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Dear Sport England,

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

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

And who is responsible for managing them?

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

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.

Yours faithfully,

Alice Jenks

FOI, Sport England

 

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Dear Ms Jenks,

 

Thank you for your recent email in which you request confirmation of the
frameworks that Sport England works with and the list of agencies that
have been supplied to the company. Your email was received on 20 June 2023
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Dear Ms Jenks,

 

I am writing further to your request below for information
regarding confirmation of the frameworks that Sport England works with and
the list of agencies that have been supplied to the company. We have
considered your request and I am writing to provide you with the following
information.

 

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

•        Sport England works under Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term
Staff CCS Framework RM6160. 

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

Adecco UK Limited
Badenoch and Clark Limited
Brook Street
Gatenby Sanderson Limited
IT Works Health Ltd
Law Absolute
MLC Partners
Networkers
Office Angels UK (Part of Adecco Group)
Page Personnel
Pertemps
Real Staffing Computer Futures
Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited
Roberston Bell Ltd
Spring Technology
Tile Hill Interim and Executive
Venn Group Limited

 

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 .

Rainmaker People
Language Matters

 

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

Job Title Department Agency used Spend (Invoice
Data)
Place : Planning Pertemps £16,016.8
Strategy, Insight & Performance Office Angels UK £11,582.4
- HR
Place : Planning Office Angels UK £32,342.4
Finance & Corporate Services - Brook Street £25,220.8
Finance
CEO's Office Office Angels UK £16,160.0
Place : Planning Pertemps £7,312.0
Place : Planning Pertemps £3,940.8

 

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Job Title Department Agency used Spend 2022 (Invoice
Data)
Finance & Corporate MLC Partners £63,091.2
Services - Finance
Finance & Corporate Gatenby Sanderson £227,597.6
Services - Finance Limited
Finance & Corporate Real Staffing £77,055.2
Services - Finance Computer Futures
Finance & Corporate Tile Hill Interim £51,494.4
Services - Finance and Executive

 

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

Job Title Department Agency used Spend 2022 (Invoice
Data)
Finance & Corporate Networkers £91,584.0
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Networkers £49,536.0
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate IT Works Health Ltd £45,840.0
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Spring Technology £5,299.2
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Spring Technology £23,466.4
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Networkers £86,400.0
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Spring Technology £59,904.0
Services - IT
Finance & Corporate Spring Technology £29,920.0
Services - IT

 

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

•   This would be on a case-by-case basis dependent on the needs of the
role.

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

•   This would be on a case-by-case basis dependent on the needs of the
role.

Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

•   This would be on a case-by-case basis dependent on the needs of the
role.

 

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

Lot 1 – administration and secretarial roles

Our rates are agreed on a day rate basis, not hourly. In 2022, this was £.

Lot 2 – finance, accounts and audit roles

Our rates are agreed on a day rate basis, not hourly. In 2022, this was £.
Lot 3 – IT technicians, analysts and technical engineer specialists

Our rates are agreed on a day rate basis, not hourly. In 2022, this was £.

 

We consider the job titles and highest agency hourly charge rate to be
exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) Freedom of Information Act
2000. The salary rates of our staff constitutes personal data as defined
by the General Data Protection Regulation. Our staff have a reasonable
expectation of privacy and would not expect us to make information about
their working lives public. As such, disclosure of this information would
not be fair and in direct contravention of the first data protection
principle

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

And who is responsible for managing them?

 

•   A RM6160 Call-Off contract is in place for every agency worker.
Hiring managers are responsible for the management of those Call-Off
contracts.

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

We consider this information to be exempt from disclosure under section
40(2) Freedom of Information Act 2000. The names of our non-senior,
non-public facing staff constitutes personal data as defined by the
General Data Protection Regulation. Our non-senior staff have a reasonable
expectation of privacy and would not expect us to make information about
their working lives public. As such, disclosure of this information would
not be fair and in direct contravention of the first data protection
principle. 

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.

We do not use RM6277 and do not intend to. The decision makers for
existing RM6160 workers will differ based on the role to be recruited and
the delegated authority for that role.  We use the RM6160 CCS Award
Support Tool to support decision making. We consider this information to
be exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) Freedom of Information Act
2000. The names of our non-senior, non-public facing staff constitutes
personal data as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation. Our
non-senior staff have a reasonable expectation of privacy and would not
expect us to make information about their working lives public. As such,
disclosure of this information would not be fair and in direct
contravention of the first data protection principle. 

  

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