last week in current role - new contract starting next week

[Worzel]

1 week notice?

Very rare to be on 1 week notice from either side. Client or agency has dropped the ball there methinks. This also means theres no harm in using it to your advantage seeing as you have already bagged another contract!

[Scrag Meister]

TBH, this is typical permie (manager) behaviour.

You can bet your bottom dollar they still wouldn't have had their act together if you had stayed for the 3 weeks they wanted.

Reminds me of when I quit my permie job to go contracting.

Gave them the months notice and as the weeks ticked I way it was obvious they hadn't made any plans for a replacement.

Lo and behold in my last week I get asked if I can do another few weeks!

Told them where to go and eventually, with a couple of days left, they get a temp in who I can handover to.

OP - as others have said don't worry about it.

Sounds similar to me, when I left the contract before last I gave a months notice (ran to the contract termination date) and then it took ClientCo 27 days to get a repalcement in. So I had to attempt to hand over 3 years of work, apps and system understanding in 2 days!! Yeah right!