Financial Spend During the Financial Year 2024/2025 for Social Care Agency Staff

1. Please can you provide the financial spend during the financial year 2024/2025 for social care agency staff

2. Who are the current Heads of Service and Assistant Directors in both Adults and Childrens Social Care sector.

3. What is the current amount of live vacancies (to date) in social care? What are they? eg Social Workers, Occupational Therapists etc?

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

1. Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.

2.  Heather Sandy – Director of Children’s Services - heather.sandy@lincolnshire.gov.uk

 -  Tara Jones: Assistant Director, Children’s Safeguarding

-   Jo Kavanagh: Assistant Director, Early Help

-   Linda Dennett: Assistant Director, Children’s Health & Commissioning

-   Martin Smith: Assistant Director, Children’s Education

-   Sarah Nardone: Assistant Director, Sector Led Improvement (currently on secondment in Nottingham)

3. We have 3 advertised vacancies within Adult Care (based on the LCC jobs site which is all we can go on, and it does ask for live vacancies). To the best of my knowledge as follows are the current live vacancies.

1x Social Worker level 2 (Lincoln) 

2 x Social Worker Advanced Practitioners (1 x Lincoln 1 x Boston)

 There are 10 x Job coaches also (unqualified- county wide locations)