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Dear Wokingham Borough Council,

Dear West Berkshire Council,

1. Can you provide an up to date organisation structure for both adult and children care services and including operational and senior managers names where possible?

2. Could you please send me a breakdown of your agency spend and also off contract agency spend (non-tender agreement) from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017 for the following:

Qualified Social Workers
Social Work Assistants
Team Managers
Assistant/Deputy Team Managers
Service Managers
Senior Management

3. Can you provide me with the expected/agreed agency(contingency) budget for
locum social workers and senior management for 2018 within both Adult
Services and Children Services?

4. Please also provide a breakdown of the number of expected
permanent appointments within both Adult Social care and Children Social
for social workers and senior managers for 2017?

5. Can you confirm if there are any service reviews ongoing or planned and If
so when they will likely be concluded and can you provide published
results of these reviews if applicable?

Yours faithfully,

C McKay

Yours faithfully,

C McKay

informationrequests, Wokingham Borough Council

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Dear C McKay

RE: Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 9549

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Dear FOI Team,

I will await your response

Yours sincerely,

C McKay

informationrequests, Wokingham Borough Council

Thank you for your email.

If you have submitted a Freedom of Information request, please be aware
that we can accept requests via our on-line web-form, which you may find
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Yours sincerely

 

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Dear C MacKay,

I apologise for the delay in responding to your Freedom of Information
request.

We are awaiting a response from one of our Service Area's and this has
been chased again today.

We will respond as soon as we have a response to your request from that
Service Area.

Kind Regards

Pam Chahal
Information Services
Customer Services
Wokingham Borough Council
Shute End, Wokingham
RG40 1BN
 
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Dear C McKay

 

RE: Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 9549

 

Thank you for your recent communication, please find detailed below and
attached the information in response to your request.

 

1. Can you provide an up to date organisation structure for both adult and
children care services and including operational and senior managers names
where possible?

- See attached file - FOI 9549 - People Services Structure.

 

2. Could you please send me a breakdown of your agency spend and also off
contract agency spend (non-tender agreement) from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017 for
the following:

 

a) Social Work Assistants

b) Team Managers

c) Assistant/Deputy Team Managers

d) Service Managers

e) Senior Management

- See attached file - FOI 9549 - Costs.

 

3. Can you provide me with the expected/agreed agency(contingency) budget
for locum social workers and senior management for 2018 within both Adult
Services and Children Services?

- No designated budget allocated. When required the relevant service
presents a business case based on need for consideration and an informed
decision is made on how best to proceed.

 

4. Please also provide a breakdown of the number of expected permanent
appointments within both Adult Social care and Children Social for social
workers and senior managers for 2017?

- See attached file - FOI 9549 - Social Worker Recruitment.

 

5. Can you confirm if there are any service reviews ongoing or planned and
If so when they will likely be concluded and can you provide published
results of these reviews if applicable?

- None planned currently.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Pam Chahal

Information Services

Customer Services

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