2010.

There are some limited situations under the Freedom of Information Act,
which could mean that the period for a final decision may be longer than
the normal 20 working days. If this occurs in your request, we will
promptly advise you in writing.

Should our final decision not reach you on time, please feel free to
call the contact officer named above to discuss any problems that may
have arisen.

Non reply by us deemed to be a refusal

If you have not heard from us once the allotted time has expired, you
are automatically entitled to appeal to this department for a review of
the matter. This review is a full and new examination of the matter ,
and is carried out by a more senior member of staff of this
department/office.

In the event that you need to make such an appeal, you can do so by
writing to Information Rights Officer at the address given below. You
should state that you are appealing because an initial decision was not
sent to you within the time permitted. In that event, you would normally
have 40 days (after the original decision should have been sent to you)
in which time to make the appeal.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Officer

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