Adult Social Care in Cambridge City

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Dear Cambridge City Council,

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI)

Please can you answer the following questions regarding Adult Social Care in Cambridge City?

1. The current average number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of August 2020.

2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Domiciliary Care through private domiciliary care providers (Based on 2019 data).

3. The type of agreements held with private domiciliary care providers commissioned to deliver Adult Social Care services such as frameworks, Spot Contracts, Block Contracts etc and their start/end dates.

4. The lowest and highest charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers.

5. The authority’s “Usual Rate” (if this exists) per hour paid to providers of homecare services in Community Settings

6. When do you anticipate re-tendering for domiciliary care services for Adult Social Care?

7. The contact Name, Email address and Contact number of the person responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority.

8. Are commissioned providers required to use real-time electronic monitoring to provide data to the local authority and if so which system?

9. The number of service users currently receiving a direct payment within your local authority.

Yours faithfully,

Vivek Sharma

Cambridge City Council

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Dear Vivek Sharma,

RFI: 7731   (CCC) Adult Social Care in Cambridge City Please ...

Please can you answer the following questions regarding Adult Social Care
in Cambridge City?

1. The current average number of weekly hours commissioned to private
domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of August 2020.

2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Domiciliary Care
through private domiciliary care providers (Based on 2019 data).

3. The type of agreements held with private domiciliary care providers
commissioned to deliver Adult Social Care services such as frameworks,
Spot Contracts, Block Contracts etc and their start/end dates.

4. The lowest and highest charge rates per hour of domiciliary care
charged to the local authority for Adult Social care commissioned through
private domiciliary care providers.

5. The authority’s “Usual Rate” (if this exists) per hour paid to
providers of homecare services in Community Settings

6. When do you anticipate re-tendering for domiciliary care services for
Adult Social Care?

7. The contact Name, Email address and Contact number of the person
responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority.

8. Are commissioned providers required to use real-time electronic
monitoring to provide data to the local authority and if so which system?

9. The number of service users currently receiving a direct payment within
your local authority.

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