Dear Alice Jenks

Request FOI/7669

Further to your request received on 02/06/2023, I confirm that the Council
has now considered your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000. For ease of reference, I will now address each of your questions in
turn. 

 

For the use of agencies, please can you confirm if the Council works
under, Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160
and the new CCS Non-Clinical Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277. 

No

Please can you confirm the list of agencies that have supplied to the
trust under the framework through the dates of January 2022 – December
2022.

N/A as No to above.

For the same 12-month period, please can you provide the list of agencies
that have supplied to you staff outside of the framework CCS Framework
RM6160.

Agency contract is with Adecco.

Please outline your spending per agency, broken down by grade and
speciality of roles or lots department for the above time period.

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

 

Adecco & The Council considers the cost information requested to be
commercially sensitive information and covered by the exemption provided
in Section 43 of Freedom of Information Act.  This exemption applies to
information which if disclosed would, or would be likely to, prejudice the
commercial interests of any person, including the Council.

It is important to remember that when information is released under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, it is considered released to the wider
public. In deciding whether to apply this exemption the Council is
expected to balance the public interest test in withholding the
information against the public interest in disclosing the information.

Although there is always a clear case for transparency of council spend
and in informing the public how the council allocates taxpayer’s
resources, the information is considered, by the Council, to be
commercially sensitive as its disclosure would, or would be likely to,
prejudice the commercial interests the Council, as it is considered that
if the information is disclosed to you it could potentially weaken the
Council ability to obtain value for money in respect of any future
purchases of this type.

 

Please can you confirm on what occasions you would look to go outside of
the framework for roles as below; 

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

Framework not used, as stated above, agency contract is with Adecco so all
temporary roles released to them.

 

Please can you confirm the highest agency hourly charge rate and their
speciality staffing, for; 

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

£34.53

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

£74.03

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialist

£128.32

 

What contractual relationships are in place for supplying Temporary and
Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160 and the new CCS Staffing Framework
Agreement RM6277. 

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

These frameworks aren’t used.

 

And who is responsible for managing them?

Agency contract is managed by Katie Wallace, Head of
Recruitment, [1][email address]

 

Please can you please provide me with the name, contact number & email
address of the person responsible for agreeing on staffing contracts for
your organisation

As above

Please can you provide details of the names of the decision-makers who
ultimately decide which agencies your organisation uses for non-clinical
staff for CCS Staffing Framework Agreement RM6277 and the previous
Temporary and Fixed Term Staff CCS Framework RM6160.

As above

 

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London Borough of Croydon

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Croydon, CR0 1EA

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Information Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

Bernard Wetherill House,

Mint Walk,

Croydon,

CR0 1EA

 

 

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