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5. FinanceService Area(£000)Children’s Services £3,099 £6,489 £3,166 £7,680Community Care £21,424 £17,721 £22,537 £19,683Adult Offenders £23 £29Other SW Services £2,520 £1,962 £2,539 £2,274Total £27,043 £26,194 £28,242 £29,666Spend per headSpend per head £196.03 £222.01Quartile 4 3GAE1999-2000Final netOut turn1999-20001999-2000GAE2000-2001Final netOut turn2000-20012000-2001StaffCriminal Justice services receive funding direct from the Scottish Executive, which amountedto £864,893 in 2000-2001.The Council has spent over twice the GAE level on children’s services, but no less than £3munder GAE for community care. Spend per head on social work services has increased but isstill relatively low.6. StaffingManagers & central staff 87 0.6 2 86 0.6 3Frontline staff 508 3.8 4 461 3.5 4Other 129 1.0 3 128 1.0 3Total 724 5.4 4 676 5.1 4VacanciesWTE1999actualWTE1999per 1,000Vacancies2000 % Vacancies2000Quartile1999% Vacancies2000ScotlandWTE2000actualWTE2000per 1,000Vacancies2001 % Vacancies2001Quartile2000% Vacancies2001ScotlandSWs with adults 2 3.4 7.8 1 10.0 10.9SWs with children 8 12.4 7.4 0 0 10.7SWs with offenders 0 0 7.5 0 0 7.2Generic workers 1 3.1 8.0 0 0 12.7Total 10 7.0 7.7 1 10.0 10.5The rates of staffing are lower than in many other authorities and total numbers have fallenbetween 1999 and 2000 – most of them frontline staff. In 2001 there was only one socialworker vacancy in community care and none in children’s service (compared with 8 in 1999).206