Childrens Services Social Workers

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Loredana Grigore

Dear Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead,

Please provide the following information in the format that is most readily accessible to you.

1. Broken down by frontline social worker, senior social worker, Team Manager or whatever for the last three years or such lesser period should the data not be available, indicate the number and proportion of such workers who were/are employed directly by the Local Authority and those who are working as agency social workers/interims.

2. In relation to the most recent twelve months for which you have information please confirm the cost to the LA of using agency workers and the difference between the cost and what the LA would be paying if such posts were filled by persons employed directly by the LA.

3. How many persons have been interviewed for front line social worker posts over the last 12 months? How many were offered jobs and how many took them up? How many were recent graduates with less than one year post qualification experience; had one to two years post qualification experience or had two or more years post qualification experience?
Yours faithfully,

Loredana Grigore

foi, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Dear Ms Grigore

I am writing to confirm receipt of your request for information below. It has been assigned the tracking code FOI69165.

The Freedom of Information Act allows for 20 working days to process requests for information. This period expires 29 July 2016.

Regards

David Davies
Assistant Information Management Officer
Corporate and Community Services
Clyde House, Reform Road
Maidenhead
SL6 8BZ
Ext 6029

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foi, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

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For the attention of: Loredana Grigore
 
Dear Ms Grigore
 
I am writing to respond to your request for information. Your questions
and our answers are as follows:
 
1. Broken down by frontline social worker, senior social worker, Team
Manager or whatever for the last three years or such lesser period should
the data not be available, indicate the number and proportion of such
workers who were/are employed directly by the Local Authority and those
who are working as agency social workers/interims.
 
See attached table
 
 
2. In relation to the most recent twelve months for which you have
information please confirm the cost to the LA of using agency workers and
the difference between the cost and what the LA would be paying if such
posts were filled by persons employed directly by the LA.
 
The costs of using agency social workers in Children's for the financial
year 2015/16 was approximately £945,915. 
Costs for the agency Social Workers and Senior Practitioner detailed on
the attachment for April 2016 being permanent would be £725,400 although
this is not an exact comparison as we do not keep running cost detail of
agency.
 
3. How many persons have been interviewed for front line social worker
posts over the last 12 months?- 45
 
How many were offered jobs and how many took them up? - 12  and all
accepted
 
How many were recent graduates with less than one year post qualification
experience - 1 
 
Had one to two years post qualification experience - 1
 
Had two or more years post qualification experience – 10
 
This concludes request FOI69165
 
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