Social Care Workers
Dear Council,
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1.
a)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
b)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/19 to 31/3/20? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/19 to 31/3/20? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
c)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/20 to 31/3/21? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/20 to 31/3/21? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
d)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/21 to 31/3/22? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/21 to 31/3/22? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
e)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/22 to 31/3/23? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii)How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/22 to 31/3/23?? Broken down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
2. What was the total spend by your organisation on temporary/ locum qualified (agency) social workers during the financial years 1/4/19 to 31/3/23? Broken down by financial year, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
3. How many vacant positions were filled through locum temporary/ locum qualified (agency) social workers during the financial years 1/4/18 to 31/3/23? Broken down by financial year. Broken down by financial year, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
If it is not possible to fulfil this request for any reason, please provide advice and assistance as to how I can refine my request. If you can identify any other ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
Please provide the most up-to-date information as of the date this request is fulfilled in electronic (soft copy) form via email to me at [email address]
Yours Faithfully,
Laura Hughes
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Request for Information – LBR-FOI-03874 – Social Workers
Thank you for your request for information received on 15 January 2024.
We aim to respond to you within 20 working days.
Please note:
The information you have requested about Children's Services is not held
by London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. You may wish to submit these
parts of your request to Achieving for Children (AfC) who provide
Children’s Services on behalf of the Council.
AfC can be contacted directly with FOI requests via the following link:
www.achievingforchildren.org.uk/pages/co...
Regards
FOI and DPA Officer
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Request for Information - LBR-FOI-03874 - Social Workers
I refer to your request for information received on 15 January 2024.
Apologies for the delay in our response. Please see the information below
in response to your request: -
Our Response:
The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth Council entered
into a shared staffing arrangement on 1 October 2016. For further details
about this arrangement please
see: [2]http://www.richmond.gov.uk/wandsworth. Under the shared staffing
arrangement all staff are jointly employed by both Councils. It is not
generally possible within the context of FOI requests relating to staffing
information (numbers) to provide a separate figure/information for each
Council. Therefore, unless indicated otherwise, where a response refers to
information (or numbers) employed by one or other Council the response
provided will in fact relate to the workforce covering both Councils
services.
1.
a)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19? Broken
down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at
the Council during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19? Broken down,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
b)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/19 to 31/3/20? Broken
down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at
the Council during the financial year 1/4/19 to 31/3/20? Broken down,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
c)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/20 to 31/3/21? Broken
down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at
the Council during the financial year 1/4/20 to 31/3/21? Broken down,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
d)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/21 to 31/3/22? Broken
down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii) How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at
the Council during the financial year 1/4/21 to 31/3/22? Broken down,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
e)
i) How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council during the financial year 1/4/22 to 31/3/23? Broken
down, specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
ii)How many qualified social workers were working on a permanent basis at
the Council during the financial year 1/4/22 to 31/3/23?? Broken down,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services
Adults’ Social Services
Please note that Achieving for Children (AfC) provide Children’s Services
on behalf of the Council. Therefore the Council doesn’t hold information
about Children's Services and you may wish to refer these parts of your
request directly to AfC.
AfC can be contacted directly with FOI requests via the following link:
www.achievingforchildren.org.uk/pages/co...
Q1. Please see the table below
ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES Headcount
Position Jan March March March March March March
2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018
Permanent/Fixed term SW * 133 117 112 114 99 91 106
Agency SW 70 76 80 104 90 97 94
*Includes positions such as: Social
Worker, Senior Social Worker,
Principal SW
2. What was the total spend by your organisation on temporary/ locum
qualified (agency) social workers during the financial years 1/4/19 to
31/3/23? Broken down by financial year, specifically:
Children’s Social Services - This information is not held. Please
contact AfC, as above.
Adults’ Social Services - Please see table below:
Total Expenditure on Agency
Social Workers
£
2018-19 £2,422,206.00
2019-20 £2,445,308.00
2020-21 £2,560,847.00
2021-22 £2,361,620.00
2022-23 £2,666,273.00
3. How many vacant positions were filled through locum temporary/ locum
qualified (agency) social workers during the financial years 1/4/18 to
31/3/23? Broken down by financial year. Broken down by financial year,
specifically:
Children’s Social Services - as above, this information is not held. You
may wish to contact AfC.
Adults’ Social Services - We are unable to provide this information as
agency workers information is not held on the HR Information System.
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Regards,
FOI and DPA Officer
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3. https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
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