States of Jersey Prison Service recruitment and staffing (FOI)

Request

A

Broken down by month, please kindly provide: 

• the number of hours of overtime worked by prison staff between January 2020 and the present date

• the total paid out in this period

• how many workers this relates to

B

Please confirm the average hourly rate for a prison officer.

C

Broken down by month, please also provide:

The number of staff employed at the prison in each job role (ie prison officers / teachers / admin staff and so on).

D

The number of vacancies in each team (ie prison officers / teachers and so on).

E

How many staff have left the service between January 2020 and the present date, and in which areas?

F

How many staff have been recruited between January 2020 and the present date and in which areas?

G

How much has been spent on recruitment exercises for prison officers in 2021?

H

How much has been spent on training prison officers in 2021?

I

How many prison officers have been hired but are yet to receive training and when will they join the service?

Response

A

Please see attached overtime table.

Prison Service overtime

B

Full pay scales for the prison staff are publicly available online. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (information accessible by other means) has therefore been applied.

Public sector payscales on gov.je - Prison support staff, officer and manager payscales

C

Exact staff numbers have not been disclosed for those roles where the number of employees is fewer than five. Therefore, we have been unable to provide the data as requested but for all roles however we have provided the data by pay groups to give information of the number of staff working in those pay groups, showing which job roles fall within each pay group.

Pay groups

Disclosure control has been applied to those where headcount is fewer than five to prevent identification of individuals. Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

D

The number of vacancies was extracted from the central system however when reviewed it was found to be inaccurate as it contained old posts and gave an inaccurate picture. To provide a response to this request would require manipulation of data. The Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data to provide a response. Therefore, this information is not held as per Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

E

Please see below table detailing number of staff who have left the service from January 2020 – September 2021.

Disclosure control has been applied to those where headcount is fewer than five to prevent identification of individuals. Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

F

Please see below table detailing number of staff who have joined the service from January 2020 – September 2021.

Disclosure control has been applied to those where headcount is fewer than five to prevent identification of individuals. Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

G

The cost of recruitment totals £783.00 for 2021.

H

Nothing has been spent on training, as the recruitment process is ongoing

I

As mentioned above, the recruitment process is still ongoing, therefore no prison officers have been recruited. Any new recruits will start their nine weeks training early January 2022.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.