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Funding of Staff Costs within Children's Services

Meeting: 17/07/2017 - The Executive (Item 12)

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To submit a report by the Interim Head of Children’s Services.

Additional documents:

Decision:

It was RESOLVED :-

 

·      To allocate the sum of £221,257 from reserves to enable the extension of contracts of agency staff for a further three months. ( 1 Service Manager’s post to be extended until 2018 and 3 Social Workers posts until the end of December 2017); 3 additional Social Workers and a Team Manager to be recruited to cover recent vacancies and sickness absence;

·      To proceed with the second phase of the restructuring of Children’s Services (additional costs of regrading posts in Teulu Môn), which requires an additional expenditure of £17,000 (which can be funded from staffing budget for Children’s Services);

·      To give the Head of Children’s Services the flexibility to utilise some of the budget unallocated (£93,957) after the restructuring to support the implementation of the Service Improvement Plan over the next few months.

Minutes:

The report of the Interim Head of Children’s Services was presented to the Executive for approval.

 

The Assistant Chief Executive (Governance and Business Process Transformation), with responsibility for Social Services, reported that the Children’s Services is still dependent on agency staff and to fund these staff a request is submitted to the Executive to allocate a sum of £181,208 from reserves to enable the service to extend the contracts of the agency staff for a further three months whilst the authority is continuing to recruit new staff.  However, she noted that an additional funding is required due to staff movement to other posts and leaving the authority and therefore a total sum of £221,257 is required.  She noted that at present the recruitment of staff within Children’s Services has been encouraging but noted that recruitment of Managers within the service is paramount to the improvement plan of Children’s Services. 

 

Following detailed discussion by the Executive it was RESOLVED :-

 

·           To allocate the sum of £221,257 from reserves to enable the extension of contracts of agency staff for a further three months. (1 Service Manager’s post to be extended until 2018 and 3 Social Workers posts until the end of December 2017);

·           To proceed with the second phase of the restructuring of Children’s Services (additional costs of regrading posts in Teulu Môn), which requires an additional expenditure of £17,000 (which can be funded from staffing budget for Children’s Services);

·           To give the Head of Children’s Services the flexibility to utilize some of the budget unallocated (£93,957) after the restructuring to support the implementation of the Service Improvement Plan over the next few months.