Sickness among council staff

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Dear Newport City Council,

I want to know:

How many working days have been lost due to illness at your council in the last financial year? Please break down by department and reason, if possible.

Newport City Council

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your request for information about :

Sickness among council staff

Received on 22/11/2023

This request has been formally logged in our FOI management system and has been assigned the reference REQ12011.
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NCC - Information Management, Newport City Council

Dear Craig Dixhuit,

 

Thank you for your recent request for information which I have enclosed
below for ease of reference. Your request has been treated in accordance
with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and/or the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004.

 

Your Request : REQ12011

 

I can confirm that we hold information that falls within the scope of your
request. The answers to your questions have been provided in red text
below.

 

How many working days have been lost due to illness at your council in the
last financial year? Please break down by department and reason, if
possible.

 

Service Area Cardio-vascular Covid / Emotional Gastro-Intestinal Gynaecological Minor Musculoskeletal Other Grand
/ Respiratory Covid Illness / Urinary Ailment Serious Total
Related Illness /
Condition
Adult &
Community
Services 603.33 703.31 1,711.95 363.44 86.43 732.82 1,444.48 299.65 5,945.41
Children and
Young People
Services 262.09 338.53 1,964.64 369.77 332.09 393.26 1,078.39 366.56 5,105.33
Education 6.50 180.09 323.35 152.87 14.94 220.99 164.22 62.75 1,125.71
Environment
and Public
Protection 209.08 502.31 1,532.33 538.67 29.00 602.28 1,442.03 483.10 5,338.80
Finance 63.00 46.80 269.05 76.91 13.46 96.51 51.50 33.00 650.23
Housing and
Communities 95.30 138.42 228.65 105.42 57.32 86.99 58.06 25.97 796.13
Infrastructure 156.07 254.26 1,105.85 222.79 23.89 336.30 422.78 204.94 2,726.88
Law &
Regulation 25.04 74.38 141.26 31.29 2.00 28.02 34.05 32.42 368.46
People, Policy
and
Transformation 20.50 170.55 230.73 58.70 3.00 189.42 70.62 3.00 746.52
Prevention and
Inclusion 109.95 328.19 975.16 234.95 181.14 336.94 383.95 114.50 2,664.78
Regeneration
and Economic
Development 33.10 166.08 489.74 174.69 53.41 194.76 137.96 54.94 1,304.68
*Regeneration
Investment &
Housing 34.15 213.48 457.87 55.40 2.81 71.79 144.03 79.85 1,059.38
Schools 2,414.60 4,357.96 8,418.04 2,757.56 1,120.51 4,249.79 3,735.49 1,356.30 28,410.25
Grand Total 4,032.71 7,474.36 17,848.62 5,142.46 1,920.00 7,539.87 9,167.56 3,116.98 56,242.56

 

* This breakdown includes the old management structure of the Council. 
The RIH service has merged into other services during the transition to
the new structure.

 

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Jodi

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iaith. Byddwn yn cyfathrebu â chi yn ôl eich dewis. Ni fydd gohebu yn
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unig a gall fod yn gyfrinachol, yn destun ragorfraint gyfreithiol neu
broffesiynol, neu fel arall wedi’i diogelu rhag cael ei rhyddhau. Os nad
chi yw derbynnydd bwriadedig y neges hon, a fyddech cystal â rhoi gwybod
i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a pheidio â datgelu, dosbarthu neu gopïo’r e-bost i
unrhyw barti arall. Mae’r e-bost hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau atodedig yn eiddo
i Gyngor Dinas Casnewydd.

Pan fyddwch yn anfon e-bost at Gyngor Dinas Casnewydd, rydych yn cydsynio
i’r Cyngor fonitro a darllen unrhyw e-byst o’r fath at ddibenion
cydymffurfio â diogelwch ac â deddfwriaeth. I weld yr ymwadiad llawn ewch
i http://www.newport.gov.uk/ymwadiad

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