Decision details

This report discusses arrangements for temporary staff i.e. agency workers across a number of services.

The current contract for Temporary Staff is coming to an end in April and proposes options for the future procurement of temporary staff arrangements.

Cabinet approved Option 3 as described in section 3 of the report which was to competitively procure a temporary staff contract via a framework with an approximate value of £1.3m per annum.

Without the availability of temporary staff, key functions would be left short of staff.

Short fixed term contracts are hard to recruit to and do not offer flexibility required.