Reference: FOI-491315979
Date of request: 27/02/2023
Title of request: Early Years Team Information

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Reference: FOI-491315979
Date of request: 27/02/2023
Title of request: Early Years Team Information
Information request:

Dear Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council,

1)      Could you please provide the number of full-time equivalence (FTE)
staff within your Early Years team for the financial year 2022/23? (Please
include any vacancies in this number)

2)      Could you please provide the budget for your Early Years Team for
the financial year 2022/23 including any vacancy cost savings.

Dear Nigel Parks,

Re: your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

I write further to your request, which was received on 27 February 2023,
for information relating to Early Years. 

1)   Could you please provide the number of full-time equivalence (FTE)
staff within your Early Years team for the financial year 2022/23? (Please
include any vacancies in this number)

          - 18 FTE, including 1 vacancy

2)       Could you please provide the budget for your Early Years Team for
the financial year 2022/23 including any vacancy cost savings.

          - Annual staffing budget £991,800.00 (including £69,099 savings)

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