Your Ref: request 10192
Our Ref: FOI 2877
Date: 07 May 2009
[email address]
Dear Linda Burnip
Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request for Information
I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the Authority
under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please find the
information you have requested enclosed.
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Birmingham City Council, it may be that, due to the size and amount of
information held by Birmingham City Council, some information has been
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Yours sincerely
Philip Wilson
Please reply to:
Adults and Communities
Level 6
Telephone
: 0121 303 9462
Louisa Ryland House
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Birmingham B3 3PL
www.birmingham.gov.uk/adults
Peter Hay, Strategic Director, Adults and Communities
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Freedom of Information Officer
Using data from 2007-8 you have stated that 15% of the total adult care
budget is spent on community/home care, and 34% on residential care.
Please could you tell me what the remaining 51% of the adult social care
budget is spent on?
2007/08 Budget (gross or expenditure)
Direct Residential
39.8%
Direct Community
24.0%
Assessment/Strategy
25.5%
Indirect Residential
1.2%
Indirect Community
0.9%
Other Adult Services
3.1%
Older People Services
2.9%
Adults with Disab/Vuln etc. 2.6%
It is noted that budget information is not usually presented in this format or to this
split and that some data analysis was required. These figures reflect allocation of
particular service areas to either Residential or Community where they
predominantly fit into that category. The earlier FOI release of percentages was
based on a different allocation and the current approach is considered to be a
step forward and to more accurately represent the service split.
Care in the community would cover such issues as day care, supported living,
meals at home, in addition to home support and home care, which just relate to
the provision of care at home.
What are the amounts available for providing adult social care for 2009-
2010? How much of this is expected to be spent on providing personalised
budgets and Direct payments? What percentage of total spend is this?
The net budget for 2009/10 for adult social care is £292,579,537 including Direct
Payments £12,554,600 (4.3%). It is estimated that the spend on Personalised
Budgets will be approx £15m (5%).
The recent Overview and Scrutiny report (Nov. 2008) stated that 4,000 fewer
people received any care from BCC in 2007 compared to 2000 how do BCC
plan to address this issue?
Awaiting further information from applicant to clarify this question since the report
and the figure quoted cannot be found on Birmingham City Council’s scrutiny
database available via www.birmingham.gov.uk/democracy nor on the Scrutiny
report of 4 November 2008
The average waiting time for adaptations is currently 58 weeks: what is the
longest waiting time and do BCC have plans to reduce this waiting time to a
more acceptable timescale?
The Housing Directorate reports that waiting times for adaptations can vary
according to customers situations and commitments (eg: a stay in hospital for an
operation, out of country etc) which result in delays in carrying out work which are
beyond the local authority’s control. Birmingham City Council faces enormous
demand for adaptations and prior to service improvements introduced in 2006;
this led to a backlog for non-urgent adaptation requests approximately 3 years
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FOI 2877 / continued
following a referral from Adults and Communities and before allocation for
provision.
Service improvement plans have enabled this backlog to be dealt with and
waiting times are falling year-on-year. A very small number of remaining cases
from the former backlog were completed last year and of these the longest was
213 weeks. Such cases were very much the expectation and imply that there may
have been client circumstances protracting the time scale. As a result of the
continual service improvement process, average timescales continue to fall and
had reduced to 47 weeks in the second half of 2008/9 with the removal of figures
for former backlog cases, average times for new referrals were circa 36 weeks in
the year.
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