Cost of agency children's social workers
Case reference FOI2022/00286
Published 12 May 2022
Request
Please can you tell me how much it cost Herefordshire Council to employ agency social workers in the children's services department, for the years 2017, 2018, 2019,2020 and 2021.
Please can I have this as a total cost for each year, and as a percentage of each year's children's services budget.
Suffolk, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Devon councils have all been able to give me the breakdown by percentage by calendar year, in answer to this question, so I am unsure why it is difficult to do this, but if you cannot, then on the basis of the last five financial years will suffice for the percentages.
Can you therefore please give me:
Amounts per calendar year
Amounts per financial year
Percentages per financial year.
Response
Please see attached spreadsheet.
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