Dear Ms Sandiford,

Thank you for your request for information about School Agency Spend,
which was received on 21 January 2019.

In accordance with provisions within Freedom of Information Act 2000, the
council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges. 

If, for any reason, we cannot provide you with the information, we will
tell you why. If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you
again.

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely

Fakhara Qanwal

Dear Ms Sandiford,

Freedom of Information Request RFI0095/19

Further to your request for information about School Agency Spend, I can
tell you the following:

1.    Could you please provide me with the agency spend for all schools,
including primary, secondary, sen, pru's, Academys and nursery's and
alternative education settings for Academic year September 2017- August
2018 and September 2018-present ideally split by the total cost, agency
names and cost per agency

Schools within Walsall, dependent on the type of school, will either
receive their funding directly from central government, or will have a
delegated budget for the school and are therefore responsible for the
employment and payment of agency staff and do not process their invoices
via the local authority systems. As such the information that is being
requested will not actually be held by the council.

In order to obtain accurate information on spend made by schools to
agencies this request should be directed to each school within the Walsall
Area who would be able to provide the information requested.

Details of Schools in the Walsall Area can be found here:

[1]http://cms.walsall.gov.uk/education_dire...

Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004
requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In most cases the
copyright will be owned by Walsall Council. The copyright in respect of
other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as
indicated.

You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a
limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting.
 However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, will
require the permission of the copyright owner.

I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you should set out in writing your grounds for complaint and
send to: Corporate Assurance Manager, Resources & Transformation, Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1TP.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a decision.
Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF. [2]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely

Laurie Andrews

Laurie Andrews

Assurance Officer

Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

3rd Floor (HR Suite), Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DG

Tel: 01922 65 5978

Email: [3][email address]

Web: [4]www.walsall.gov.uk

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http://www.walsall.gov.uk/

Dear Ms Sandiford,

Thank you for your request for information about Invoices, which was
received on 01 May 2019.

In accordance with provisions within Freedom of Information Act 2000, the
council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges. 

If, for any reason, we cannot provide you with the information, we will
tell you why. If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you
again.

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely

Fakhara Qanwal

Dear Ms Sandiford,

Freedom of Information Request RFI0651/19

Further to your request for information about Invoices, I can tell you the
following:

1.    Schools usually pay invoices through the council are you able to
confirm the total spend recorded on your system per school for temporary
staffing without breaking down to supplier?

Schools within Walsall, dependent on the type of school, will either
receive their funding directly from central government, or will have a
delegated budget for the school and are therefore responsible for
determining how to utilise this funding and for retaining a record of
costs / invoices relating to that expenditure. 

As such the information that is being requested is not actually owned by
the council (and while some, but not all, maintained schools do utilise
the councils financial system, and report to the authority at the end of
each financial year, for Section 251 Outturn statements, the details of
spend for their school, this only requires that the school report a total
spend for the financial year, and the information is not broken down into
the detail requested), the data owner would be the individual schools
themselves.

In order to obtain accurate information on spend made by schools on
temporary staffing this request should be directed to each school within
the Walsall Area who own and would be able to provide the information
requested.

Details of Schools in the Walsall Area can be found here:

[1]https://go.walsall.gov.uk/education_dire...

Most of the information that we provide in response to Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004
requests will be subject to copyright protection.  In most cases the
copyright will be owned by Walsall Council. The copyright in respect of
other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as
indicated.

You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a
limitation or exception in copyright law, such as news reporting.
 However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
information in analogue or digital form, including on the internet, will
require the permission of the copyright owner.

I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you should set out in writing your grounds for complaint and
send to: Corporate Assurance Manager, Resources & Transformation, Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1TP.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a decision.
Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF. [2]https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

Yours sincerely

Laurie Andrews

Laurie Andrews

Assurance Officer

Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

3rd Floor (HR Suite), Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DG

Tel: 01922 65 5978

Email: [3][email address]

Web: [4]www.walsall.gov.uk

 Disclaimer: IF THIS EMAIL IS MARKED PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL - PLEASE
RESPECT THAT AND DO NOT FORWARD IT TO ANYONE ELSE WITHOUT THE EXPRESS
PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. The information in this message should be
regarded as confidential and is intended for the addressee only unless
explicitly stated.  If you have received this message in error it must be
deleted and the sender notified.  The views expressed in this message are
personal and not necessarily those of Walsall MBC unless explicitly
stated.  E-mails sent or received from Walsall MBC may be intercepted and
read by the Council.  Interception will only occur to ensure compliance
with Council policies or procedures or regulatory obligations, to prevent
or deter crime, or for the purposes of essential maintenance or support of
the e-mail system. You should also be aware that any email may be subject
of a request under Data Protection, Freedom of Information or
Environmental Information legislation and therefore could be disclosed to
third parties.

E-mail Security: Communication by internet email is not secure as messages
can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore we strongly advise
you not to email any information, which if disclosed to unrelated third
parties would be likely to cause you distress. If you have an enquiry of
this nature please provide a postal address to allow us to communicate
with you in a more secure way. If you want us to respond by email you must
realise that there can be no guarantee of privacy.

References

Visible links
1. https://go.walsall.gov.uk/education_dire...
2. https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
3. mailto:[email address]
4. http://www.walsall.gov.uk/
http://www.walsall.gov.uk/