Adult Social Care in Bracknell

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Dear Bracknell Forest Borough Council,

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

1. The current average number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of August 2017
2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Domiciliary Care through private domiciliary care providers (Based on 2016)
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 (based on the standard daytime week day rate) charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers
5. When you anticipate retendering for domiciliary care services for Adult Social Care
6. The names of the current Domiciliary Care Providers commissioned in your authority to deliver 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 as well as the number of average hours per week.
10. Is the local authority working with health partners to commission health funded care?
11. The authorities’ current market positioning statement for Adult Social Care

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Wake

Information Compliance-Officer, Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Dear Jamie Wake

Thank you for your request for information, below, which was received by the Council on 26/09/2017 and I will deal with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The FOI Act obliges us to respond to requests promptly, and in any case no later than 20 working days (by 24/10/2017) unless it is necessary to consider the public interest, in which case a full response must be provided within such a time as is reasonable in the circumstances and I will write to you again if this occurs.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future correspondence.

Yours sincerely

Information Compliance Team
Legal Services
Corporate Services Department
Bracknell Forest Council
Tel: 01344 352000
Email: [Bracknell Forest Borough Council request email]
Web: www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Information Compliance-Officer
Legal Services
Resources
Bracknell Forest Council

Tel: 01344 352000
Email: [email address]
Web: www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk

Information Compliance-Officer, Bracknell Forest Borough Council

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Dear Jamie Wake

 

I am writing to confirm that the council has completed the processing of
your request for information which was received on 26 September 2017.

 

Please find below a copy of your request, followed by the Council’s
response.

 

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

 

1. The current average number of weekly hours commissioned to private
domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of August 2017

This is not Data we collect now with the new Community Based Support

 

2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Domiciliary Care
through private domiciliary care providers (Based on 2016)

Gross Expenditure (i.e. excluding client contributions) on homecare in
2016/17 was £7,698k

Net expenditure (i.e. net of client contributions) on homecare in 2016/17
was £6,593k

It should be noted that “domiciliary care” has been interpreted as
homecare and so the figures above exclude supported living or homecare
purchased via a direct payment.

 

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

Framework Agreement commencing 14 Aug 17 to 13 Aug 20 with option to
extend by one year

 

4. The lowest and highest (based on the standard daytime week day rate)
charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority
for Adult Social care commissioned through private domiciliary care
providers

£16.25 lowest  £17.61 highest

 

5. When you anticipate retendering for domiciliary care services for Adult
Social Care

Oct/Nov 19 or Oct/Nov 20 (depending on whether option to extend taken up)

 

6. The names of the current Domiciliary Care Providers commissioned in
your authority to deliver Adult Social Care

Q Care, Care 1st, Watershed, Loving Angels and Oxford House

 

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

Chief Officer: Commissioning and Resources

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01344 352000

 

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

No

 

9. The number of service users currently receiving a direct payment within
your local authority as well as the number of average hours per week. 

338 Direct payments at 31/9/2017 and again, hours is not Data we collect
due to the nature of direct payments

 

10. Is the local authority working with health partners to commission
health funded care? 

Yes, for Personal Health Budgets, as well as jointly commissioning
Intermediate Care which is a joint responsibility

 

11. The authorities’ current market positioning statement for Adult Social
Care

We are in the process of producing a new market positioning statement for
Adult Social Care, attached was published in 2015.

 

 

 

 

You may also find it helpful to refer to our web page
https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/busi...
which contains other helpful information as well.

 

 

 

If you have any queries about this matter please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

 

Please note that your request may itself be the subject of a FOI request
and will be disclosed in that event.

 

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should use the Comments, Compliments and Complaints procedure which
can be found at

http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/comme....

 

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the
ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints
procedure provided by the Council. The Information Commission can be
contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water
Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Sent on behalf of;

Simon Bull

Solicitor

Information Compliance-Officer

Legal Services
Resources
Bracknell Forest Council

 

Tel: 01344 352000
Email: [email address]
Web: www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk

 

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