Expenditure for children's and young people's services - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. What was the expenditure for the following financial years / budget for those upcoming (or counts, where relevant)?

2016/17 - 2017/18 - 2018/19 - 2019/20 - 2020/21 - 2021/22 - 2022/23 - 2023/24

a) Overall expenditure for children's and young people's services

b) Overall expenditure for youth services

c) Overall number of youth centres in local authority

d) Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (Head count)

e) Overall number of directly employed youth workers and youth support workers (FTE)

2) Please state whether directly employed youth workers are employed on JNC, NJC, SJC, or other terms and conditions (please specify):

1. JNC for Youth and Community Workers

2. National Joint Council (NJC)

3. Scottish Joint Council (SJC)

4. Other (please specify)

5. No direct youth provision


3) Please supply a copy of the current youth service staffing structure showing the grade and rate of pay, gender and race for each post. Please attach a copy of this separately to your email response and state below whether it is attached or not.

Decision

1.

a.                                                                          

Year

£,000

2016-2017

83,415

2017-2018

81,566

2018-2019

84,654

2019-2020

88,632

2020-2021

90,229

2021-2022

94,945

2022-2023

95,297

2023-2024

100,591

Please note 2023-2024 are budget figures.

b.

Year

£,000

2016-2017

1,268

2017-2018

1,068

2018-2019

1,128

2019-2020

994

2020-2021

984

2021-2022

1,196

2022-2023

1,196

2023-2024

1,244

 

Please note 2023-2024 are budget figures.

c. 20.

d. 14.

e. 8.50.

2. Our Youth Workers are employed on our NJC Local Government Pay Spine. Please see attached.

3. Please see attached for your response.

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.

Reference number
7851845
Date request received
11 September 2023
Date of decision
17 October 2023