South Gloucestershire Council

Integra is a South Gloucestershire Council division who trade with schools, local public sector organisations and local businesses, and provide services to the Council. Integra was established as a single ‘Trade Services’ team in 2011 when the catering, cleaning and professional support services were brought together within the Council and the large majority of schools funding was devolved to schools.  With input from South Gloucestershire schools, Traded Services rebranded as Integra, the trading arm of South Gloucestershire Council, in 2015.

FTE is calculated based on the number of contracted hours worked by an employee where 37 hours = 1 FTE. Therefore 1 FTE may equate to 1 employee being contracted to work full time (37 hours a week) or made up of a number of employees who are contracted to work less than 37 hours per week. The following table shows the number of FTE by department. Please note an employee’s FTE is counted in each role they work in.

Department	Mar-10	Mar-13	Mar-14	Mar-15	Mar-16	Mar-17	Mar-18
CAH	1,523.30	989.2	929.6	909.9	906.9	918.1	909.2
	48%	38%	37%	37%	38%	39%	40%
ECS	888.7	734.6	720.3	706.8	714	742.1	728.1
	28%	29%	29%	29%	30%	32%	32%
CECR	502.8	482.2	464.5	443.8	416.9	413.6	404.5
	16%	19%	19%	18%	17%	18%	18%
Integra	279.5	365.4	372.5	379.7	355.5	269.8	248.6
	11%	15%	15%	16%	15%	12%	11%
Council wide (excluding Schools)	3,194.30	2,571.40	2,486.90	2,440.10	2393.3	2343.7	2290.30

Headcount is the number of people employed by the Council. The following table displays the headcount of employees by department. Please note an employee is counted once in their main post, no matter how many contracts they hold or how many departments they hold contracts in. Headcount excludes casual workers, but includes zero hour contracts if the zero hour contract is the main or only post

Department	Mar-10	Mar-13	Mar-14	Mar-15	Mar-16	Mar-17	Mar-18
CAH	2,466	1,875	1,190	1,202	1227	1263	1280
	60%	57%	37%	37%	37%	39%	41%
ECS	1,078	888	866	852	888	925	911
	26%	27%	27%	26%	27%	29%	29%
CECR	571	548	528	510	480	477	460
	14%	17%	16%	16%	15%	15%	15%
Integra	*	*	634	693	693	534	487
			19%	21%	21%	17%	16%
Council wide	4,115	3,311	3,218	3,257	3,288	3,199	3,138

The following table displays the number of full and part time contracts by department within the Council. A full time contract is classed as 37 hours or more. An employee is counted once in each contract they hold.

Full-Time	Dept	Mar 10	Mar 13	Mar 14	Mar 15	Mar 16	Mar 17	Mar 18
	CAH	909	710	716	598	581	576	603
	ECS	679	565	550	531	538	558	550
	CECR	402	369	353	336	313	316	314
	Integra				95	84	81	75
	Council	1990	1644	1619	1560	1516	1531	1542
Part-time	Dept	Mar 10	Mar 13	Mar 14	Mar 15	Mar 16	Mar 17	Mar 18
	CAH	1837	1386	1195	529	587	614	790
	ECS	459	372	377	379	382	395	383
	CECR	172	186	182	178	169	165	149
	Integra				662	628	438	455
	Council	2,468	1,944	1,754	1,748	1,766	1,612	1,777

The government introduced a public sector apprenticeship target in April 2017 in accordance with The Public Sector Apprenticeship Targets Regulations 2017. The regulations set a target for any public sector employer in England with at least 250 employees to employ an average of 2.3% of their staff as new apprentice starts between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2021.

The target set is for all new apprenticeship starts which includes both newly employed and any existing employees that have begun any training via the apprenticeship route. Prescribed groups and public sector bodies with 250 or more staff in England have a target to employ an average of at least 2.3% of their staff as new apprentice starts over the period of 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2021. Bodies in scope must have regard to the target. The Government considers the duty to ‘have regard’ to the target to mean that, in making workforce planning decisions, public bodies should actively consider apprenticeships.

Reporting Percentages

Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) as a proportion of employment starts between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018	4.99%
Percentage of total headcount that were apprentices on 31 March 2018	0.76%
Percentage of apprenticeship starts (both new hires and existing employees who started an apprenticeship) between 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 as a proportion of total headcount on 31 March 2017	0.74%

 

The Council has a neutral vendor supplier contract with Comensura to facilitate the provision of agency staff workers. If the suppliers that are signed up to the Comensura framework are unable to supply suitable agency workers then the Council will, as a last resort, work with non-Comensura agencies to engage an agency worker.

Council spending on agency workers is detailed below.

	2011/12	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16	2016/17	2017/18
Comensura	£186,455	£1,808,707	£1,957,576	£2,791,789	£4,120,837	£4,173,476
	6%	76%	82%	80%	76%	74%
Non Comensura	£2,691,302	£575,191	£433,130	£698,963	£1,314,149	£1,449,614
	94%	24%	18%	20%	24%	26%
Total	£2,877,757	£2,390,706	£3,490,752	£5,434,986	£5,623,089	£4,385,400

The following table shows the number of days absent due to sickness per FTE by department across the Council.

Department	Mar-10	Mar-13	Mar-14	Mar-15	Mar-16	Mar-17	Mar-18
CAH		10.24	9.08	10.68	9.31	10.81	10.09
ECS		8.22	6.93	7.95	7.00	7.16	7.19
CECR		6.84	5.92	8.00	6.47	6.51	7.04
Integra*				13.21	12.27	11.91	9.05
Council wide	10.06	9.52	7.87	9.78	8.57	9.07	8.51

*Integra was included in CAH data prior to 2015.

Details on our senior manager pay and structure is available here: http://www.southglos.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/performance/value-for-money/senior-officers-pay/

Our equalities report is published annually and can be found here: http://www.southglos.gov.uk/community-and-living/equality-and-diversity/monitoring-equalities-information-and-reports/