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Dear Sheffield City Council,

1. Can you provide an up to date organisation structure for both adult and children care services and including all teams within the services, 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 2018 to Dec 2018 for
the following:

a) Qualified Social Workers
b) Team Managers
c) Assistant/Deputy Team Managers
d) Service Managers

3. Can you provide me with the agreed agency(contingency) budget
for locum social workers and senior management for 2018 within both Adult
Services and Children Services and If possible, projections for 2019 spend?
4. Please also provide a breakdown of the number of expected permanent appointments within both Adult Social Care and Children Social Care for social workers and senior managers for 2018?

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

FOI, Sheffield City Council

Dear C McKay,
 
Thank you for your recent request for information relating to Adult and
Children's Social Care Organisation Structure and Contingency Budget which
we received on 04/10/18.
 
This has been logged as a Freedom of Information Request, and will be
dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act.  The reference number for
your request can be found above.
 
The Freedom of Information Act states that we must respond to you within
20 working days, therefore, you should expect to hear a response from us
by 01/11/18.
 
In the meantime, if you have any queries please, contact us at the email
address below.
 
Thank you.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Sheffield City Council
PO Box 1283
Sheffield, S1 1UJ
Email: [1][Sheffield City Council request email]
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From: C McKay [[2]mailto:[FOI #524208 email]]
Sent: 04 October 2018 12:09
To: FOI
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Adult and Children's Social Care
Organisation Structure and Contingency Budget
 
Dear Sheffield City Council,
 
1. Can you provide an up to date organisation structure for both adult and
children care services and including all teams within the services,
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 2018 to Dec 2018 for
the following:
 
a) Qualified Social Workers
b) Team Managers
c) Assistant/Deputy Team Managers
d) Service Managers
 
3. Can you provide me with the agreed agency(contingency) budget for locum
social workers and senior management for 2018 within both Adult Services
and Children Services and If possible, projections for 2019 spend?
4. Please also provide a breakdown of the number of expected permanent
appointments within both Adult Social Care and Children Social Care for
social workers and senior managers for 2018?
 
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
 
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FOI, Sheffield City Council

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Dear C McKay
 
Re: Freedom of Information Request – Reference FOI 1142
 
Thank you for your request for information regarding Adult and Children's
Social Care Organisation Structure and Contingency Budget.
 
Initially please accept our apologies for the delay in response to your
FOI, this case has taken more time than expected to locate the requested
information.
 
Please find below/ attached, Sheffield City Council’s response to your
request:
 

Text of collated FOI response (or attached):
1. Can you provide an up to date organisation structure for both adult and children care
services and including all teams within the services, operational and senior managers names
where possible?
Attached are interactive PDF charts for Adult Services and Children & Families Service Areas.
Director names can be found on the following page on the Council’s website.
[1]http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/content/shef....
As this information is accessible by other means it is exempt from disclosure under Section
21(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
 
Please note that the staff noted within this response do not wish to receive unsolicited
marketing. Please don’t email or ring them with offers in line with the Data Protection Act
2018 and The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR).
 
For information: Sheffield City Council’s Agency Contract is let to Reed on a Master Vendor
basis. All agency recruitment will be facilitated through this contract.
 
2. Could you please send me a breakdown of your agency spend and also off contract agency
spend (non-tender agreement) from Jan 2018 to Dec 2018 for the following:
 
a) Qualified Social Workers
b) Team Managers
c) Assistant/Deputy Team Managers
d) Service Managers
 
Please see the below table:
 

Month Job Title Total Invoice
Jan-Sep 18 Adults Care Manager £ 101,256.57
Jan-Sep 18 Adults Social Worker Level 1 £ 220,471.59
Jan-Sep 18 Adults Social Worker Level 2 £ 195,040.93
Jan-Sep 18 Children's Independent Reviewing Officer £ 15,045.60
Jan-Sep 18 Children’s Service Manager £ 149,124.81
Jan-Sep 18 Children’s Social Worker Level 1 £ 72,756.32
Jan-Sep 18 Children’s Social Worker Level 2 £ 1,547,743.53
Jan-Sep 18 Children’s Team Manager £ 611,559.96
Jan-Sep 18 Head of Service care and Support £ 18,900.00
Jan-Sep 18 Occupational Therapist £ 13,048.46
Jan-Sep 18 Advanced Social Work Practitioner £ 15,386.43
Jan-Sep 18 Sen Service Manager £ 4,968.00
Total Spend All Areas £ 2,965,302.20

 
 
3. Can you provide me with the agreed agency(contingency) budget for locum social workers and
senior management for 2018 within both Adult Services and Children Services and If possible,
projections for 2019 spend?
 
We are currently in the Business Planning process to set the budget for next year, we
therefore cannot provide this information.  For the current year we do not have a specific
budget assigned for agency spend.  Agency workers are used as and when required and are not a
planned part of our workforce.
 
4. Please also provide a breakdown of the number of expected permanent appointments within
both Adult Social Care and Children Social Care for social workers and senior managers for
2018?
 
We are unable to provide details as we do not forecast for staff in this manner; positions are
filled when vacancies occur of when a new role is created. If you wish to access the number or
title of roles to have been in recruited since January 2018 we should be able to provide
relevant details.
 
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?
 
It is not clear in reference to this element of your request what specific information you are
hoping to obtain. We appreciate this may be related to service reviews on the specific use of
temporary staff, but there are currently no specific service reviews ongoing in this regard.
If you are actually interested in wider review then you would need to qualify in a new request
the specific form of review you are interested in.
 

 
 
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Kind Regards,
 
Sheffield City Council
PO Box 1283
Sheffield, S1 1UJ
Email: [4][Sheffield City Council request email]
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