School Temporay staff spend

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Amanda Hargreaves

Dear Education Leeds Limited,
I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in
Leeds LEA to third parties in relation to temporary
staffing cover. My hope is to receive an electronic breakdown of
amounts paid through the department's purchase ledger by school.

Notes:
1. I would like the information in electronic format. This should
avoid any printing cost issues.
2. In order to avoid your having to collate information from
peripheral systems, I am willing to accept information only from
your main system (I would like you to advise which system this is).
By main system I mean the system that handles the largest part of
the department's expenditure. If supplier payments are made through
separate systems, then I would like you to choose the main system
for each.
3. The information I require for each school is: School Name;
Supplier name and total amount paid.
4. I would like the information to cover the year 2010/11.

Yours faithfully,

Amanda Hargreaves

Children's FOI,

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Dear Ms Hargreaves

I refer to the above and your email dated 30 April. I have contacted the
relevant services and now provide the following response.

Please find attached a spreadsheet which confirms the amount paid for
temporary staffing cover by Leeds schools for 2010/11. This includes the
name of the school, the name of the company and the amounts paid. Please
note where we have paid a person instead of a company the description
states `individual'. This data has been extracted from a system called FMS
Leeds.

Temporary staff cover represents only a very small fraction of the overall
staffing costs for Leeds schools. Where costs are high, this may be due to
additional difficulties around provision for children with complex needs
(such as lower adult to child ratios, preventing the spread of infection
with illnesses, and requirements around pregnant members of staff) and the
difficulties of recruiting to posts with a particular specialism or
part-way through an academic year.

I hope this information is useful to you, however if you are dissatisfied
with this response then you have a right to appeal to an independent
officer within Children's Services. On appeal, your request will be
re-examined and an assessment made as to whether the requirements of the
Act have been adhered to. Should you wish to follow this course of action
then please address your concerns in writing to Moin Patel, Knowledge and
Technology Team, 10th Floor East, Merrion House, Leeds, LS2 8DT or by
email at [email address].

You also have a right under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act
to ask the Information Commissioner to take a decision as to whether we
have met with our obligations under the Act. The Commissioner has made it
clear however that he expects all applicants to exhaust internal appeals
procedures prior to making such an application. Should you wish to contact
the Commissioner's Office then you can write to the following address:

Office of the Information Commissioner,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire,

SK9 5AF.

You may also contact the Commissioner via his website at [1]www.ico.gov.uk

I trust that this is self explanatory although if you have any queries
then please don't hesitate to contact me on Leeds (0113) 3950782 or Jane
Sheehan on Leeds 2243615, or by return email.

Kind Regards

Nicola Palmer

Information Policy Access Officer

Children's Services

Tel: (0113) 3950782 (ext 50782)

Fax: (0113) 2475354 (ext 75354)

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