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Ms Kate Higgins

(fSDC liaison project) December 18^th 2009

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Request for Information Charges

FOI Request ID: 101002293752

I write in response to your request (dated 28/11/09), in which you asked:

How much funding your local authority received in 2008-09 and in 2009-10 from the Scottish Government towards meeting its policy of providing an additional 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks across Scotland by 2011.

Please tell me how (much) your local authority will receive in 2010-11 towards meeting this policy.

Please tell me how much of that allocation your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend on providing additional hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

The funding we have received is as follows: £186,000 in 2008/09, £186,000 for 2009/10 and £217,000 for 2010/11. In weeks our share is 300 weeks per annum.

Respite	Older People	Physical Disability	Learning Disability	Mental Health
2007/08 Purchased	1436 nights 92 People	36 people	1966 nights 54 people	24 People
Budget	£166,838	£99,250	£256,529	£27,000
2007/08 Provided	1596 nights 100 people	N/A	1050 nights 50 people	N/A
Budget	£280,000	N/A	£230,000	N/A
2007/08 Delivered in the home	1014 hours per month 85 people	* See note below	* See note below	* See note below
Budget	£167,000	N/A	N/A	N/A
2008/09 Purchased	1088 nights 95 people	36 people	1966 nights 59 people	22 people
Budget	£139,192	£96,801	£248,999	£46,641
2008/09 Provided	1690 nights 176 people	N/A	1050 nights 47 people	N/A
Budget	£291,000	N/A	£277,000	N/A
2008/09 Delivered in the home	1098 hours per month 77 people	* See note below	* See note below	* See note below
Budget	£171,000	N/A	N/A	N/A

The performance figures for 2009/10 are the year's targets as it is too early to collate these but the budgets are the actual figures given.

Respite	Older People	Physical Disability	Learning Disability	Mental Health
2009/10 Purchased	2184 nights	250 nights 35 placements	2000 nights	189 nights
Budget	£126,456	£120,000	£274,574	£64,000
2009/10 Provided	2184 nights	Being developed	60 people	N/A
Budget	£303,000	£140,000	£306,000	N/A
2009/10 Delivered in the home	1050 hours per month 90 people	* See note below	* See note below	* See note below
Budget	£176,000	£20,800	£85,400	£11,780

* NB Respite delivered in the home - there were 150.65 additional weeks of respite provided in 2007/08 (based on the agreed COSLA / Scottish Government standard method for converting respite nights and hours into weeks)

How much funding your local authority allocated from within existing GAE monies for the purpose of providing hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2007 08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 and how much it intends to allocate from within existing GAE monies in 2010-11. Please tell me how much your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend from within existing GAE monies for the purpose of providing hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2007-08,
2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Please refer to the template above. Funding for future years is still subject to the decision making processes.

Which budget head and purpose your local authority allocated the additional monies it received from the Scottish Government towards meeting the policy of providing 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks by 2011 in 2008-09 and 2009-10. Please also tell me to which budget head and purpose your local authority intends to allocate its share of the additional funding in 2010-11. Please tell me how the allocations to each budget head and purpose were actually spent and are being spent in 2008-09 and 2009-10.

Please refer to the template above. Funding for future years is still subject to the decision making processes.

In relation to your local authorities commitment to achieving an additional 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks provision across Scotland by 2011, how many of these hours and nights have been and are being provided for disabled children and young people in 2008-09 and in 2009-10?

April to March

2008/2009

2009/2010

Children with Disability -

Daytime Respite (Hours)

16,334

£217,000

17,173

£245,000

Children with Disability - Overnight Respite (nights)

930

1010

Please also tell me how many hours and nights of respite care/short breaks were provided by your local authority for disabled children and young people in 2007-08. Please also tell me how many hours and nights you intend to provide in 2010-11.

Both of the above are set to increase over 2010/2011

Please tell me how much money has been and is being spent on providing respite care/short breaks for disabled children and young people in your area in 2007-08, 2008-09 and in 2009-10.

Please also tell me what you intend to spend on respite care/short breaks for disabled children and young people in your local authority in 2010-11 (duplicated question).

In responding to these requests, please provide supporting information, including information contained within budgets and related papers, council and committee papers and minutes, correspondence between officers or between officers and third parties, meeting papers and any other relevant papers and documents.

I do hope that this provides the information you were seeking.

Yours sincerely

Bob Stead

Senior Research Officer

Social Policy Information Team

West Lothian Council

Eagle Brae, Ladywell,

Livingston EH54 6AG

Tel: 01506 775724

Fax: 01506 775754

If you have any complaint about the council's handling of your request for information, you can ask the council to review its actions and decisions in relation to this response by writing to Gordon Blair, Chief Legal Officer, West Lothian Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, West Lothian

EH54 6FF (01506 281695; e-mail: [email address].) including a correspondence address and a description of the original request and the reason why you are dissatisfied, within 40 working days of the date of this letter (Section 47 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002).

You may, within a further six months, if you are dissatisfied with the outcome or with the council's failure to review its actions and decisions in relation to this response, apply in writing to the Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS (01334 464610; e-mail [email address]) requesting his decision in this matter (Section 47 (1) Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

West Lothian Council Social Policy Service

West Lothian Civic Centre

Howden South Road

Livingston

West Lothian EH54 6FF

Contact: Bob Stead

Email: [email address]

Tel: 01506 775724