CSC Retention Payment Scheme

Request 857248295

Please provide the following information in relation to the Children's Social Care retention payment scheme introduced during 2022/2023: 

1) The total number of employees who received a retention payment under the scheme. 

2) Of those employees, the number who left the role or otherwise ceased to meet the eligibility requirements before the end of the retention period. 

3) Of those identified in question 2: 

- the number who repaid the retention payment in full; 

the number who repaid part of the retention payment; and

-the number from whom no repayment was recovered. 

4) If this information is held, the total amount of retention payments recovered by the Government under the scheme.

Response

1. The Children’s Social Care (CSC) Retention Payment was applied to all social workers employed by the Government of Jersey who met the eligibility criteria during a specific time period; a list of those in receipt of the payment was not recorded. In order to collate this data, the individual employment files for each social worker employed during that time period would need to be reviewed, which would take in excess of 12.5 hours. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

2. – 4. When employees leave the Government of Jersey’s employment, their individual employee files are reviewed to ascertain whether any money is owed. There are several reasons why money may be owed when an employee ceases their employment. In order to collate this data, all social work employee files who were employed during that time period would need to be reviewed, which would take in excess of 12.5 hours. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.

Article Applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

​​​(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.​