It means the department is currently spending around £1.5 million a month on agency staff. The figures were revealed in a financial document being discussed by Bradford Council’s Executive on Tuesday. The Quarter 4 financial report says the Council’s social care budget has overspent by £4.9 million in the past year due to higher workloads and an increased reliance on agency staff. As of February there were 149 agency social workers employed in the service. In April 2019 there were just 53 agency social workers at the Council. And it was recently revealed that 34 agency workers have worked for the Council’s Children’s Services for over a year.
File photo of someone using a laptop THE pandemic is having a “considerable impact” on the risk to vulnerable people of extremist groups. A new report into the Prevent strategy in Bradford says long periods of isolation, more time spent online and a lack of interaction with teachers and other services is increasing the chances that vulnerable people in the District might be targeted by extremist groups. Each year Bradford Council’s Corporate Scrutiny Committee is given an update on the Prevent scheme - a national programme to reduce the risk of people being radicalised by extremist groups - in the Bradford District.
“Individuals can be very vulnerable to the on-line narrative.” Members will also be given a report by the Commission for Countering Extremism looking at conspiracy theories involving the pandemic. It was written last Summer, following the first National lockdown, but many of the issued raised in the document have remained almost a year into the pandemic. It says: “During the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen an increased visibility of conspiracy theories ranging from anti-vaccine, anti-establishment to anti-minority and antisemitic. “They are not specific to any one ideology, but are used by the Far Right, Far Left and Islamists to further their own ideological aims.”
Why councillors are so keen to delay sale of Anglesey golf course land
Some want new homes on the site but the cash was meant to be for council-run leisure services
12:17, 9 MAR 2021
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The sale of land which made up a council-run golf course should be delayed in order to maximise its worth, according to councillors, which could include houses being built on part of the site.
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