FOI request (FOIR-649779946)

External consultants and training firms

Requested Wed 25 September 2024
Responded Mon 14 October 2024

Please can you provide me with the spend by your organisation on external consultants and training firms in the previous 12 months or the most recent 12-month period for which the data is available.

Please break down the spend by type of consultancy service or training service provided.

Response

External Training - including subscriptions for eLearning and webinar subscription:

eLearning package/subscription - £8,400

Shape Course Content Creator - £8,000

Webinar Training annual subscription - £5,300

External Training for individual members of staff - £2,200

Sussex Training Consortium Subscription - £1,600

Consultancy Spend - October 2023 to September 2024 - broken down by areas (cost centres):

Dangerous Structures - £5,510

Development Management - £4,200

Revenues Division - £2,258.75

Senior Leadership Team - £25,987.75

Social Lettings - £300

Towns Fund - £19,953.66