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    • FOI request (FOIR-523554004)

      Spend

      Requested Tue 13 June 2023
      Responded Fri 06 October 2023

      I would be grateful if you could please provide the following for each of the last three financial years, 2020/21-2022/23:
      (i)                 Total spend on staffing
      (ii)                Total spend on agency staff
      (iii)               Initial budget for spend on agency staff
      (iv)               Annual percentage turnover rate
      (v)                Annual percentage sickness absence rate
      If possible, the above 5 requests also broken down by department across your local authority
      I would greatly appreciate it if this could be provided in spreadsheet format.

      Response

      Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

      1.

      2020/21 £15,541,436.94

      2021/22 £16,110,268.03

      2022/23 £16,742,284.36

      (note - these totals include Agency Staff totals)

      2.

      2020/21 - £827,327.18

      2021/22 - £797,784.72

      2022/23 - £1,235,070.48

      3.

      2020/21 - £435,940

      2021/22 - £427,260

      2022/23 - £435,610

      Turnover rate as follows, we do not hold this information by department (see below):

      2020/21 - 15%

      2021/22 - 19%

      2022/23 - 18%

      Sickness, we don't hold our sickness information as a percentage, its held as days lost per staff member per year, sickness information is not broken down and held by departments due to limitations of our current system.

      2020/21 - 8.79 days lost per staff member

      2021/22 - 8.38 days lost per staff member

      2022/23 - 9.21 days lost per staff member

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