Amount of money spent on Supply Teaching in 2022-2023

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Dear David Webb,

INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your request for information received on 5th May 2023. We
have considered your request:

Teaching Agencies

Could you please provide comprehensive figures on the annual monetary
spend to teaching agencies, for supply teaching and educational support
staff last year and this year?

Unfortunately, this Authority does not hold information concerning agency
staff directly engaged by schools as individual schools manage their
agency worker requirements. However, we believe information of this nature
may be held by the individual schools, who will also be covered by the
Freedom of Information Act.

Their contact details can be found at -

[1]https://www.caerphilly.gov.uk/Services/S...

Alternatively, we can provide the spend relating to corporate education
support agency staff engaged by the Council for the last two financial
years. Please confirm if you require this information and we will consider
your request and respond to you within the statutory timescale of 20
working days. Please note that the timescale for responding has paused
until we receive clarification from you.

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the handling of your request, please contact [2][Caerphilly County Borough
Council request email].

Yours sincerely

Uned Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth Gorfforaethol | Corporate Information
Governance Unit

Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili | Caerphilly County Borough Council

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Dear David Webb,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for your request for information received on 5th May 2023.
Further to the initial response sent to you we have received the attached
information from the Education department.

Could you please provide comprehensive figures on the annual monetary
spend to teaching agencies, for supply teaching and educational support
staff last year and this year?

Please see attached.

We supply this information based on your original request. If this is not
what you wanted or if you feel we have not fully understood your request,
please do not hesitate to contact me to clarify your exact requirements.

If you have any queries or concerns or are in any way dissatisfied with
the handling of your request, please contact [1][Caerphilly County Borough
Council request email].

Yours sincerely

Uned Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth Gorfforaethol | Corporate Information
Governance Unit

Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili | Caerphilly County Borough Council

Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations
2004

You have the right to appeal against our decision

If you wish to appeal please set out If you are unhappy with that decision
in writing your grounds of appeal you have the right to appeal to:
and send to:
Information Commissioner’s Office –
Corporate Information Governance Wales
Unit 2nd Floor, Churchill House
Caerphilly County Borough Council, Churchill Way
Penallta House Cardiff CF10 2HH
Tredomen Park
Hengoed. CF82 7PG Tel: 0330 414 6421

Appeals will be determined by an Website: [2]www.ico.org.uk
appropriate senior officer.
Email: [3][email address]

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and your response will be kept for 3 years.  Some requests and responses
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Your request including your identity and contact details will be
distributed to relevant service areas and elected members who may either
hold the information you have requested or are involved in the processing
of requests.  Other organisations and individuals who may be affected by
the disclosure of the information you have requested may be consulted
prior to a decision being made on the disclosure.

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Dear David Webb

Thank-you for your email received on 12th June.

To clarify our earlier response, the total figures provided to you on 5th
June relate to Corporate Education support agency staff engaged by the
Council for the last two financial years -

2022/23 - £12,541,909 (full financial year)

2023/24 - £1,571,755 (invoices paid from April 2023 to 05.06.23)

These figures are for all agency staff.  We do not hold the breakdown
between teaching and non-teaching staff.   This level of information would
only be held by the individual schools. 

Please note we do not hold information concerning agency staff directly
engaged by schools as individual schools manage their agency worker
requirements.

Whilst we are unable to directly provide an answer to your question
concerning teaching and educational support staff, we are able to provide
a further breakdown of the above figures by individual school and agency
if required.

Yours sincerely

CORPORATE INFORMATION GOVERNANCE UNIT

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