27 June 2023
Your request
1. How many permanent/FTC hires did you make in the calendar year 2022?
2. How do you manage permanent recruitment? E.g. internal team, outsourced etc.
3. If outsourced, what service do they provide and who is your service provider, when does the contract end?
4. How much did you spend in a year on permanent recruitment to the nearest £100k for 2022/23?? Please include any advertising costs and fees paid to agencies.
5. How many agency hires in a year did you make in 2022?
6. How do you manage the recruitment of Agency staff? E.g. a neutral vend provider, recruitment agencies direct, managed service? Where do you advertise permanent / FTC and temporary roles currently?
7. If the answer to question 6 involves a 3rd party, when does this contract expire? When will you decide on the future method & procurement? Who is the 3rd party?
8. On average how many temporary staff did you have engaged on a monthly basis(as an average) for 2022?
9. How much did you spend in a year on Agency temporary recruitment to the nearest £100k for 2022/23?
Our response
- We cannot provide information for the calendar year due to a switch in the use of the council’s applicant tracking system in July 2022. We can however confirm that we made 761 hires between April 2022 and March 2023
- The council has an internal team.
- Not applicable
- £200,000
- 1230 during 2022
- Neutral vend provider / Permanent and fixed term roles are advertised on the council website. Additional recruitment advertising may be used in places such as Guardian Jobs, Linkedin and other specialist trade press.
- The current contract is due to expire in September 2023 and a further extension for one year is currently being sought while a future procurement takes place.
- Average monthly placement headcount is 586
- £39.9m