IAR-002422 Response

West 1 = former Penwith District Council area

West 2= former Kerrier District Council area

East 1 = former North Cornwall District Council area

East 2 = former Caradon District Council area

Central 1 = former Carrick District Council area

Central 2 = former Restormel Borough Council area

Jobline Staffing (Agency)

Forty agency workers have been employed through Jobline for more than eleven months. Staffing numbers by workplace are supplied in the accompanying Excel spreadsheet. A total of 40 temps have been working for more than 11 months.

The responses below exclude temporary workers employed through Jobline Staffing (unless stated). Some departments do not hold the information in the format requested. All available information is provided.

Adult Care & Support

See Jobline Excel spreadsheet.

Children, Schools & Families

Data is not held in the format requested. Please see accompanying excel spreadsheet for information available.

Environment, Planning and Economy

Highway Design Service

1. Please provide for your area the total number of agency workers

in use. - 12

3. Total numbers of agency staff who have been employed for more

than 11 months - 5

4. Please provide a list of Agencies used to provide staff and the

length of contract they are given.

Filesave South West Ltd - Specialist Company (Technical AM and Database) - 12 Months on 1 weeks notice

G&L Ltd – Specialist Supplier (Technical Asbestos) – 6 Weeks at 2 weeks notice.

Abatec, Fusion People, Hayes, JobLine, Supplynet Ltd and Revive typically on no contract, minimum notice 1 day to 1 week.

Highways Development Management [Development Control]

Has 4 agency staff; 1 of which has been employed for more than 11 months.

3 are contracted through Fusion People, with 1 contracted through Jobline Staffing.

Operations - East 2 (former Caradon District Council)

Obviously very seasonal as we try to avoid using Agency staff at all and would in any case only use them between March - Oct inclusive. Figures are for this summer season.

1.5

2.1 Public Convenience cleaner, 1 Seasonal Road Sweeper, 3 Seasonal Ground Maintenance General Labourers

3.0

4."Staffwise"No contract period - used ad hoc

Bereavement Services

  1. None at present
  2. EP & E Bereavement Services – Gardeners between 4/5/09 and 11/9/09(last invoice paid).
  3. None
  4. Travail Employment Group

Operations – Central (former Carrick District Council and Restormel Borough Council)

  • Environment Support Officer. Joined 4th August. Works for Jobline on an ongoing temporary basis (day to day, no contract in place)
  • Admin support, jobshare. Joined week 28/09/09. Also working for Jobline on a temp basis, no contract.
  • 1 X Grounds Maintenance Operations. Jobline Staffing.
  • No one employed for more than 11 months.

Grounds maintenance

6 seasonal from April to end of August = 6 months using R Fox

2 seasonal from April to end of September = 7 months using R Fox

4 Beach Cleaning April to end of September = 7 using R Fox

1 Public Toilets April to end of September = 7 Ac1 recruitment

Street cleansing

3 cleansing operative June to end of August = 4 months using R Fox

None for more than 11 months

Cornwall Development Company

1.Please provide for your area the total number of agency workers in use.

3 full time and 2 part time.

2.Please provide a departmental break down of agency staff use.

All within CDC but can be split further as follows by division:

1 full time Partnership and Funds Services (maternity cover)

2 part time Project Development

1 full time Low Carbon Cornwall

1 full time Business Services

3.Total numbers of agency staff who have been employed for more than 11 months

1 temp

4.Please provide a list of Agencies used to provide staff and the length of contract they are given.

Jobline staffing.

Economic Development Service

Convergence Partnership Office - The Partnership Office has 1 agency staff, supplied through Jobline. They have worked there for 3 months, on a week to week temp basis. This post has now been filled subject to contract etc.

They also have a cleaner supplied through Wise Employment who does 2 hours a day and has worked there over 11 months.

Economic Strategy Team - Has 1 agency staff supplied through Jobline. He works full time and has worked here over 11 months.

Transportation

In Parking Operations we have two agency staff until the end of September

Anita – I have 4 admin agency staff – all through Jobline.

Planning & Regeneration East (former North Cornwall & Caradon District Council Areas)

1. Agency Workers

Admin and Registration – Planning and Regeneration

East 1: None

East 2: 2 Admin

  1. As above
  2. None
  3. Staffwise SW Ltd, 26 Dean Street, LiskeardPL14 4AA.

Both the above are on a week to week basis – no set contract.

IS

See Jobline Excel spreadsheet

Revenues & Benefits

Please see accompanying excel spreadsheet

Property

Number of Agency Workers - 19

Agencies used – Jobline, Reed, Concorde, Anders Elite, Smith & Reed, Wise.

Number of agency workers employed for more than eleven months – 12

Fire

1.8 temporary staff at present

3.1 member of staff has been employed for more than 11 months. 1 will have completed 11 months in October.

4.We have used Concorde, Winners, Reed, Abacus and Cornwall Staffing Agency

We contact whichever agency can supply us with the staff we need on a temporary often urgent basis

Public Health & Protection

West 1 & 2 – NIL response

East 1 & 2 – NIL response

Central 2 – NIL response

Licensing Central – NIL response

Central 1 – 2 agency workers employed

Housing

East 1 –

  1. 4 agency workers
  2. All in Housing
  3. All have been employed for more than 11 months
  4. They are booked through, Venn Group, Reed and Jobline Staffing.

East 2 - The answer is 1. The agency is Hays Construction and Property.

Customer Services

1. Total number of agency workers in use: 45(3 of these through Jobline)

2. Departmental break down of agency staff use: 45

3. Total numbers of agency staff who have been employed for more than 11 months:3

4. Agencies used to provide staff and the length of contract they are given:

Wise Recruitment, Jobline, Smith and Reed and Concorde.No contract is given.

HR & Confident Cornwall

Occupational Health 1, Business Support 1, Confident Cornwall Programme 4, One Cornwall Team (Transition) 4, One Cornwall Team (Transformation) 2 and One Cornwall Team (Resourcing) 1.

Total numbers of agency staff who have been employed for more than 11 months – None

Libraries

As well as Jobline the Library Service also use Wise Employment – details as follows;

1)Fowey – 10 temps registered – used on a rota basis

2)Libraries

3)0 for over 11 months

4)Wise – No contract dated

Finance

1.Current Finance department agency staff

Exchequer – 16 staff

Business support – 5 staff

SUN team support – 6 staff

2.Of those staff listed above – only 2 has been employed for more than 11 months.

3.Agencies currently in use are:

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited

RobertHalf

Cornwall Staff Agency

PSC Ltd

Cattspaw Limited

Venn Group Ltd

CCMS 2000 Ltd

The length of contract given varies on the task required and is of no standard length.

Corporate Procurement & Commissioning Unit

The total number of agency workers in use = 7

The total numbers of agency staff who have been employed for more

than 11 months = Nil

Agencies used to provide staff -

Hudson

Hays

Venn Group

MichaelPage

Nicoll Curtain

Response to Question 4.

  • All suppliers within the Preferred Suppliers List (PSL) are contracted from 01/05/09 to 01/05/10 but the Council has an option to extend the contract by 6 months up to 01/11/10
  • The list of agencies used to provide staff within the PSL are:

Abacus Recruitment
AC1 Recruitment
Allied Healthcare (UK) Ltd
Ark Nursing and Care Agency
AS Recruiting Ltd
Aztec Recruitment
Badenoch & Clark
Beresford Blake Thomas Ltd
Blue Group International Ltd
CDI AndersElite Ltd
Computer People
Concept Recruitment Limited
Concorde Recruitment
Cornwall Development Company T/A Jobline
Cornwall Staff Agency
Deekay Technical Recruitment Ltd
Fusion People
Hays
Heart of the South Care Agency Ltd
Matchtech Group plc
MichaelPage
Next Generation
Nursefinders
Paramount Personnel Ltd
Phoenix Health Care Services Ltd
Pinnacle Health Care Limited T/A BNA
Reed Employment Plc
Revive Employment
Sanctuary Personnel Ltd
Smith & Reed Recruitment Ltd
Staffwise (SW) Ltd.
Summit Computer Recruitment Ltd
Supplynet Ltd.
Travail Employment Group
Winners Personnel
Wise Employment