Personal Budgets / Social Services - Borough statistics request

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am contacting you on behalf of a private health care organisation
currently formulating an online service targeting individuals and
carers of individuals who receive Personal Budgets for care
products and services. The aim is to provide a valuable service to
public authorities and service users alike, which will fall in line
with the Government’s ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ white paper.

For this purpose I need to know the following and would be grateful
if you could reply with that info or details of who I should
contact if you are not the right department.

1. How many individuals in total receive a Personal Budget within
the boroughs under your remit?

2. What percentage of these individuals are on the Personalisation
programme? And is your target 33%?

3. How many social workers are there working in adult care within
the boroughs covered under your remit?

4. How many allocated cases are there in adult care?

5. How many of these are working with disabled people under 60?

6. How many unallocated cases are there in adult care?

7. How many adults are you providing some sort of community care
service to in total?

8. How many ‘held’ cases are there in adult care.

9. What is the average time between referral for a service and
assessment of needs?

10. What is the average time between referral and provision of the
necessary service?

11. What is your total adult care budget for 2009-2010?

12. What proportion of this is spent providing care in the
community through Direct Payments or Individual Budgets?

13. What proportion of this is spent on residential care provision?

14. What is the average length of time for provision of aids?

15. What is the average personal budget per borough?

Yours faithfully,
Andrew Greenhalgh

Andrew Greenhalgh
Sales Development Manager
BMCB
51 Stourbridge Rd
Halesowen
West Midlands, B63 3TX
Tel: +44 (0) 121 585 5020
Fax: +44 (0) 121 550 8496
Email: [email address]