Spend on temporary staff from recruitment and employment agencies

I would like to request the following information from the council from the last five financial years (2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025):

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:

a.) Children's social care (vulnerable children)

b.) Adult's social care

c.) 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 (2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, 2024/2025).

1.

a.

	Oncontract
2020/2021	£1,744,457.72
2021/2022	£2,546,066.91
2022/2023	£3,326,217.03
2023/2024	£3,444,724.62
2024/2025	£3,753,475.64

b.

	Oncontract
2020/2021	£808,086.96
2021/2022	£844,114.89
2022/2023	£1,141,257.19
2023/2024	£1,318,143.91
2024/2025	£2,172,763.35

c.

	Oncontract	off-contract	Total
2020/2021	£1,006,202.15	£190,229.02	£1,196,431.17
2021/2022	£1,348,308.36	£923,279.09	£2,271,587.45
2022/2023	£1,259,821.58	£844,242.29	£2,104,063.87
2023/2024	£1,580,367.33	£1,754,060.02	£3,334,427.35
2024/2025	£1,902,027.02	£2,254,098.49	£4,156,125.51

2.

	Total
2020/2021	324,580,897.36
2021/2022	332,128,417.89
2022/2023	356,996,809.79
2023/2024	406,149,739
2024/2025	445,922,841
Total	1,865,778,705.04

All includes Schools, covered by dedicated schools grant (DSG)

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4 August 2025

1 December 2025