Mental Health Agency Staff

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Dear Portsmouth City Council,

I would like to request that you provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

Please can you confirm what your total spend on temporary Mental Health staff was during the financial year 2014-15 for the below specialisms?
Can you please break this financial information down by:
• Mental Health Nurse
• Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Psychologists
• Psychological wellbeing practitioner
• Psychotherapist
• Counsellor
• High Intensity Therapist

To provide additional clarity on my request, ‘temporary Mental Health staff’ is to mean all persons who are mental health staff and are not on permanent contracts of employment with the Council, but are supplied via employment agencies.

Yours faithfully,

Helen Jones

FoI (ITS), Portsmouth City Council

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Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone:    023 9268 8482

 

                                                                                   

Reference: FOI20150733

 

Dear Helen Jones

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 13/07/2015.

 

Your request is being considered and, subject to the points made below,
you will receive the information requested as promptly as possible within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

 

If we need to obtain more information from you in order to understand what
information you require, we will contact you. If this is the case, the 20
day time limit will not commence until your request has been clarified.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of certain
information.  The City Council will consider whether any of these
exemptions apply and, where required by the Act, whether it is in the
public interest to release the information.  If we have to make a public
interest test, the 20 day time limit might be extended. We will inform you
if the time scale has to be extended and if any information is withheld
and of your rights of appeal.

 

The City Council would like to make you aware that disclosure of
information obtained through FOIA is a disclosure into the public domain.

 

The City Council’s standard approach is to provide the information in the
form in which we hold it.  If you require alternative formats, e.g. audio,
large print, etc. or a different language, please let me know and we will
provide it if reasonably practicable to do so. If your request is a
question and we do not hold the answer in recorded form we will try and
provide an answer where we are able unless it requires the creation of new
information.

There may be a fee payable for this information request and we will send
you a Fees Notice if this is the case. Any fee must be paid before the
request is provided.  The time between the issue of the Fees Notice and
receipt of payment is excluded from the calculation of the 20 working day
time limit.

 

Any personal information you provide in relation to this request will only
be used for the purposes of processing your request for information.

 

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Magri

Corporate Information Governance Officer.

                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

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FoI (ITS), Portsmouth City Council

 

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Customer, Community and Democratic Services
Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL
Telephone: 023 9268 8482
Fax: 023 9284 1327

Reference: FOI/2015/733

Dear Ms Helen Jones

Further to our acknowledgement of your request, we need some clarification
from you so that we can provide you with an appropriate response.

Please can you advise whether you are asking this question of the Public
Health Authority, or the Council, or both?

If you wish to telephone the office (on the number above) to talk through
this clarification, I would be more than happy to discuss the matter with
you.

The normal time limit for responding to a request for information, under
the Freedom of Information Act is 20 working days from the day after it is
received. However, where an authority reasonably requires further
information or clarification before it is able to respond to a request,
section 10(6)(b) of the FOIA specifies that the 20-day period for
compliance with the request begins when the authority receives the
information it requires to identify and locate the information requested.

The City Council would like to make you aware that if we do not receive
clarification within 30 days your request for information will be closed.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of some or
all of the information that you have requested. The City Council will
consider whether any of these exemptions apply and, where required by the
Act, whether it is in the public interest to release the information. If
we have to make a public interest test, the 20 working day time limit
might be extended. You will be informed if any information is withheld and
of your rights of appeal.

There may be a fee payable for this information and you will be informed
if this is the case. Any fee must be paid before the request is processed
and the information released. The 20 working day time clock will stop
until the fee is paid.

If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [2][email address].

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri
Corporate Information Governance Officers.

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Dear FoI (ITS),

Can you please answer on behalf of the Council only?

Thanks

Yours sincerely,

Helen Jones

FoI (ITS), Portsmouth City Council

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Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone:    023 9268 8482

 

 

Our Ref: FOI20150733

 

21 August 2015

 

Dear Helen Jones

                              

INFORMATION REQUEST – TEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY STAFF

 

Thank you for your request for information received 13 July 2015 which
was considered under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

You asked us:-

 

Please can you confirm what your total spend on temporary Mental Health
staff was during the financial year 2014-15 for the below specialisms?

Can you please break this financial information down by:

•         Mental Health Nurse

•         Learning Disabilities Nurse

•         Psychologists

•         Psychological wellbeing practitioner

•         Psychotherapist

•         Counsellor

•         High Intensity Therapist

 

In accordance with the Act, I confirm Portsmouth City Council does not
hold the information you are seeking. 

 

We are aware that the use of temporary Mental Health staff by Portsmouth
City Council is very rare due to the specialist nature of the work they
do, however, it is not possible to identify the exact expenditure from the
invoices we receive.

 

I am sorry we are unable to assist with your request on this occasion
however, you have the right to appeal against this outcome or to complain
about our treatment of your request.  If you wish to do so, please set out
in writing your grounds of complaint and send to the Corporate Information
Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall
Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482, e-mail 
[2][email address].

 

Should you be dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints decision you
may wish to follow the Portsmouth City Council’s Compliments and
Complaints procedure which can be found on the Portsmouth City Council
website or by contacting the Civic Offices.

 

Once these processes have been exhausted you have a further right of
appeal to the Information Commissioner at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

[3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Helen Magri

Corporate Information Governance Officer

 

Portsmouth City Council

Civic Offices

Guildhall Square

Portsmouth

PO1 2BQ

 

T:  023 9268 8482

E:  [4][email address]

E:  [5][Portsmouth City Council request email]

[6]www.portsmouth.gov.uk

 

 

 

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