Please ask for:
Lynn Wyeth
Direct Line:
0116 252 7605
E-mail:
[email address]
Fax:
0116 252 7616
Our Ref:
FOI 0819
Date:
27 January 2012
Mr D Paulley [FOI #97913 email]
Dear Mr Paulley
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Your request for information has now been considered and the Council’s
response to your questions is shown below.
You asked:
1)Please can you tell me what proportion of your social care service
users are on direct payments, and what proportion are on individualised
budgets, and how this has changed over the last 5 years.
Please see table called “Service User take up of Direct Payments and Personal
Budgets” attached as Appendix A.
2)Please can you tell me if you are aware of any direct payments or
individualised budgets recipients are in long term residential care. (I know
direct payments can't be used for paying for long term residential care, but
can be used for residents to pay for 121, annual holiday etc.)
There are 2 individuals in residential care who are in receipt of direct payments.
People in residential care are not currently offered personal budgets for the
additional support that they may receive outside of the care home. (However,
please note that one of the 2 identified service users above is
in receipt of a
personal budget. This is because they are in a residential care home for
reasons other than to meet their social care needs. Their social care needs are
therefore being met in the community through a personal budget).
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sale, or redistribution may be a breach of copyright under the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended unless you obtain the copyright
holder's prior permission.
Not all the information that is supplied which is covered by copyright will be the
Council's copyright, for example it may be the copyright of a government
department or another Council. You should seek either the Council’s consent or

their consent as appropriate. The Council is willing to advise you of any such
potential issues on request. In order to make a request to re-use the
information please contact the Information Governance Manager using the
details below.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please write to:
Information Governance Manager Information and Support Leicester City Council
FREEPOST (LE985/33) New Walk Centre LEICESTER LE1 6ZG e-mail:
[Leicester City Council request email] Your request for internal review should be submitted to the above address within
40 (forty) working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request
received after this time will only be considered at the Council’s absolute
discretion.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Please be aware that the Information Commissioner does not normally consider
appeals or complaints until the internal appeals and complaints processes of the
public authority which is answering the request have been exhausted. You are
therefore advised to complain or appeal to Information Governance Manager
before contacting the Commissioner.
Yours sincerely
Lynn Wyeth
Information Governance Manager