Please tell me how much funding your local authority received in 2008-09 and in 2009-10 from the Scottish Government towards m

Please tell me 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 you're your local authority will receive in 2010-11 towards meeting this policy.

East Lothian Council is not aware of any funding specifically for respite care/short breaks from the Scottish Government in 2008/2009. In 2009/10, however, the local authority received £26,000. This is scheduled to increase to £53,000 in 2010/11.

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 whole additional amount has been added to the existing budget for respite care/short breaks. We have no information concerning next year's intended spend as the 2010-11 budget is not yet set.

Please tell me 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.

Adult Social Care

2007/08 - £562K

2008/09 - £658K

2009/10 - £441K has been spent to the end of November 2009

Children's Services

2007/08 - £399K

2008/09 - £441K

2009/10 - The budget for respite care/short breaks within Children's Services is circa £467K. There is another £30K, which comes from Childcare Strategy. This brings the total to £497K.

As mentioned previously the 2010/11 budget is currently being discussed therefore no information is currently available.

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 see above.

Please tell me to 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.

The funding is split between Children's Services and Adult Social Care.

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.

As mentioned previously, we have no information concerning next year's intended allocation as the 2010-11 budget has not yet been set.

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.

The additional amount within Children's Services has been added to the existing budget for respite care/short breaks.

The breakdown for Adult Social Care Services is shown below:

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
User Group	£'000	£'000	£'000
Elderly Purchased	146	206	92
Mental Health Purchased	45	55	54
Learning Dis Purchased	142	128	72
Addicts Purchased	25	19	0
Physical Dis Purchased	55	83	48
Vulnerable Purchased	9	3	6
Elderly Provided	111	146	148
Adult Carers	29	19	20
Total Adult Social Care	562	659	441

Please tell me, In relation to your local authority's 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? 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.

2007/08

Number of short break overnights - 870

Number of day-care/outreach hours - 22,819.5 hours

2008/09

Number of short break overnights - 826

Number of day-care/outreach hours - 17,424.75 hours

We calculate figures at the end of the financial year; therefore the 2009/10 figures are not currently available. We will be happy to forward these on application after March 2010.

As the budget for 2010/11 has not been set, we cannot provide any projections on budget or a target for hours in this period.

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.

Please see 2 above

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.

This information is available via our website and, as such, is exempt under Section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information Otherwise Accessible. A link to the relevant pages of the website has been provided to assist you: http://cmis.eastlothian.gov.uk/CMISWebPublic/CommitteeSelection.aspx

East Lothian Council

Ref: 2009/669