- Request
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In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, I would be grateful if you could comply with the following request. Could you provide the following information:
1.I would like to know the number of staff recruited and employed to be Crossing Guards or School Crossing Patrol Officers (also known as Lollipop people) by your Local Authority.
2.I would like the total number of sites school crossing patrol officers operated at.
3.I would also like the approximate vacancy rate across each year.
4.Finally, I would also like to know the total budget spent on school crossing support officers.
5.I would like this information for each of the last 7 calendar years as follows: 2015, 2016,2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.
- Decision
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In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, I would be grateful if you could comply with the following request. Could you provide the following information:
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 1.I would like to know the number of staff recruited and employed to be Crossing Guards or School Crossing Patrol Officers (also known as Lollipop people) by your Local Authority. Employed 77 74 71 75 73 63 60 50 new starters 13 9 8 18 13 5 5 2 2. 2015-70
2016- 69
2017 -67
2018 – 67
2019 - 66
2020 - 61
2021 -57
2022 - 48
3. Please find below the vacancy rate for the current year. The current vacancy rate is at its highest in the period stated due to the pandemic and issues recruiting new staff to the positions despite our efforts to do so. There is no report that can be easily used to find historic data.
Financial Year
SCP filled positions (Whole County)
Number of SCPs employed this year.
Number of SCPs who have
left the role
Vacancies prioritised to actively recruit for.
Total Vacancies
Total Active SCP sites (known existing sites)
2021/2022
50
6
7
15 (3 conditional offers of employment in process)
31
81
4 -5. The reports show budget allocation to the School Crossing Patrol Service and reporting all occur on a financial year basis, not calendar year. The figures below do not include, management and supervision, on-costs, materials, and equipment etc
15/16 - £160,077
16/17 - £168,479
17/18 - £151,301
18/19 – 159,998
19/20 - £169,167
20/21 – £159,782
21/22 - £145,451
- Reference number
- FOI 3407401
- Date request received
- 16/02/22
- Date of decision
- 31/03/22