Commissioning for adults and Children's Services
Dear Ceredigion Council,
would like to find out the follow information from your adults
and children's Commissioners.
Children’s
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for commissioning services
within Children’s social care?
2. Do you currently use an IT system to support your strategic
commissioning and contract management? If yes to either please name
the system(s) and details of costs?
3. How many providers do you contract with for Children’s services
and are they internal/external?
4. Do you have a performance management framework to monitor the
performance of providers?
Adults
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for commissioning services
within Adult’s social care?
2. Do you currently use an IT system to support your strategic
commissioning and contract management? If yes to either please name
the system(s) and details of costs?
3. How many providers do you contract with for Adult’s services and
are they internal/external?
4. Do you have a performance management framework to monitor the
performance of providers?
5. Do you currently use micro procurement (also known as micro
commissioning or mini tendering) to arrange services?
6. Do you use brokerage or commissioning teams or do social
workers/care managers contact providers direct?
Yours faithfully,
Barry Scott
Diolch am eich neges e-bost – bydd yn derbyn sylw’r gwasanaeth priodol yn
ei dro.
Thank you for your e-mail communication which will receive attention from
the appropriate service in due course.
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Ymwadiad:
Er y cymerir pob gofal posib i sicrhau cywirdeb unrhyw wybodaeth a chyngor
a roddir yn yr ohebiaeth hon, ni dderbynnir atebolrwydd am unrhyw
golledion a all godi o unrhyw gamgymeriadau sy'n gynwysedig ac fe'ch
atgoffir o'r angen i chi ofyn am gyngor proffesiynol eich hun.
Bwriedir y neges ebost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau iddi, at sylw'r person(au)
y'i danfonwyd atynt yn unig. Os nad chi yw'r derbynnydd y cyfeiriwyd y
neges hon ato ef neu hi, neu'r person sydd gyfrifol am drosglwyddo'r neges
hon iddo ef neu hi, mi ddylech hysbysu'r anfonwr ar eich union. Oni bai
mai chi yw'r person neu gynrychiolydd y person y cyfeiriwyd y neges hon at
ef neu hi nid ydych wedi eich awdurdodi i, ac ni ddylech chi, ddarllen,
copio, dosbarthu, defnyddio na chadw'r neges hon nac unrhyw gyfran ohoni.
O dan y Ddeddf Amddiffyn Data 1998 a Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 2000 gellir
datgelu cynnwys y negest ebost hon.
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Dear Mr Scott,
Many thanks for your e-mail dated today.
The content of your e-mail forms a request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and as such Ceredigion County Council has a timeframe
of 20 working days in which to respond, which is on or before 23^rd
December 2013.
I will therefore be in contact with you shortly.
Kind regards
Nerris.
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Ymwadiad:
Er y cymerir pob gofal posib i sicrhau cywirdeb unrhyw wybodaeth a chyngor
a roddir yn yr ohebiaeth hon, ni dderbynnir atebolrwydd am unrhyw
golledion a all godi o unrhyw gamgymeriadau sy'n gynwysedig ac fe'ch
atgoffir o'r angen i chi ofyn am gyngor proffesiynol eich hun.
Bwriedir y neges ebost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau iddi, at sylw'r person(au)
y'i danfonwyd atynt yn unig. Os nad chi yw'r derbynnydd y cyfeiriwyd y
neges hon ato ef neu hi, neu'r person sydd gyfrifol am drosglwyddo'r neges
hon iddo ef neu hi, mi ddylech hysbysu'r anfonwr ar eich union. Oni bai
mai chi yw'r person neu gynrychiolydd y person y cyfeiriwyd y neges hon at
ef neu hi nid ydych wedi eich awdurdodi i, ac ni ddylech chi, ddarllen,
copio, dosbarthu, defnyddio na chadw'r neges hon nac unrhyw gyfran ohoni.
O dan y Ddeddf Amddiffyn Data 1998 a Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 2000 gellir
datgelu cynnwys y negest ebost hon.
Disclaimer:
While reasonable care is taken to ensure the correctness of any
information and advice given in this correspondence no liability is
accepted for losses arising from any errors contained in it and you are
reminded of the need to obtain your own professional advice.
The information in this email and any attachments is intended solely for
the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the
intended recipient, or person responsible for delivering this information
to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately. Unless
you are the intended recipient or his/her representative you are not
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Dear Mr Scott,
I write further to your Freedom of Information request and I can now
furnish you with the relevant information. Please see below.
Children
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for commissioning services within
Children’s social care?
Buddug Ward, Head of Families & Children’s Services
Allan Jones, Head of Strategic Commissioning (Care), Assurance and Housing
Services.
2. Do you currently use an IT system to support your strategic
commissioning and contract
management? If yes to either please name the system(s) and details of
costs?
We record the services provided to individual service users on the main
Electronic Health & Social Care System and electronic reports are
generated to assist in managing the future needs of service users. There
is currently no contract management software used.” However, we do
commission higher cost packages via an all wales collaborative who use
‘Children’s Commissioning Support Resource’
3. How many providers do you contract with for Children’s services and
are they internal/external?
As mentioned above commissioned via a Framework
4. Do you have a performance management framework to monitor the
performance of providers?
Currently under development
Adults
1. Who is the main contact/contacts for commissioning services within
Adult’s social care?
Sue Darnbrook, Head of Adult Social Care Services
2. Do you currently use an IT system to support your strategic
commissioning and contract
management? If yes to either please name the system(s) and details of
costs?
We record the services provided to individual service users on the main
Electronic Health & Social Care System and electronic reports are
generated to assist in managing the future needs of service users. There
is currently no contract management software used.” Costs N/A
3. How many providers do you contract with for Adult’s services and are
they internal/external?
Our main care home contracts are 169 external care homes and 7 internal or
‘inhouse’ care homes and 5 Domiciliary Care agencies
4. Do you have a performance management framework to monitor the
performance of providers?
Currently being developed
5. Do you currently use micro procurement (also known as micro
commissioning or mini tendering) to
arrange services?
We do for Domicilliary Care packages
6. Do you use brokerage or commissioning teams or do social
workers/care managers contact providers
direct?
We commission this support from Rowan who assist individuals with Direct
Payments
I hope that the above information is satisfactory to you. If I can assist
further please let me know.
Many thanks and kind regards
Nerris.
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Ymwadiad:
Er y cymerir pob gofal posib i sicrhau cywirdeb unrhyw wybodaeth a chyngor
a roddir yn yr ohebiaeth hon, ni dderbynnir atebolrwydd am unrhyw
golledion a all godi o unrhyw gamgymeriadau sy'n gynwysedig ac fe'ch
atgoffir o'r angen i chi ofyn am gyngor proffesiynol eich hun.
Bwriedir y neges ebost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau iddi, at sylw'r person(au)
y'i danfonwyd atynt yn unig. Os nad chi yw'r derbynnydd y cyfeiriwyd y
neges hon ato ef neu hi, neu'r person sydd gyfrifol am drosglwyddo'r neges
hon iddo ef neu hi, mi ddylech hysbysu'r anfonwr ar eich union. Oni bai
mai chi yw'r person neu gynrychiolydd y person y cyfeiriwyd y neges hon at
ef neu hi nid ydych wedi eich awdurdodi i, ac ni ddylech chi, ddarllen,
copio, dosbarthu, defnyddio na chadw'r neges hon nac unrhyw gyfran ohoni.
O dan y Ddeddf Amddiffyn Data 1998 a Deddf Rhyddid Gwybodaeth 2000 gellir
datgelu cynnwys y negest ebost hon.
Disclaimer:
While reasonable care is taken to ensure the correctness of any
information and advice given in this correspondence no liability is
accepted for losses arising from any errors contained in it and you are
reminded of the need to obtain your own professional advice.
The information in this email and any attachments is intended solely for
the attention and use of the named addressee(s). If you are not the
intended recipient, or person responsible for delivering this information
to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately. Unless
you are the intended recipient or his/her representative you are not
authorised to, and must not, read, copy, distribute, use or retain this
message or any part of it.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000
the contents of this email may be disclosed.
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