Changes to day services for adults with a learning disability

Dear Ms Davies

 

Freedom of Information request – Ref 3349

 

Thank you for your request for information about changes to day services
for adults with a learning disability, which we received on 25 January. 
Your request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and we will aim to provide you with a response
by 22 February.

 

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent release of the information you have requested.  If this is the
case you will be advised of any considerations, subsequent decisions and
your rights of appeal. There may also be a fee payable for this
information; this will be considered and you will be informed if a fee is
payable.

 

You will be free to copy, distribute, transmit, adapt or otherwise exploit
any information disclosed to you providing that you do so in accordance
with the conditions which can be found on the council’s website at 
[1]http://www.solihull.gov.uk/about/copyrig....

Advice on the Freedom of Information Act is available from the Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF, telephone: 01625 545 700, website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Joanne Summerill

Information Governance Assistant

Corporate Performance, Policy and Information Division

Tel: 0121 704 6169

Email: [3][email address]

 

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Dear Ms Davies

 

Freedom of Information request – Ref 3349

 

I am writing further to your request for information, which was received
on 25 January.

 

You asked for the following information in relation to day services for
adults with a learning disability in our local authority:

    

     1) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability were known
to social services in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12?

    

     2) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability attended day
activities in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12:

    

     i. 5 days a week or more

     ii. 4 days a week

     iii. 3 days a week

     iv. 2 days a week

     v. 1 day a week

     vi. 0 days a week?

    

     3) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability attended the
following type of day activities in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and  c)
2011/12:

    

     i. day centres

     ii. employment

     iii. education

     iv. voluntary work

     v. other activities?

    

     4) How many a) day centre places and b) equivalent day service places
for adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability were funded by the local
authority in the following financial years:

    

     i. 2009/10

     ii. 2010/11

     iii. 2011/12;

    

     and how many do you expect will be funded in iv. 2012/13?

    

     5) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability who attended
day activities in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12  lived:

    

     i. in the family home

     ii. in their own home

     iii. in supported accommodation

     iv. in residential accommodation?

    

     6) If there have been day service closures within the local
authority, have any alternative services been put in place for those who
attended the day centre; i.e. new learning disability-specific community
activities or transport to/from suitable existing day activities?

    

     7) If there have been day service closures within the local
authority, were consultations held, and if so, what were the consultation
periods? Please provide full details (excluding personal/confidential
data) of all consultation responses and the resulting statement from the
council.

    

     8) Have charges for any of the following services increased since 1st
April 2009:

    

     i. day centre attendance

     ii. transport to and from day activities

     iii. any related activities;

    

     and if so by how much?

 

We have not currently had any day service closures and there have not been
any consultations.  However we are unable to answer any other questions
for the reasons explained below.

 

Finding, retrieving and preparing information takes employees’ time and
consequently we are allowed to consider costs.  The Freedom of Information
Act contains provisions in section 12 to protect public authorities from
having to respond to requests that are highly time consuming.  This is on
the basis that if authorities were required to spend an unlimited time on
these requests then the provision of their day to day services would
suffer.

 

In effect this means that there is a finite amount of time that an
authority is required to spend locating and retrieving information for any
given request. This is set out in regulations and for authorities such as
the council it equates to 18 hours in any 60 day period.  The relevant
regulations are ‘The Freedom of Information and Data Protection
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004’.

 

After considering your request about learning disability clients and day
services, it would be appear to take a considerable amount of time as
there is a requirement to collect data over three consecutive years.  The
total time would be approximately 5 days.  It may be possible to complete
numbers 1, 2, and 8 within 18 hours.  Numbers 3, 4, and 5 would require
more time as the data would need to be extracted from a number of areas,
probably the same amount again.  Therefore we are refusing to search for
the information and are relying upon section 12(1) of the Act.

 

However, if you were able to reduce your request in scope to bring the
total search time to below 18 hours it may be possible to supply some
information that may be of interest to you, for example resubmitting
questions 1, 2 and 8.

 

You will be free to copy, distribute, transmit, adapt or otherwise exploit
any information disclosed to you providing that you do so in accordance
with the conditions which can be found on the council’s website
[1]http://www.solihull.gov.uk/about/copyrig....

 

I hope this information is of interest and assistance.  If however you are
dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to request a
review of our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been
handled you should write to the Corporate Information Governance Manager,
PO Box 18, Council House, Solihull, West Midlands B91 9QS or email
[2][Solihull Borough Council request email].

 

Your request for an internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response.  Any requests received
after this time will be considered at the discretion of the Corporate
Information Governance Manager.

 

If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your
request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right
of appeal to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision. 
Generally, the ICO will not make a decision until you have exhausted the
complaints procedure provided by the Council.  The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone: 01625 545 700, website:
[3]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

 

Should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact
me.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Joanne Summerill

Information Governance Assistant

Corporate Performance, Policy and Information Division

Tel: 0121 704 6169

Email: [4][email address]

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Dear Ms Davies

 

Freedom of Information request – Ref 3408

 

Thank you for your request for revised information about day services for
adults with a learning disability, which we received on 16 February.  Your
request is being considered under the terms of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (FOIA) and we will aim to provide you with a response by 15
March.

 

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent release of the information you have requested.  If this is the
case you will be advised of any considerations, subsequent decisions and
your rights of appeal. There may also be a fee payable for this
information; this will be considered and you will be informed if a fee is
payable.

 

You will be free to copy, distribute, transmit, adapt or otherwise exploit
any information disclosed to you providing that you do so in accordance
with the conditions which can be found on the council’s website at 
[1]http://www.solihull.gov.uk/about/copyrig....

Advice on the Freedom of Information Act is available from the Information
Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF, telephone: 01625 545 700, website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Joanne Summerill

Information Governance Assistant

Corporate Performance, Policy and Information Division

Tel: 0121 704 6169

Email: [3][email address]

 

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Dear Ms Davies

 

Freedom of Information request – Ref 3408

 

I am writing further to your revised request for information, which was
received on 16 February. 

 

You asked the following questions.

 

·         How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability were known
to social services in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12? 

         

·         How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability  attended
day  activities in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12:  

     

          i. 5 days a week or more

    

          ii. 4 days a week

    

          iii. 3 days a week

    

          iv. 2 days a week

    

          v. 1 day a week

    

          vi. 0 days a week?

 

·         Have charges for any of the following services increased  since
1st  April 2009: 

         

          i. day centre attendance

    

          ii. transport to and from day activities

    

          iii. any related activities;

 

         and if so by how much?

 

Please see the table below for the number of adults with learning
disabilities known and the number attending day care.

 

Clients Attending Day Care
Known Total Clients known
clients clients but not
with a in receiving day
Primary 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days receipt care in the
Client of day year
Group of care
LD
2009-10 498 9 21 20 20 155 225 273
2010-11 516 11 37 26 30 154 258 258
2011-12 563 8 33 22 34 116 213 350

 

The fees are below.

 

i.              day centre attendance 

Yes - New Fees and Charges were implemented from 1/10/11-subject to
financial assessment-differential charges for older people centres,
Centres for people with a learning disability and Centre for people with a
physical disability--£58.90, £54, £114.50 respectively.

 

ii.             transport to and from day activities-

No charge for council provided transport from 1/10/11

 

iii.            any related activities;

Meal Charges from 1/10/11-£5 per day

 

You will be free to copy, distribute, transmit, adapt or otherwise exploit
any information disclosed to you providing that you do so in accordance
with the conditions which can be found on the council’s website
[1]http://www.solihull.gov.uk/about/copyrig....

 

I hope this information is of interest and assistance.  If however you are
dissatisfied with the response you have received and wish to request a
review of our decision or make a complaint about how your request has been
handled you should write to the Corporate Information Governance Manager,
PO Box 18, Council House, Solihull, West Midlands B91 9QS or email
[2][Solihull Borough Council request email].

 

Your request for an internal review should be submitted to us within 40
working days of receipt by you of this response.  Any requests received
after this time will be considered at the discretion of the Corporate
Information Governance Manager.

 

If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your
request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right
of appeal to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision. 
Generally, the ICO will not make a decision until you have exhausted the
complaints procedure provided by the Council.  The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire, SK9 5AF, telephone: 01625 545 700, website:
[3]http://www.ico.gov.uk.

 

Should you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact
me.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Joanne Summerill

Information Governance Assistant

Corporate Performance, Policy and Information Division

Tel: 0121 704 6169

Email: [4][email address]

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