FOI/202600508191 · FOI · partially withheld
School Age Childcare Team headcount statistics 2024-25: FOI release
Information requested
1. The total staffing headcount (full-time equivalent) for the School Age Childcare Team for the 2024–25 financial year.
2. The total salary costs for this team for the 2024–25 financial year.
3. The pay bands (or civil service grades) represented within the team.
4. The total non-pay operational costs attributable to this team for the same period (including, where available, office, travel, consultancy, and other directly allocated costs).
Response
1. The total staffing headcount (full-time equivalent) for the School Age Childcare Team for the 2024–25 financial year.
The staff headcount for the School Age Childcare Division in this period was 31, 28.2 full-time equivalent.
2. The total salary costs for this team for the 2024–25 financial year.
Spend on staff costs for the School Age Childcare programme in 2024-25 was recorded at £2.2 million within the divisional workforce monitoring report.
3. The pay bands (or civil service grades) represented within the team.
The following is the grade representation in the School Age Childcare Division from this period:
Grade B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 Contingency Worker SCS No of Staff <5 {Section 38(1)(b)} 7 10 7 <5 {Section 38(1) (b)} <5 {Section 38(1)(b)} <5 {Section 38(1)(b)}
4. The total non-pay operational costs attributable to this team for the same period (including, where available, office, travel, consultancy, and other directly allocated costs)
The School Age Childcare Division operational costs during this period were £17,463.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested due to the below exemption(s):
Section 38(1)(b) – personal data relating to a third party
An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names, email addresses, telephone numbers of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
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Detected exemption language
The following is the grade representation in the School Age Childcare Division from this period: Grade B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 Contingency Worker SCS No of Staff <5 {Section 38(1)(b)} 7 10 7 <5 {Section 38(1) (b)} <5 {Section 38(1)(b)} <5 {Section 38(1)(b)} 4. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested due to the below exemption(s): Section 38(1)(b) – personal data relating to a third party An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party, i.e. names, email addresses, telephone numbers of individuals, and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
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