Dear Sir or Madam,

Agency worker: Agreements, Contracts, pay scales

Please send me an electronic copy, (see accessibility notes below) via http://www.whatdotheyknow.com, of the following information:

FOI Act: (Freedom of Information Act 2000)

:- Contracts or equivalent information/documents

1.1) Copies of any contracts you have for the provision of temporary worker agency staff, with regards agency/temporary social care/social worker staff/workers. Contracts you may have with individual agency staff recruitment businesses/services, hereafter called 'Vendors'. Or contracts you may have with organisations like, Comensura, Manpower, Reed, hereafter called 'Managed Service Provider' who provide Master/Vendor Neutral framework to managed all vendors on behalf of Public Authorities like yourselves. A sample FOI disclosed Managed Service Provider agreement can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/mastervendorc...

:- Hourly Pay scales/rates with regards agency/temporary social care/social worker staff.

1.2) A list of each Vendor you use and copies of hourly pay-scales/rates you hold for each Vendor. Whether or not you use each Vendor via Managed Service Provider framework. Please ensure any provided pay-scale information provided explains how many years of experience is required to be applicable to any specific hourly rate. Sample FOI disclosed pay scale/rates information can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/agencypayscal...

:- Panel Vendor Agreement or equivalent information/documents

1.3 A copy of any contract/agreement used by yourself or any Managed Service Provider to manage individual Vendors through any Master/Vendor Neutral framework you operate or participate in, this is sometimes called a Panel Vendor Agreement. A sample FOI disclosed Panel Vendor Agreement can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/panelvendorag...

To help clarify these requests 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, you can download:

A sample FOI disclosed Panel Vendor Agreement can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/panelvendorag...

and

Sample FOI disclosed pay scale/rates information can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/agencypayscal...

A sample FOI disclosed Managed Service Provider agreement can be downloaded via:
http://www.filedropper.com/mastervendorc...

Please also indicate whether any of the information requested 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 has ever been disclosed before under the FOI Act.

Acessibility notes: Information accessibility

To be able to use a computer Screen Reader (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader) with any information you provide please provide the information in Microsoft Office Word Document format (.Doc) or equivalents like WordPerfect and Open Office Writer Please state explicitly if this format is not available, if this format is not available please provide it in an accessible Portable Document Format (PDF). Accessibility information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader and with regards PDF's http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessib... - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/so...

Yours faithfully,

Eric Blair

Dear FOIRequests,

I am writing to clarify/amend a part of my information request,Section 1.2, with regards payscale information.

This part of my original request stated:

":- Hourly Pay scales/rates with regards agency/temporary social care/social worker staff.

1.2) A list of each Vendor you use and copies of hourly
pay-scales/rates you hold for each Vendor. Whether or not you use each Vendor via a Managed Service Provider framework. Please ensure any provided pay-scale information provided explains how many years
of experience is required to be applicable to any specific hourly rate."

Please also add after the word 'framework':

If you do you use a Managed Service Provider please also provide a copy of the pay-scales/rates that are used by the Managed Service Provider to manage all these Vendors.

Therefore section 1.2 should now read thus:

1.2)A list of each Vendor you use and copies of hourly
pay-scales/rates you hold for each Vendor. Whether or not you use each Vendor via a Managed Service Provider framework. If you do you use a Managed Service Provider please also provide a copy of the pay-scales/rates that are used by the Managed Service Provider to manage all these Vendors. Please ensure any provided pay-scale information provided explains how many years of experience is required to be applicable to any specific hourly rate.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

Dear Joan Power,

REF: 2009/COR0086 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION - INFORMATION REQUEST

Further to a request to clarify, please narrow my request to temporary agency staff undertaking the following roles:

1) Social Workers

2 Social Work Assistants

in relation to such staff working with Children's Services and or
Adult's Services

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair

Dear Ayton Valerie,

Thank you for send the requested information. However, could it be possible to send each item as a separate document? I find having each document embedded into one document to be quite inaccessible from a Screen Reader point of view.

Extract from my original request.

"Acessibility notes: Information accessibility

To be able to use a computer Screen Reader
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader) with any information you provide please provide the information in Microsoft Office Word Document format (.Doc) or equivalents like WordPerfect and Open Office Writer "

The practice of embedding documents within one main document can also create problems as anti-virus and security protocols can seek to block extraction and reading. Also it is just plain uncommon to provide information in this manner.

Yours sincerely,

Eric Blair