adult social care

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Thank you for your request for information received on 28/06/2009. We are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 28/07/2009.

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How many adults are you providing some sort of community care service to in total? 4,451 as at 31/06/2009.

How many allocated cases are there in adult care? 4,248 as at 02/07/2009.

How many unallocated cases are there in adult care? 788 as at 02/07/2009.

How many ‘held’ cases are there in adult care. We are unsure as to what is meant by 'held'.

What is the average time between referral for a service and assessment of needs 24.6 days as at 02/07/2009, for all service users aged 18+.

What is the average time between referral and provision of the necessary service. As no date period has been provided, we will provide a 2008/2009 figure. by "average time" we assume number of days is required, not hours and minutes as no age range has been specified, we will provide total for all 18+

What is the average length of time for provision of adaptations. 5.7 days for 01/04/2008 to 31/03/2009 - minor adaptations, 19.7 days for 01/04/2008 to 31/03/2009 - major adaptations.

The total adult care expenditure budget for 2009/10 is currently £124.736m or £85.176m after income.

The total current budget for direct payments and individual budgets is £4,399,800 (3.53%).

The total current budget for residential care is £19,455,500 plus an additional £7,618,800 for nursing care totalling £27,074,300 (21.71%).

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Team and the Corporate Complaints Manager, respectively.

Regards

Information Governance Team
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Information Governance- ICT

Newham Dockside

1000 Dockside Road

London

E16 2QU

Tel: - 0208-430-2000 Email:- [1][Newham Borough Council request email]
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policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
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may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.

You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 0208 430 4444 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
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We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
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that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
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Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.

The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
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