29 March 2023
Your request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Adult Care and Child care services. Please may you provide me with:
I would like the information regarding all council funded adult and children's care services listing the amount spent on all external agency staffing in the last 12 months per provision
Please provide the information in the form as such as a breakdown of each care service spent on each site
Clarification added: I am just looking for agency spend in both care provisions / care settings
Our response
Adults:
The figure for agency staff in Adult Social Care internal day care is £33,362.
Children's:
Under FOI Section 1(1) any person making a request for information to a public authority is entitled (a) to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it holds information of the description specified in the request (b) if that is the case, to have that information communicated to them.
I am advised by my colleagues that Lambeth Council does not hold any such information. This is because all of the ‘day care’ provision (i.e. short breaks, residential care, supervised contact etc) is commissioned out and therefore there are no Council-employed agency staff and thus no spend in these services. Please note that it may be the case that these providers employ agency staff themselves however that information would sit with individual provider and is not held by the Council
Consequently, the answer to Section 1(1)(a) is no and thus our further duty under 1(1)(b) does not arise on this occasion.