Response 3791999

Response to request for information

Reference

3791999

Response date

19 August 2025

Request

1. The amount spent by the council on temporary (or additional supply) staff from recruitment and employment agencies. Please can this be broken down into spending on temporary staff from recruitment and employment agencies in relation to:
   1. Children's social care (vulnerable children)
   2. Adult's social care
   3. Other
2. The total amount spent by the council on all staff (including permanent staff, agency staff and freelancers etc).

Please can the information be broken down by year, for the last five financial years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25).

Response

You requested information for the last five financial years (2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25).  Please be aware that our Finance department have not had the 2024/25 accounts audited yet and therefore have not supplied this information, so instead I have provided information for the previous 5 years: 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24.

2019-20

• Employees: £6,890,314.46
• Casual: £26,243.69
• Agency: £328,327.03
• Total: £7,244,885.18

2020-21

• Employees: £6,874,030.36
• Casual: £13,611.08
• Agency: £519,304.46
• Total: £7,406,945.90

2021-22

• Employees: £7,099,093.84
• Casual: £16,970.49
• Agency: £730,619.73
• Total: £7,846,684.06

2022-23

• Employees: £8,577,477.44
• Casual: £31,134.18
• Agency: £929,811.91
• Total: £9,538,423.53

2023-24

• Employees: £9,903,930.20
• Casual: £33,146,.63
• Agency: £699,609.85
• Total: £10,636,686.68

Please also note that we do not have any staff involved in social care (for either children or adults) as this falls under the remit of Nottinghamshire County Council. Therefore all staff at Rushcliffe Borough Council fall under your request c) – other.