Agency Social Workers - Children's Services - Freedom of information requests

Title or Description: Agency Social Workers - Children's Services
FOI Number: 186
Date Received: 14/02/2022
Type of Request: FOI
Request or Question: Can you provide the total cost of the council spend on children's social worker agency staff in each of the past five calendar years, and the names of the companies the payments were made to?
Response: NB - totals include Social Work Assistants as system not able to differentiate between posts Calendar Year: Spend
2017 Unable to provide full calendar year figs as new finance system commenced at beg of financial year i.e. 01/04/2017
2018 £504,512.77
2019 £548,877.16
2020 £407,202.88
2021 £299,435.73
Total £1,760,028.54

Companies payments were made to:
Randstad Care Limited
Randstad Public Services CAR
Sanctuary Personnel Limited
Seven Resourcing Limited
Taylor Davenport
The Harmony Employment Agency Limited
The Social Care Community Partnership Limited
Tripod Partners