Employment of Social Workers (FOI)

Request

With regards to both permanent and agency staff, please can you supply the following information:

A

For the past three years how many social workers have joined children's services?

B

How many have left each year?

C

How many have only stayed for up to three months?

D

How many are housed in hotels on arrival?

E

How much has hotel accommodation cost per year in total?

F

Has any other group of people connected with CAMHS or Children’s services been accommodated on arrival in hotel accommodation and how match has this cost per year.

G

How long has the maximum stay in hotel accommodation been?

Response

A

B

C

All these leavers were agency staff:

D

E

Average cost per night for hotel is £77, dependent on hotel and time of year.

F

The information requested is not held in a format for the purposes of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. There is no central database where this information would be maintained.

G

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information