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Response 920097

Response to request for information

Reference

920097

Response date

1 August 2022

Request

Please could you advise on the following questions for the period 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022:

  • How many external hires were made at Rushcliffe Council over this period (all vacancies)?
  • What was your total recruitment spend for this period (all vacancies)?
  • How much of this budget was spent on external agencies (all vacancies)?
    • Who are these agencies and what was their total cost per agency?
  • Who is the senior responsible officer in relation to this budget?
  • Do you have a centralised recruitment team at Rushcliffe Council or are your recruitment budgets and responsibility managed by your service leads?
    • Who are these recruitment and / or service lead?
  • What is the organisational structure within your recruitment and HR teams at Rushcliffe Council?

Response

Please could you advise on the following questions for the period 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022:

  • How many external hires were made at Rushcliffe Council over this period (all vacancies)?

    • During the last financial year (1st April 2021-31st March 2022) we made 43 hires

  • What was your total recruitment spend for this period (all vacancies)?

    • Agency expenditure – this is for the provision of agency staff - 2021/2022 - £660,619

      Advertising expenditure 2021/2022 - £19,611

  • How much of this budget was spent on external agencies (all vacancies)?
    • Who are these agencies and what was their total cost per agency?

    • Capita Property And Infrastructure Ltd £14,210

    • Frontline Recruitment Ltd £235,146

    • G2 Recruitment Solutions £78,963

    • Ghm Planning Limited £6,932

    • Macildowie Associates Limited £41,045

    • Nufuture Recruitment Ltd £12,980

    • Park Avenue £113,318

    • Sonovate Limited £9,562

    • The Oyster Partnership Ltd £525

    • Thorn Baker Limited £43,894

    • Thorn Baker Ltd £90,492

    • Vivid Resourcing (G2V Recruitment Group Ltd) £13,550

  • Who is the senior responsible officer in relation to this budget?

    • The individual senior manager within each separate department will control their own budget.

  • Do you have a centralised recruitment team at Rushcliffe Council or are your recruitment budgets and responsibility managed by your service leads? Rushcliffe Borough Council has an internal HR team
    • Who are these recruitment and/or service lead(s)? This will depend on which service area is recruiting. Any queries to HR can be directed to the HR Strategic Manager.
  • What is the organisational structure within your recruitment and hr teams at Rushcliffe Council?

    Our HR/Recruitment team comprised of 1 x HR Assistant, 1 x HR Advisor, 1 x HR Business Partner and 1 x Strategic HR Manager

FOI Responses Human Resources 2022