Adult Social Care
Dear Telford and Wrekin Council,
Please answer as many questions as possible starting from 1 onwards within time and money constraints.
1. How many adults are you providing social care to now compared with 2010?
2. How many adults receive a Direct Payment to fund their social care?
3. Are there any restrictions on the number of hours adult social care funding you will fund or are there any plans to introduce a limit?
4. What are the DP rates that you pay to adults who directly employ PAs - what are the hourly rates for;
Weekday daytime rates
Weekday evening rates
Weekend daytime rates
Weekend evening rates
5. What rates do you pay to adults, who directly employ their own PAs for Overnight Rates -both for sleeping and waking nights and what hours does this payment cover?
6. What Bank Holiday Rates do you pay to adults, who directly employ their own PAs?
7. Are these standard rates that all DP users receive or does the amount paid vary depending on the complexity of need?
8. When were the rates in questions 4, 5 and 6, first set at their current rates?
9. Do you anticipate these rates will be increased, and what to, from April 2017?
10. What is the highest weekly or annual DP and lowest weekly DP you make to fund adult social care?
11. What additional employer costs are funded through these rates eg.
National insurance employer contributions
Statutory paid holidays
Payroll charges,
Independent living insurance,
Advertising,
National Minimum Wage increase from April 2016.
Redundancy payments,
Pensions.
Training.
Contingency funding
12. If pensions are not fully funded using DP rates, how will they be funded?
Yours faithfully,
Linda Burnip
Dear Ms Burnip
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 Acknowledgement -TWC-44123
Thank you for your request for information received by us on 28 November
2016 asking for the following:
1. How many adults are you providing social care to now compared with
2010?
2. How many adults receive a Direct Payment to fund their social care?
3. Are there any restrictions on the number of hours adult social care
funding you will fund or are there any plans to introduce a limit?
4. What are the DP rates that you pay to adults who directly employ PAs -
what are the hourly rates for;
Weekday daytime rates
Weekday evening rates
Weekend daytime rates
Weekend evening rates
5. What rates do you pay to adults, who directly employ their own PAs for
Overnight Rates -both for sleeping and waking nights and what hours does
this payment cover?
6. What Bank Holiday Rates do you pay to adults, who directly employ their
own PAs?
7. Are these standard rates that all DP users receive or does the amount
paid vary depending on the complexity of need?
8. When were the rates in questions 4, 5 and 6, first set at their current
rates?
9. Do you anticipate these rates will be increased, and what to, from
April 2017?
10. What is the highest weekly or annual DP and lowest weekly DP you make
to fund adult social care?
11. What additional employer costs are funded through these rates eg.
National insurance employer contributions Statutory paid holidays Payroll
charges, Independent living insurance, Advertising, National Minimum Wage
increase from April 2016.
Redundancy payments,
Pensions.
Training.
Contingency funding
12. If pensions are not fully funded using DP rates, how will they be
funded?
The Freedom of Information Act requires us to provide this information to
you within 20 working days of receiving your request. Therefore we will
aim to respond to you by the 28 December 2016
However, if the information you request is subject to an exemption which
prevents us from releasing it, as defined by the Act, we will issue you
with a Refusal Notice together with your rights of appeal.
There are circumstances where a fee may be payable by you to cover
administration costs (e.g. printing, copying, postage and packaging). If
this applies to your request we will issue you with a ‘Fees Notice’
requesting payment. The fee must be paid before the information requested
is processed and released. The 20 working day time limit for responding
to your request will be suspended until payment is received.
In the meantime, if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact
us, quoting the above reference number.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Daffern
Information Governance
Dear Ms Burnip
Freedom of information request Reference TWC-44123
Please find attached your response
Kind Regards
Information Governance
Audit, Information Governance and Insurance Services
Finance, Audit & Information Governance
Telford & Wrekin Council
Telford & Wrekin Council, Audit & Information Governance, Darby House,
Lawn Central, Town Centre, Telford, TF3 4JA
e-mail: [Telford and Wrekin Council request email]
We work to defend the right to FOI for everyone
Help us protect your right to hold public authorities to account. Donate and support our work.
Donate Now