Disclosure Log

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 12 February 2025

Dear ***** *****,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/5292

Thank you for your request for information relating to Permanent Vacancy Rates in Social Worker Positions and Agency Spend.

We are now able to provide the following information:

How many permanent vacancies do you have for qualified social workers across both children and adults services and as a percentage would be useful – As of January 2025, there were 121.65 FTE Children’s vacant positions and 43.91 FTE Adult vacant positions. As a percentage against our qualified Social Work positions: Children’s 22.6% and Adults 18.9%


How many agency social worker staff do you currently have for children and adults services and what percentage is this against your FTE roles – As of 5^th February 2025, there were 55.63 FTE agency social workers in Children’s and 26.82 FTE in Adults. As a percentage against our permanent social work FTE roles: Children’s 10.4% and Adults 11.5%.


Lastly, If known do you know what was spent on agency social workers in 2024 again in both children and adults services: There was  a change in agency provider, in May last year, and therefore we cannot access accurate figures. However, from our records, there was a total spend of £7,581,156 against qualified social work agency workers for Children’s and Adults.

 

We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/5292 and we will be happy to review your request

For future reference, Nottinghamshire County Council regularly publishes previous FOI requests and answers on its website, under Disclosure logs, that may provide details relating to your query. (see link) Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.   Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or