Use of agency social workers

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Dear Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please can you provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act:

1 - How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency) basis at the Council on Monday 20th May 2019, split by:

a) Children’s Services social work roles

b) Adults’ Services social work roles

2 – What was the total spend by your organisation on temporary (agency) social work professionals during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19?

Yours faithfully,

Dee Green

FOI Unit, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

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RE: - Request For Information

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Dear Dee please find the attached reply to your Freedom of Information
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Information Governance Unit

Customers & ICT

Floor 2, Number One Riverside

Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU

 

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From: Dee Green [FOI #581117 email]

Sent: 06 June 2019 10:44

To: FOI <[Rochdale Council request email]>

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Use of agency social workers

 

Dear Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council,

 

Please can you provide the following information under the Freedom of
Information Act:

 

1 - How many qualified social workers were working on a temporary (agency)
basis at the Council on Monday 20th May 2019, split by:

 

a) Children’s Services social work roles

 

b) Adults’ Services social work roles

 

2 – What was the total spend by your organisation on temporary (agency)
social work professionals during the financial year 1/4/18 to 31/3/19?

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Dee Green

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This email, its contents and any attachments are intended only for the
above named. As the email may contain confidential and/or legally
privileged information, if you are not, or suspect that you are not, the
above named or the person responsible for delivery of the message to the
above named, please delete or destroy the email and any attachments
immediately and inform the sender of the error. Unauthorised access, use,
disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted and may be unlawful.  The
views of the author may not necessarily reflect those of Rochdale Borough
Council.  

Rochdale Borough Council undertakes monitoring of both incoming and
outgoing e-mails. You should therefore be aware that if you send an e-mail
to a person within Rochdale Borough Council it may be subject to any
monitoring deemed necessary by Rochdale Borough Council from time to time.
Rochdale Borough Council cannot guarantee that this message or any
attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and amended.

As a public body, Rochdale Borough Council may be required to disclose
this email (or any response to it) under the Freedom of Information Act
2000, unless the information in it is covered by one of the exemptions
within the Act.

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