Social Work Department Agency Spend, Hierarchy and Contact Information
Dear City of Edinburgh Council,
1. Please can you provide the recruitment agency spend on Social Workers from April 2023 – present
2. Please can you provide the name, contact and address details for each social work service team and department in broken down by:
a) Adult Services
b) Children and Families Services
c) Criminal Justice
3. Please can you provide the social work managers names, phone numbers and email addresses for the individual teams from question 2.
4. Please can you provide an organisational structure for the management hierarchy.
Yours faithfully,
Leah Rowley
Leah Rowley
Our ref: 47207
Dear Leah Rowley
Acknowledgement of Request
Subject: Children, Education and Justice Service - Social Work
Thank you for your request for information of 21/02/2024 which was received on 21/02/2024.
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1. Please can you provide the recruitment agency spend on Social Workers from April 2023 – present
2. Please can you provide the name, contact and address details for each social work service team and department in broken down by:
a) Adult Services
b) Children and Families Services
c) Criminal Justice
3. Please can you provide the social work managers names, phone numbers and email addresses for the individual teams from question 2.
4. Please can you provide an organisational structure for the management hierarchy.
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Leah Rowley
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Our ref: 47207
Dear Leah Rowley
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Release of Information
Subject: Children, Education and Justice Service - Social Work
Thank you for your request for information of 21/02/2024 where you asked a
number of questions regarding the above. Your request has been processed
and considered under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and
the information is provided below. Please accept my apologies for the
delay in responding. I shall address each of your questions in turn.
You asked the following:
Q1. Please can you provide the recruitment agency spend on Social Workers
from April 2023 – present.
A1. From 1 April 2023 to 31 January 2024, from the main Pertemps contract
- £1.7m
Also:
Justice Services - £51k
Children’s Services - Spend to date, 2023/24, at end of Feb 2024 - £945k
Q2. Please can you provide the name, contact and address details for each
social work service team and department in broken down by:
a) Adult Services
b) Children and Families Services
c) Criminal Justice
A2a. Please refer to the following attached document:
47207 Edinburgh Health & Social Care Structure and Contacts
A2b. Children’s Social Work Practice Teams, Young People’s Service,
Children with Disabilities, Family-Based Care, Through Care after Care,
Child Protection Team, Social Care Direct.
Contact details are provided in A3 below.
A2c. Justice Practice Teams, Unpaid Work, Willow Women’s, Justice Service
Prison-Based Social Work (HMP Edinburgh), Court Social Work (Edinburgh
Sheriff Court) and Justice Domestic Abuse Services, Crossroads, Drug
Treatment and Testing Order, Crane, Community Intervention Service for
Sexual Offending and Sexual and Violent Offending Liaison Officers.
Contact details are provided in A3 below.
Q3. Please can you provide the social work managers names, phone numbers
and email addresses for the individual teams from question 2.
A3. In relation to Justice Services and Children’s Services:
Janet Blair, Practice Team Manager – [2][email address]
Anne McTiernan, Practice Team Manager – [3][email address]
Dan Smith, Practice Team Manager – [4][email address]
Jacqui Bogan, Practice Team Manager – [5][email address]
Neil Bruce, Family Based Care Team Manager –
[6][email address]
Mark Crawford, Through Care after Care Team Manager –
[7][email address]
Kath Cole, Young People’s Service Team Manager –
[8][email address]
Michelle Kirkpatrick, Disabilities Team Manager –
[9][email address]
Colette Wormleighton, Justice Sector Manager –
[10][email address]
Adele Ferguson, Justice Sector Manager –
[11][email address]
Victoria Kerr, Justice Sector Manager – [12][email address]
We are unable to provide address for these teams as the services are
provided across various locations in the City.
In relation to the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership, the
requested information and accompanying notes are included in the following
attached document:
47207 Edinburgh Health & Social Care Structure and Contacts
Q4. Please can you provide an organisational structure for the management
hierarchy.
A4. The requested information and accompanying notes are included in the
following attached documents:
47207 Edinburgh Health & Social Care Structure and Contacts
47207 Senior Management Structure_Justice Services and Children's Services
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