I am writing to make an open government request for all information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please send me all available details relating to the following questions:

1. Has your local authority employed any entire children’s social work team, sometimes referred to as a managed team, through an agency over the last five years?
a) How many teams have you used?
We used one team in 2018 at a cost of 205k

2. If so, which area of children’s social care were agency teams employed to cover?
Duty, Triage and Assessment Team

3. How long were any agency children’s social work teams employed by the local authority - please provide the average length of each assignment?
5 months

4. What was the cost of employing children’s social work teams, sometimes referred to as managed teams, through an agency, to the local authority over the last five years, as a year-on-year breakdown?
2018: 205k

5. Details regarding the number of children’s social workers employed individually through an agency by your local authority over the last five years as a year-on-year breakdown.
We do not report on this

6. The cost to the local authority of employing individual children’s social workers (permanent staff not agency) over the last five years.
2017: data for 2017 is incomplete / unavailable.
2018: 1,956,180
2019: 2,458,886
2020: 2,532,585
2021: 1,765,442