Adult Social Care Spending England

Dear Dan

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Diane​​   Lambert
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Horsham District Council, Parkside, Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1RL
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From: Dan <[FOI #902427 email]>
Sent: 26 September 2022 15:29
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Adult Social Care Spending
England

Dear Horsham District Council,

For the past seven financial years:

1. How much has the council spent on Adult Social Care (“ASC”) as a whole?

2. How much of the total ASC budget has been paid out as direct payments?
What is the total number of hours that are being commissioned?

3. How much does the council spend on care providers directly commissioned
by the local authority? Of this, how much is for domiciliary care support?
What is the total number of hours that are being commissioned both in
total and just for domiciliary care/support?

4. How much does the council spend on the administration of adult social
care? Please include staffing costs e.g. management, support services,
finance, secretaries, social workers or similar. It would be helpful if
you could break this down by seniority and then include the number of
employees in each category (i.e. social workers = X number of employees,
costs X per annum).

5. Please indicate the total number of employees employed by ASC.

6. How many of your local authority’s customers are in receipt of a direct
payment for Care Act services?

7. How many of your local authority’s customers are in receipt of support
directly commissioned by the local authority? We are only referring to
domiciliary care support.

8. As part of your duties under the Care Act, do you signpost Direct
Payment users to support services such as payroll providers? |f so, which
providers are signposted to?

9. Can you provide the names of the payroll providers used by your direct
payment recipients, and how many direct payment recipient use each
provider?

10. Does the council pay any payroll providers directly and if so, how
much?

11. Please indicate the number of direct payment recipients that use a)
supported bank account, b) pre-paid and c) traditional payment into
client’s bank account (ie. separate account client uses only for their
direct payment)?

Please ensure figures are given in a consistent format (i.e. stick to the
financial year), I would like to receive the quantitative data requested
(costs, number of hours, number of people etc) In accordance with ICO
guidance on data sets, in a re-usable Excel format.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel

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