Workforce Management

The request was refused by Dudley Council.

Dear Dudley 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

Dudley Triggers, Dudley Council

Dear J Taylor,

Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - Information Request DMBCIR:14939
Description : Total expenditure on temporary agency staff

I acknowledge your request for information received on 2017-03-21
13:33:00.

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Information Governance, Dudley Council

J Taylor
 
 
 
11/04/2017
 
Dear J Taylor,
 
Freedom Of Information Act 2000 - Information Request 14939
 
Your request
 
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?
 
Our response
 
I write to inform you that your request for information will not be
further processed.
 
This is because the cost of locating and retrieving all the information
exceeds the “appropriate limit” as stated in the Freedom of Information
(Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004 which is currently set at
£450.  This limit represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18
hours in determining whether the Council holds the information, and
locating, retrieving and extracting the information.  Under section 12 of
the Freedom of Information Act the Council is not obliged to comply with
your request and we will not be processing your request further.
 
If you were to make a new request for a more narrow category of
information, it may be that we could comply with that request within the
appropriate limit, although I cannot guarantee that this will be the case.
 
By way of assistance to you we could provide some information to you in
respect of your questions, 1, 3, 4 and 6 within cost limits.
 
Please contact me if you require further assistance in refining your
request.
 
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Information Commissioner's Office
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Cheshire 
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Yours sincerely,
 
A Winch
Information Governance Officer
 
 
 
 
 
 
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