School Supply Spend 2009/2010/2011

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Dear Tower Hamlets Borough Council,

I am interested in the amounts paid by each school in Tower Hamlets Borough Council to third parties in relation to temporary teacher staffing cover. My hope is to receive an electronic breakdown of amounts paid through the department's purchase ledger by school.

Notes:
1. I would like the information in electronic format. This should avoid any printing cost issues.
2. In order to avoid your having to collate information from peripheral systems, I am willing to accept information only from your main system (I would like you to advise which system this is).
By main system I mean the system that handles the largest part of the department's expenditure. If supplier payments are made through separate systems, then I would like you to choose the main system for each.
3. The information I require for each school is: School Name; Supplier name and total amount paid.

4. I would like the information to cover the years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.

Yours faithfully,

Cordelia

Ayesha Begum, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

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Yours faithfully,

Ayesha Begum

Apprentice

Information Governance Team

Legal Services,

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

6th Floor, Mulberry Place,

5 Clove Crescent

London E14 2BG

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Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

Dear Cordelia

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000: IGT_FOI_08_ 5041-Schools Supply Spend
2009-10-11

Your request for information has been considered under the requirements of
the Freedom of Information Act and the information is below.

Further to your request for financial information regarding school
payments for supply teachers and agency staff, the Department for
Education has published "School spending data". This publication is part
of the coalition's transparency agenda.

The Link to School-by-school spend data is available here

[1]http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/admi...

The CFR (Consistent Financial Reporting) framework summarises school level
financial information into headings, this is the main source of
information about how schools have spent their resources.

Please Note: 2010/11 has yet to be finalised and published.

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Samir Kamil

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Children, Schools and Families Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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5 Clove Crescent

London E14 2BG

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Dear Samir Kamil,

Thank you for your email, but I was already aware of the public information. It does not cover the dates I am looking for.

I know that the council hold the data for the years I was looking for, so please kindly respond accurately to my original request for Tower Hamlets schools spending for 2008/2009, 2009/10 and 2010/11.

Yours sincerely,

Cordelia

Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

I am Out of the Office until 13/09/2011.

If your query is urgent please contact my Manager Redouane Serroukh Ext:
6570

If you are responding to a FOI or a Members Enquiry please RESEND your
email to [email address]

Kind Regards
Samir

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Dear Samir Kamil,

It has now been a month since my original request. Please respond promptly with the information I have requested, otherwise I will have no choice to request an internal review.

Yours sincerely,

Cordelia

Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

Dear Cordelia,

 

I am currently looking into this and already in the process of confirming
exactly what data is held by the Local Authority and what data is held and
published directly by the schools.

 

I will be providing a response to your previous email as soon as possible.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Samir Kamil

Information Governance Team

T: 0207 364 2159

E: [1][email address]

 

Children, Schools and Families Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

2nd Floor, Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14

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Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

Dear Cordelia,

 

The funding for maintained schools is delegated via the LA DSG Grant.
Schools are responsible for the delegated funding.

A school reporting is based on the CFR data only, to both the LA and DfE
for compliance.

The CFR (Consistent Financial Reporting) framework summarises school level
financial information into headings. Some of these headings have been
designed for benchmarking and some are included to meet the wider
commitment of CFR - that it would be the main source of information about
how schools have spent their resources.

The request for resources spent on Agency workers is not available via the
Local Authority main Finance system; however the CFR monitoring framework
can provide some information. (Available through Department of Education
website) – Schools retain all information in respect of expenditure in
their Local Systems. (RM, Sims, Phoenix etc) so information on supplier
name/amount is not available via the local authority.

Supply Staff (Net) - CFR

The costs are calculated by adding together Supply teaching staff (E02),
Supply staff insurance (E10), Agency supply teaching staff (E26) and
subtracting Receipts from supply teacher insurance claims (I10).

[1]http://sfb.teachernet.gov.uk

 

The Link to School-by-school spend data is available here:
 [2]http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/admi...

 

 

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Samir Kamil

Information Governance Team

T: 0207 364 2159

E: [3][email address]

 

Children, Schools and Families Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

2nd Floor, Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14 2BG

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Dear Samir Kamil,

Thank you for your response. However, the information I requested
is provided to you under the "Consistent Financial Reporting
Regulations 2003" – please see this link for your reference.
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/admi...

The Regulations require schools to provide the authority with a
financial summary each year of all expenditure. The details I would
like to obtain are those under the CFR headings E02 (Supply
Teachers), E08 (Indirect employee expenses), E10 Supply Teacher
Insurance and E26 (Agency Supply Staff).

I look forward to receiving the information I previously requested.

Yours sincerely,

Cordelia

Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

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Dear Cordelia,

 

Thank you for your last email. As a result of further talks with the
necessary department I have now obtained the attached spreadsheet for your
attention. I hope this answers your request and would like to apologise
for any delay in us providing this to you.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Samir Kamil

Information Governance Team

T: 0207 364 2159

E: [1][email address]

 

Children, Schools and Families Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

2nd Floor, Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14

 

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Dear Samir Kamil,

Thank you for eventually sending me the information I require. It has been received.

Yours sincerely,

Cordelia