Who's who in Children's Services

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Dear Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council,

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Offficers).

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and retention.

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise retention?

Yours faithfully,

James Judge

InfoMgr, FinDMT, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Judge
 
Further to your recent Freedom of Information request, please see the
Council’s response to your enquiry below.
 
1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services
Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of
current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would
be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Officers). – Attached
 
 
2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human Resources
Department takes lead responsibility on social worker recruitment and
retention.
 
Deputy Director of Children's Care Services, Deputy Head of Human
Resources and OD
 
3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise
retention?
 
There was a new career development framework put in place in 2015 which
included some changes to pay in children's professional social care
roles.  We are currently reviewing a range of options in relation to
recruitment and retention initiatives.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Lynette Paterson
Senior Information Management Officer
Business Services - Digital
 
Treasury Building
Argyle Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1AH
 
[1]Tel: 0151 691 8201
[2][Wirral Borough Council request email]
 
 
 
 
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Dear InfoMgr, FinDMT,

and who are th post holders for the jobs mentioned in 2?

Yours sincerely,

James Judge

InfoMgr, FinDMT, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

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Dear Mr Judge

 

Thank you for your further correspondence, please see additional
 information confirmed below:

 

 

1. Please provide an organisational chart of your Childrens Services
Department from Director down to Team Managers providing the names of
current postholders as appropriate (Director down to Service Manager would
be excellent including Heads of Service, Principal Officers). – Attached

 

 

2. Please identify who within Children’s Services and your Human
Resources  Department takes lead responsibility on social worker
recruitment and  retention.

 Deputy Director of Children's Care Services, Simone White - Deputy Head
of Human  Resources and OD – Tony Williams

 

 

3. What steps if any have you taken or intend to take to incentivise 
retention?

  There was a new career development framework put in place in 2015 which 
included some changes to pay in children's professional social care 
roles.  We are currently reviewing a range of options in relation to 
recruitment and retention initiatives.

 

We trust this now clarifies your enquiry.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Tracy O'Hare

Information Management Officer

Business Services - Digital

Treasury Building

Cleveland Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1AH

[1]Tel:0151 691 8397

[2][Wirral Borough Council request email]

 

 

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to use it for your own purposes, including any non commercial research you
are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for
example commercial publication, would require our specific permission, may
involve licensing and the application of a charge

 

 

 

 

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