Adult Social Care in Devon

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Dear Devon County Council,

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

1. The Current number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of April 2015

2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Social Care through private domiciliary care providers

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 range of charge rates (lowest and highest) charged to the local authority for Adult Social Services commissioned through private domiciliary care providers

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

6. The name of the current Domiciliary Care Providers commissioned in your authority delivering 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

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

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Wake

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Dear Mr Wake

I am in receipt of your request for information under Freedom of Information Act 2000 received on 26th May 2015 .  Your request has been passed to the Information Governance team to deal with in accordance with the Council’s Environmental Information Regulations and Freedom of Information Request Handling Policy.

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The Council will endeavour to provide you with a response to your request as soon as possible but incidentally by no later than 11th June 2015.

Yours sincerely

Simon Osborne
Information Governance Officer

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Dear Mr Wake

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I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Yours sincerely

Simon Osborne

Information Governance Officer

Devon County Council
Customer Relations and Information Governance Team
Room 120
County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter   EX2 4QD
Tel: 01392 383000

 

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