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Clackmannanshire5. FinanceService Area(£000)GAE1999-2000Final netOut turn1999-2000GAE2000-2001Final netOut turn2000-2001Children’s Services £1,940 £3,517 £1,948 £3,861Community Care £7,603 £7,191 £7,976 £7,474Adult Offenders £336 £617Other SW Services £944 £692 £946 £570Total £10,487 £11,737 £10,870 £12,522Spend per head1999-20002000-2001Spend per head £242.20 £258.39Quartile 2 2Criminal Justice services receive funding from the Scottish Executive, £395,686 was providedin 2000-2001. Children’s services expenditure includes Family Centres for which social serviceshad no responsibility until 1 June 2002.Expenditure on children’s services is significantly and consistently above the GAE. Expenditureon other social work services is significantly lower. Spend per head on social work services isrelatively high.6. StaffingStaffWTE1999actualWTE1999per 1,000Quartile1999WTE2000actualWTE2000per 1,000Quartile2000Managers & central staff 26 0.5 3 48 1.0 1Frontline staff 176 3.6 4 162 3.3 4Other 91 1.9 1 75 1.6 1Total 293 6.0 3 285 5.9 3VacanciesVacancies2000 % Vacancies2000% Vacancies2000ScotlandVacancies2001 % Vacancies2001% Vacancies2001ScotlandSWs with adults 0 0 7.8 1 5.3 10.9SWs with children 2 11.4 7.4 3 16.2 10.7SWs with offenders 0 0 7.5 0 0 7.2Generic workers 0 0 8.0 0 0 12.7Total 2 4.5 7.7 4 8.2 10.5Rates of front-line staff are relatively low but managerial and central staff are relatively high.The number of managers increased significantly from 1999 to 2000. The rate of ‘other’ staff isalso high. Vacancy rates are low in most areas but high in children’s services.The difficulties in recruiting qualified social work staff for children’s services have been serious,with a fifth of staff resigning in 2001. A recent reorganisation of childcare services, coupledwith success in recruiting two newly qualified staff in early 2002, has improved the situation.There are no significant difficulties in recruiting staff in community care or criminal justice.45