Reference Number: 

FOI-170325

Fulfilment Date: 

18/03/2025

Topic:

ILF Scotland’s Employees and Salary Bands

Request:

1. Please provide a breakdown of the number of Independent Living Fund Scotland employees grouped by salary bands (e.g., £50,000–£55,000, £55,001–£60,000, etc.).
2. Please indicate the number of Independent Living Fund Scotland employees whose annual salary is £50,000 or higher.
3. Please indicate the number of Independent Living Fund Scotland employees whose annual salary is £80,000 or higher.
4. Please indicate the number of Independent Living Fund Scotland employees whose annual salary is £100,000 or higher.

Response:

1. ILF Scotland’s pay policy is in line with that of Scottish Government.  At present, ILF Scotland’s staff consists of:
   • 2 Grade A3 employees with a salary band of £25235 - £28131
   • 1 Grade A4 employee with a salary band of £29013 - £31177
   • 21 Grade B1 employees with a salary band of £32455 - £35203
   • 35 Grade B2 employees with a salary band of £36944 - £42244
   • 10 Grade B3 employees with a salary band of £45894 - £54952,
   • 2 Grade C1 employees with a salary band of £57701 - £71942
   • 3 Grade C2 employees with a salary band of £74480 - £85964
   • 2 Grade C3 employees with a salary band of £86237 - £87404, an
   • 1 Grade SCS1 employee with a salary band of £89250 - £96110.
     
2. 14 ILF Scotland employees receive an annual salary of £50000 or higher.
   
3. 6 ILF Scotland employees receive an annual salary of £80000 or higher.
   
4. 4.  0 ILF Scotland employees receive an annual salary of £100,000 or higher.

Reference Number: 

FOI-280125

Fulfilment Date: 

28/01/2025

Topic:

Expenditure on corporate functions for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024.

Request:

1. Please provide details regarding the data that your organisation submitted to the Scottish Government for total spending on corporate functions in 2022-23, broken down by the total cost of running HR, finance, commercial, communications, digital and data, and estate.
2. Please provide updated data on your organisation’s total spending on corporate functions in 2023-24, broken down by the total cost of running HR, finance, commercial, communications, digital and data, and estate.

Response:

1. ILF Scotland’s total expenditure on corporate functions for 2022 to 2023 amounted to £1,192,359. This consisted of £272,207 expenditure on Finance, £317,282 on Human Resources, £209,843 on Communications, £253,822 on Digital and Data and £139,205 on Estate.
2. ILF Scotland’s total expenditure on corporate functions for 2023 to 2024 amounted to £1,246,848. This consisted of £316.085 expenditure on Finance, £301,874 on Human Resources, £250,499 on Communications, £168,947 on Digital and Data and £209,443 on Estate.

Reference Number: 

FOI-110924

Fulfilment Date: 

30/09/2024

Topic:

The Number of FTE Communications Officers Employed by ILF Scotland and The Total Cost of Their Employment Over the Last Five Financial Years

Request: 

1. What is the total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) press and/or communications and/or media officers employed over the last five financial years (broken down by year)?
2. What is the total cost (including salaries, benefits, and other associated costs) of employing these press and/or communications and/or media officers over the last five financial years (broken down by year)?

Response:

1. During 2020-2021, ILF Scotland employed two full-time equivalent Communications Officers at a total cost of £108052.06.
2. During 2021-2022, ILF Scotland employed two full-time equivalent Officers at a total cost of £114314.26.
3. During 2022-2023, ILF Scotland employed three full-time equivalent Officers at a total cost of £160898.78.
4. During 2023-2024, ILF Scotland employed three full-time equivalent Communications Officers at a total cost of £153189.6.
5. Between 01/04/23 and 30/09/24, ILF Scotland have employed four full-time equivalent Communications Officers at a total cost of £91693.66.

Reference Number: 

FOI-110724

Fulfilment Date: 

24/07/2024

Topic:

Contracts Awarded to Supported Businesses

Request: 

1. How many contracts have ILF Scotland awarded to Supported Businesses in each of the last five financial years (i.e. 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021, 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024)?
2. What is the cumulative value of ILF Scotland’s spend on these contracts in each of these years?
3. How many contracts have ILF Scotland awarded to Supported Businesses over the course of the last five financial years via a procurement body of which ILF Scotland is a member?
4. What is the cumulative value spent by ILF Scotland on contracts awarded to Supported Business via any procurement body of which ILF Scotland is a member for each of the last five financial years?

Response:

1. ILF Scotland have not awarded any contracts to Supported Businesses over the course of the last five financial years.
2. N/A
3. N/A
4. N/A

Reference Number: 

FOI-200923

Fulfilment Date: 

22/09/2023

Topic:

Staff Training Regarding Autism and PDA Profiles

Request: 

What training have your team had in relation to autism and PDA profiles?

Response:

Assessor and Specialist Caseworker teams completed Autism Awareness Training in August 2019.  This training was provided by The Yard, Edinburgh.

4 Assessors also attended training from the Autism Resource Centre and Glasgow City Council between 2017 and 2019.

Reference Number: 

FOI-260523

Fulfilment Date: 

22/06/2023

Topic:

Expenditure on PR

Request: 

How much has ILF Scotland spent on PR over the past five financial years?

Response:

Expenditure on PR

Financial Year 2018-2019

Internal: £19,219

External: £19,804

Financial Year 2019-2020

Internal: £21,304

External: £39,877

Financial Year 2020-2021

Internal: £22,440

External: £28,303

Financial Year 2021-2022

Internal: £22,956

External: £26,439

Financial Year 2022-2023

Internal: £25,038

External: £22,425

Reference Number: 

FOI-240123

Fulfilment Date: 

25/01/2023

Topic:

Equality Impact Assessments and Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments

Request: 

I would be very grateful if you would let me know if your organisation carries out EQIAs, or the extended scope of Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EQHRIAs).

Response:

ILF Scotland carries out Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs).

Reference Number: 

FOI-130123

Fulfilment Date: 

13/01/2023

Topic:

Children’s Rights Reports

Request: 

Please provide the following the information held by your authority.

Children’s Rights Report 2017-20

1. A weblink or copy of your published report covering the first 3 year period (1 April 2017 – 31 March 2020).

2. However, if you have not yet published a report for this period can you confirm (yes/no) if you intend to do so,

2.1 And if yes, an indication of when it will be published. 

Children’s Rights Report 2020-23

3. Has your authority started work on preparing this report? Yes/No.

4. When do you intend to publish the report?

5. Will it be published as a separate report or as part of another report? Yes/No. For example, within your annual report?

5.1 If ‘yes’, published as part of another report – can you provide the name/description of the other report?

6. Are you producing a joint report with another authority?

6.1 If ‘yes’ – which authority?

7. Do you intend to create a child friendly version of the report?

8. Please provide the name and contact details of the overall lead within your authority for preparing the report.

9. Please do add in any additional information you would like to share regarding the process used to develop the report – for example whether you have involved children and young people in drafting it, whether you adopted the cluster approach as recommended by the relevant Scottish Government guidance, or the governance process used for sign off.

Response:

ILF Scotland is not amongst the listed authorities under schedule 1 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014

(https://www.gov.scot/publications/guidance-part-1-section-2-duties-public-authorities-relation-uncrc/pages/11/).

As such, ILF Scotland has no duty to report on Children’s Rights and is not preparing to do so.

Reference Number: 

FOI-101022

Fulfilment Date: 

13/10/2022

Topic:

Pay Review/Settlement

Request: 

1.  Please state the effective date (day and month) of your organisation’s 2022 pay review.

2.  If the 2022 pay review has yet to be finalised please state the month in which you anticipate it will be concluded.

3.  Please state the employee group/s covered by the 2022 pay review.

4.  Please state the total number of employees covered by the 2022 pay review.

5.  Please provide a copy of your 2022 pay agreement (if applicable) or generic pay circular sent to employees (that is one that does not identify any individual employee) outlining the outcome of the latest pay review if there are no collective negotiations.

Response:

1.  01/04/2022

2.  November.  ILF Scotland is aligned with the Scottish Government and is subject to Scottish Government timeframes.

3.  The whole workforce

4.  65

5.  This is the same as the Scottish Government’s Pay Agreement

Reference Number: 

FOI-270922

Fulfilment Date: 

13/10/2022

Topic:

Unspent Monies

Request: 

I am interested in the value of unspent monies returned in Financial Year 22 and also the first quarter (or half) of FY23 - for Scotland only.

Response:

Value of unspent monies returned in Financial Year 22 – Scotland Only - 2015 Fund:  £2,752,739.

Value of unspent monies returned to Q2 of Financial Year 23 – Scotland Only - 2015 Fund: £1,735,077.