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Dear Warwickshire County 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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able to action your request for information concerning Adult Social Care
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From: Dan <[FOI #902587 email]>
Sent: 26 September 2022 15:33
To: Info Rights <[Warwickshire County Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Adult Social Care Spending
England
 
Dear Warwickshire County 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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Dear Info Rights,

My full name is Daniel Reed

Yours sincerely,

Dan

Warwickshire County Council

 
Information request
Our reference: 8324248

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Dear Daniel Reed
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 5 October
2022. We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000
 
Under our normal statutory requirements we are required to provide you
with a response within 20 working days of the receipt of your request.
Therefore we aim to send a response by 2 November 2022. 
 

In some case, a fee may be payable. If we decide a fee is payable, we will
send you a fee notice and we will require you to pay the fee before
proceeding with your request.

 
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and if any exemptions apply to some or all of the information then we
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Bruce Green
Information Rights Officer

Information Management Team
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Tel: 01926 412211

 

 

 

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Warwickshire County Council

 
Information request
Our reference: 8324248

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Dear Mr Reed,
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Your request for information, received on 4 October 2022  and concerning
Adult Social Care spending, is currently being considered by Warwickshire
County Council. However I am writing to advise that there will be a short
delay in providing you with our response to your request.

I apologise for this delay and for any inconvenience caused. I will write
to you as soon as possible with the Council's response to your request.

If you have any queries or should you wish to make a complaint about the
manner in which your request is being dealt with then please do not
hesitate to contact me at the above address in the first instance. Any
complaints will be dealt with under the Council's internal review
procedure.

Further information about your rights under the Freedom of Information
Act, is available from the Information Commissioner's Office (0303 123
1113) or www.ico.org.uk and on the County Council's website.

 

Yours sincerely

 
 
Jonathan Sheward
Information Rights Officer
Information Management
Warwickshire County Council
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Tel: 01926 413716
Email: [1][email address]
 
 
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Dear Mr Reed,
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 4 October 2022. Our
response to your request is now attached to this email.
 
Please accept our apologies for the delay in making our response and for
any inconvenience that this may have caused. However, I hope that the
information now being provided is still of help and interest to you at
this time.
 

Yours sincerely

Jonathan Sheward
Information Rights Officer
Information Management
Warwickshire County Council
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Tel: 01926 413716
Email: [1][email address
 
 
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Dear Mr Reed,
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Further to our response, of 10 November 2022, some additional information
has now been identified in answer to question 4 of your request under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 as follows:
 
You asked us:
 
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).
 
The original information that we provided in answer to this is as
contained on the spreadsheet "WCC FOI Ref 8324248 - ASC Spending -
Response doc" 
 
However, it has been identified that the information already provided does
not include for staff employed within the Customer Service Centre who
process some ASC referrals. As part of a different department, this team
are financed out of a separate budget than those employed by the ASC team
itself.
 
Information is held and available for the financial years 2019/2020 to
date for the Customer Service Centre involved ins ASC referral duties to
date as below:
 

2019/2020 - £879,426

Staffing costs:  £875,616

Administration costs: 3,810

 

2020/2021 - £1,009,946

Staffing costs: £1,006,948

Administration costs: 2,998

 

2021/2022 - £1,013,034

Staffing costs:  £1,010,195

Administration costs: £2,839

 

2022/2023 - £1,059,317

Staffing costs: £1,056,716

Administration costs: £2,601

 

You may think it is appropriate to add the above figures to those already
provided on 10 November 2022.

Please accept our apologies for this omission from our original response. 

 

Best regards

Jonathan Sheward
Information Rights Officer
Information Management
Warwickshire County Council
Shire Hall
Warwick
CV34 4RL
Tel: 01926 413716
Email: [email address
 
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