Adult Social Care

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Dear Croydon Borough 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

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Dear Freedom of Information,

please send overdue information now.

Yours sincerely,

Linda Burnip

Dear Freedom of Information,
please reply as soon as possible. This is now overdue.

Yours sincerely,

Linda Burnip

Information, Croydon Borough Council

Dear Ms Burnip,

Apologies for the time this is taking to process.

Your request is still receiving attention and we are urgently chasing the answering department for a response.

Once we have this we will immediately send out to you.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Kind regards,
Information Team.

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Dear Ms Burnip

Freedom of Information Request

Please see attached the council's response to your Freedom of Information
request.

Yours sincerely

 

Ahtisham Riaz

FOI Coordinator

Croydon Council

 

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