Childrens Services Agency Social Workers
Dear Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead,
Please could you provide me with answers to the following questions?
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for Children’s Social Care?
2. Please provide confirmation of any contracts you may have with ‘Managed Service Providers’ e.g. Comensura or Matrix. This is in relation to the provision of social workers, senior practitioners, assistant team managers, team managers and service managers within Children’s Services (referred to from now on as "qualified social work professionals"?
nb Comensura or Matrix provide neutral vendor frameworks to manage all recruitment agencies on behalf of Public Authorities like yourselves.
3. In the event that you have a ‘Managed Service Provider’ and they have been unable to supply a qualified social worker do you deal directly with other recruitment agencies who can fill your vacancies on an off framework basis?
4. If you do not have a Managed Service Provider in place, please provide details of contracts you may have with individual recruitment agencies or other providers for the provision of qualified social work professionals?
5. Please provide the TOTAL number of qualified social workers currently working on a recruitment agency basis within Children’s Services.
6. Please provide the NUMBER and GRADE of qualified social work professionals working on an agency basis by SUPPLIER.
7. Please provide the NUMBER and GRADE of qualified social work professionals working on an agency basis by DEPARTMENT.
8. Please provide the pay and agency charge rate of each qualified social work professional currently working on an agency basis.
9. What is the total fiscal SPEND on agency qualified social work professionals within Children’s Services in the last 12 months 2013 – 2014
10. What is the total fiscal BUDGET for agency qualified social work professionals within Children’s Services in the last 12 months 2013 - 2014
11. What is the fiscal budget for qualified social work professionals specifically for Children’s Services recruitment through agencies for 2014 -2015
Yours faithfully,
L Dawson
Dear Mr Dawson
I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your information request - it has been allocated reference FOI66058.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides 20 working days to process requests - this period expires on 21/3/2014.
Regards
Martin Tubbs
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead
Dear L Dawson
I am writing in response to your Information request:
FOI66058
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for Children’s Social Care?
Response: Head of Early Help & Safeguarding
2. Please provide confirmation of any contracts you may have with ‘Managed
Service Providers’ e.g. Comensura or Matrix. This is in relation to the
provision of social workers, senior practitioners, assistant team
managers, team managers and service managers within Children’s Services
(referred to from now on as "qualified social work professionals"?
Response: Reed – Managed Service Provider
Comensura or Matrix provide neutral vendor frameworks to manage all
recruitment agencies on behalf of Public Authorities like yourselves.
3. In the event that you have a ‘Managed Service Provider’ and they have
been unable to supply a qualified social worker do you deal directly with
other recruitment agencies who can fill your vacancies on an off framework
basis?
Response: Yes
4. If you do not have a Managed Service Provider in place, please provide
details of contracts you may have with individual recruitment agencies or
other providers for the provision of qualified social work professionals?
Response: N/A
5. Please provide the TOTAL number of qualified social workers currently
working on a recruitment agency basis within Children’s Services.
Response: 19 (this figure was taken from January 2014 actual data and is
a downward trend as we replace agency staff with permanent employees)
6. Please provide the NUMBER and GRADE of qualified social work
professionals working on an agency basis by SUPPLIER.
Response:
Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd – 7
Sanctuary Personnel Ltd - 4
Caritas Recruitment Ltd - 3
JCL Locums Ltd - 1
Team24 Ltd - 1
Charles Hunter Associates Ltd - 2
NonStop Recruitment Ltd - 2
7. Please provide the NUMBER and GRADE of qualified social work
professionals working on an agency basis by DEPARTMENT.
Response:
Children in Need – 9 – Social Workers
Children in Care and Leaving Care - 3 – Social Workers
Children and Young People Disability Service – 4 – Social
Workers
Referral & Assessment – 2 – Social Workers
Fostering and Adoption – 1 – Social Worker
Family Centre – 1 – Team Manager
8. Please provide the pay and agency charge rate of each qualified social
work professional currently working on an agency basis.
Response: Hourly rates and charges for Social Workers vary dependant on
experience, as an average we pay agency Social Workers - £25 - £35 per
hour - the charge rates varies
9. What is the total fiscal SPEND on agency qualified social work
professionals within Children’s Services in the last 12 months 2013 – 2014
Response: The financial year 2013-14 has not ended yet. Therefore, we can
only provide the projected Agency cost for the year 2013-14.
The projected social work Agency cost for 2013-14 is £1,576,246.
Please note that the above projected figure includes Agency cost of
Social Workers, Service Managers, Team Managers and Assistant Team
Managers.
10. What is the total fiscal BUDGET for agency qualified social work
professionals within Children’s Services in the last 12 months 2013 – 2014
Response: £197,290
11. What is the fiscal budget for qualified social work professionals
specifically for Children’s Services recruitment through agencies for 2014
-2015
Response: £197,290
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