Workforce Management

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Dear Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,
Under the FOI act please provide the following information,
Workforce Management
1. Please provide the organisation’s total expenditure on temporary agency staff for 2015/16

2. Please state which staffing group has the highest temporary agency spend for 2015/16 (eg. admin & clerical, community services, legal etc.)

3. Does the organisation use any 3rd party services/software to manage agency workers? If so, please provide the following information:
a. Provider Name
b. Description of Services
c. Annual Cost to Organisation in 2015/16 (£)
d. Contract End Date
e. Framework used for procurement

4. Please provide the organisation’s total expenditure on internal bank staff for 2015/16 (£)

5. Does the organisation use any 3rd party services/software to manage bank workers? If so, please provide the following information:
a. Provider Name
b. Description of Services
c. Annual Cost to Organisation in 2015/16 (£)
d. Contract End Date

6. Payroll
a. How does the organisation manage their payroll? (in-house/outsourced)
b. How frequently does the organisation run its payroll? (monthly/weekly)
c. Which staff types does the payroll cover? (substantive/temporary)
d. How many payslips did the organisation process in 2015/16?
e. What is the annual cost of the payroll services provision in 2015/16?
f. If outsourced, which 3rd party do you use?
g. If outsourced, what is the contract end date?

Thank you for your time spent on this request,

Yours faithfully,

J Taylor

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Taylor,

 

 

Thank you for your request for information about Workforce Management,
which was received on 21 March 2017.

 

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council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
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Yours sincerely

 

 

Fakhara Qanwal

 

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Taylor,

 

Freedom of Information Request RFI0348/17

 

Further to your request for information about Workforce Management, I can
tell you the following:

 

1.    Please provide the organisation’s total expenditure on temporary
agency staff for 2015/16

 

£10,988,799

 

2.    Please state which staffing group has the highest temporary agency
spend for 2015/16 (eg. admin & clerical, community services, legal etc.)

 

Childrens Services

 

3.    Does the organisation use any 3rd party services/software to manage
agency workers?  If so, please provide the following information:

 

a.    Provider Name

 

Starting Point Recruitment

 

b.    Description of Services

 

Managed service provision

 

c.    Annual Cost to Organisation in 2015/16 (£)

 

See Q1

 

d.    Contract End Date

 

October 2017-04-18

 

e.    Framework used for procurement

N/A

 

4.    Please provide the organisation’s total expenditure on internal bank
staff for 2015/16 (£)

 

Nil

 

5.    Does the organisation use any 3rd party services/software to manage
bank workers?  If so, please provide the following information:

 

No

 

a.    Provider Name

b.    Description of Services

c.    Annual Cost to Organisation in 2015/16 (£)

d.    Contract End Date

 

6.    Payroll

 

a.    How does the organisation manage their payroll?
(in-house/outsourced)

 

In-house

 

b.    How frequently does the organisation run its payroll?
(monthly/weekly)

 

Monthly

 

c.    Which staff types does the payroll cover? (substantive/temporary)

 

All

 

d.    How many payslips did the organisation process in 2015/16?

 

129174

 

e.    What is the annual cost of the payroll services provision in
2015/16?

 

£364,242

 

f.     If outsourced, which 3rd party do you use?

 

N/A

 

g.    If outsourced, what is the contract end date?

 

N/A

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Laurie Andrews

 

Laurie Andrews

Information Rights Officer

Information Governance Team, Business Change , Change and Governance,
Walsall Council, Darwall Street, Walsall WS1 1TP

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