Short breaks/respite care provision

Dear Ms Higgins

Request for Information

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Respite Care Provision

I refer to your request for information of 27 November 2009 and subsequent
request for review of 15 February 2010 as a result of not receiving a
response to your original request. Please accept my sincere apologies for
the lack of response to your request. I have now received the requested
information from the appropriate department which is detailed below:

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.

2008-09 Information not known

2009-10 £9,000

2010-11 £18,000

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 All

2009-10 All

2010-11 Intends to spend all allocated funds

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.

The amount of money allocated from existing GAE monies (based on actual
expenditure on respite) is as follows:-

2007-08 £563,669

2008-09 £684,226

2009-10 £648,587

2010-11 £676,007 allocated

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:-

Care Homes for Older People & Care Homes for Other Adults

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.

On the provision of respite beds.

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?

2008-09 2713 Outreach Hours/142 residential respite

2009-10 2511 Outreach Hours/144 residential respite

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.

All of the above were provided for children with special needs.

Please also tell me how many hours and nights you intend to provide in
2010-11.

The actual volume has not been defined but it is likely to be on par with
the current year.

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.

2007-08 £146,661

2008-09 £156,458

2009-10 £162,409

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.

2010-11 £153,301 (budgeted spend)

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.

Please see attached:

<<FOI1317 - Kate Higgins, Respite care.xls>> <<FOI1317 - Kate Higgins
RESPITE PANEL JAN 2010.doc>>

Again I apologise for the delay in providing the requested information and
I trust that this information meets your needs. Please do not hesitate in
contacting me if I can be of further assistant. 

Should you still remain dissatisfied after completion of the review
process you may apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner, 10 Kinburn
Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, K16  9BS, to establish
whether your request for information has been processed in accordance with
Part 1 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Yours sincerely

Lena Morrison

FOI & Equalities Officer

T: 01851 709222

E: [email address]

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