Salary schemes for employees

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Dear Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request information on the services the organisation has available with regards to salary loans, salary advances and salary sacrifice schemes for their employees.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request

Salary Loans

1. Does your organisation offer salary loans?
a. If so, please state the name of your provider?
b. When did the trust go live with this service?
c. When does the contract end with your supplier?
d. What is the annual cost to the organisation in 17/18?

2. Which staffing groups access salary loans i.e. nurses, medics, corporate staff etc?
3. How many employees have signed up to this service? What is the employee split by staffing group? ie. nurses, medics, corporate staff etc.

4. Does your trust offer financial wellbeing advice?
a. If so, please state the name of your provider?
b. What is the contract start and end dates?
c. What is the annual cost to the organisation in 17/18?

Salary Advances

1. Does your organisation offer faster salary payments? i.e. access to salary advances
a. If so, please state the name of your provider?
b. When did the trust go live with this service?
c. When does the contract end with your supplier?
d. What is the annual cost to the organisation in 17/18?

2. What payment period is offered? ie. daily advances, weekly advances?
3. Which staffing groups access the salary advances?
4. On average, how many workers access this facility per week and per month?
5. What is the cost to the workers to receive salary advancements?

Salary Sacrifice

6. Does your organisation offer salary sacrifice schemes?
a. If so, please state the name of your provider?
b. When did the trust go live with this service?
c. When does the contract end with your supplier?
d. What is the annual cost to the organisation in 17/18?
7. What type of schemes does the organisation offer? ie. car parking, childcare vouchers, technology etc?
8. Has the organisation seen an improvement in staff retention or engagement because of the utilisation salary sacrifice schemes?
a. If yes, please provide further detail

Yours faithfully,

Sam Lawrence

Foi.requests (SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dear Sam

Thank you for your request for information.

Your request was received on the 15/10/2018 and under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act; you will receive a response by the 12/11/2018.

If you have any queries in the interim, please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the reference number at the top of this email.

Regards

Lindsay Lunn
Information Governance Supervisor
Access to Health Records
[email address]
Tel : 01623 672231

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TAYLOR, Winston (SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST), Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Good Afternoon Sam,

Please find the response to your freedom of information request attached to this email.

Kind Regards

Winston Taylor
Deputy Information Security & Governance Officer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Telephone 01623 622515 extension 85-41442
Direct Line 01623 435442
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