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

1. How many external hires were made at Wokingham Council over this period (all vacancies)?
331 new starters

2. What was your total recruitment spend for this period (all vacancies)?
• Advertising & Interview costs: £102,291
• Agency Staff: £7,663,882
• Agency Supply Teaching Staff: £508,558

3.
a) How much of this budget was spent on external agencies (all vacancies)?
See Q2
b) Who are these agencies and what was their total cost per agency?
Addibok Property Limited: 18,450
Attenti Ltd: 19,161
Bacolet & Co Limited: 78,199
BRG Interim Solutions Ltd: 30,245
Bristol City Council: 13,102
Campbell Tickell Ltd: 9,500
Careline: 16,212
Carrington West Ltd: 14,216
Eden Brown Ltd: 32,291
Enablecare Rehab Solutions Limited: 68,381
ForeTwo Group Limited: 1,140
Frontline Staffing: 6,509
G2 RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LTD: 59,407
GatenbySanderson: 9,912
General Sundry AP Account: 39,789
Get Active Sports (RSR Sports Limited): 2,320
Hamptons Resourcing Limited: 2,294
Hays Specialist Recruitment: 48,125
IQ READING LTD: 0
L Miles Associates Ltd: 1,013
Law Morgan Limited: 67,678
Macdonald and Company Freelance LTD: 99,004
Matchtech Group UK Ltd: 304,768
Matrix SCM Ltd: 3,277,611
Morgan Hunt UK Ltd: 141,072
Non Stop Recruitment Contractor Payments: 259,068
Panoramic Associates Ltd: 195,500
Paragon Locums Ltd: 402,403
Patrice-Farrell Limited: 45,708
Penna Plc: 427,747
Permanent Futures Limited: 595,758
Pulse Healthcare Limited: 18,200
Red Sector Recruitment Ltd: 321,512
Reed Specialist Recruitment: 101,278
Target Umbrella Limited: 65,040
Teaching Personnel Limited: 19,842
Tempest Resourcing Ltd: 16,002
The Oyster Partnership Limited: 95,283
THJH LIMITED: 145,350
Vivid Resourcing Limited: 7,651
(blank): 1,095,923
Gatenby Sanderson: 45,933
Hays: 32,450
The Joshua Academy: 2,750
ZZ Working: 0
The Oyster Partnership Ltd 9,740
Care Management Group Ltd: 0
Thames Valley Police: 0
CABE: 188
James Andrews Recruitment Solutions: 0
Sanctuary Personnel Ltd: 0
Adibok Property Ltd: 1,025

4. Who is the senior responsible officer in relation to this budget?
See answer to Q5

5. Do you have a centralised recruitment team at Wokingham Council or are your recruitment budgets and responsibility managed by your service leads?
No, recruitment spend is managed within service budgets
a) Who are these recruitment and/or service lead(s)?
All managers have responsibility for their own recruitment through our self-service procedures.

6. What is the organisational structure within your recruitment and HR teams at Wokingham Council?
We do not have a centralised recruitment team within HR. See answer to Q5.
HR structure currently under review.