FOI release

SEN staff and costs - January 2017 to January 2022

Case reference FOI2022/00150

Published 28 February 2022

Request

This is an FOI request about SEND staff. Please provide all of this information for January 2017 to January 2022, broken down on a quarterly basis (so 4 times a calendar year):

Q1a) How many people in your whole SEN team - (everybody in the team including managers/senior staff and officers/case workers)

Q1b) How many SEN officers in your team (just officers - or whatever equivalent title you use for SEN staff that are the primary point of contact with families, e.g officers, or caseworkers)

Q1c) How many temporary (agency) SEN workers in your team Please specify/include each time a new SEN staff member has left or joined the team within this same timeframe also broken down on a quarterly basis

Q2a) What was the total the council spent on all SEN staff salaries in this period (also quarterly)

Q2b) What was the total the council spend on SEN officers' salaries

Q2c) What was the total spent on temporary (agency) SEN workers

Q3) Have the qualifications required in order to get a job with the council as a SEN officer changed at all during this time? If so, please specify

Response

Please see the attached spreadsheet.

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