Short breaks/respite care provision

Dear Sir or Madam,

1. 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.

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.

2. 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.

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.

3. 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.
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.

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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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.

If you need clarification in relation to these requests please let
me know.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)