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Dear Cherwell 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

FOI & EIR REQUESTS, Cherwell District Council

Good morning,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 26/09/2022.

Please can we ask that you use our standard form to make your request. This can be located on our website at https://www.cherwell.gov.uk/info/5/your-....

Please see heading Freedom of Information (FOI) Act for more information and for a link to our Freedom of Information Request form.

Kind regards

Information Governance Officer
Information Governance Team
Law and Governance
Cherwell District Council
Bodicote House
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire. OX15 4AA

www.cherwell.gov.uk

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Dear FOI & EIR REQUESTS,

I am submitting this request to multiple local authorities as part of a line of enquiry. Unfortunately it is not possible to meet each organisations preferences. My request was made in writing, my full name is Daniel Reed so the request should be valid.

Yours sincerely,

Dan

FOI & EIR REQUESTS, Cherwell District Council

Dear Dan,

Thank you for your email.

The email address [email address] is a general inbox where queries in respect of FOIs/EIRs are sent to and dealt with from, it does not log and or register requests for information.

As a public authority CDC needs to ensure it is able to log and monitor requests with enough information to allow officers to maintain compliance, track the progress of the many requests received and to report on them. CDCs FOI requesting system is not a deterrent and the form provided asks only for the information required to process your request.

CDC now look forward to receiving your request via https://www.cherwell.gov.uk/info/5/your-... where we can log, acknowledge, track progress, respond and report.

Kind regards

Information Governance Officer
Law and Governance
Cherwell District Council
Bodicote House
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire. OX15 4AA

www.cherwell.gov.uk

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Dear FOI & EIR REQUESTS,

It was my understanding that any request made in writing triggered the FOI act: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/gui...

Please advise on what legal grounds/ guidance you are basing your position of only accepting FOI requests which are submitted via your website?

Yours sincerely,

Dan

FOI & EIR REQUESTS, Cherwell District Council

Dear Dan,

Thank you for your email of 26/09/2022 where you requested information about Adult Social Care:

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)?

I am writing to advise you as previously informed to make a request under Freedom of Information to Cherwell District Council ( the Council) please do so via the following link . This can be located on our website at https://www.cherwell.gov.uk/info/5/your-....

This process is to ensure as a Public Authority the Council is able to log and monitor requests with enough information to allow officers to maintain compliance, track the progress of the many requests received and to report on them.

I also need to advise you that the information you requested is not held by this Authority. Due to the nature of the information that you are seeking, your request would be more appropriately addressed to Oxfordshire County Council.

As such, we propose to transfer your request to that organisation. However, before we transfer the request, we need your permission to advise Oxfordshire County Council of your name and contact details.

If you agree to this, please sign the declaration below and/ or indicate via return email to [email address].

If you have any queries about this email, please email [email address].

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I [INSERT APPLICANT'S NAME]
hereby authorise Cherwell District Council
to transfer my information request to Oxfordshire County Council

Signature: ……………………………

Kind regards

Information Governance Officer
Law and Governance
Cherwell District Council
Bodicote House
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire. OX15 4AA

www.cherwell.gov.uk

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Freedom of Information, Cherwell District Council

Dear Daniel

Re: Your Freedom of Information 2000 request

We write to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request dated and received on 26 September 2022 made under Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Council apologises for the delay in acknowledging and responding to your request. We normally process requests under Freedom of Information Act 2000 within 20 working days, please be assured that every effort is being put in to ensure that the Council responds to requests in a timely manner.

In your request, you asked for:

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)?

We expect to provide a response by 3 August 2023.

Please be aware that, in certain circumstances, the law allows us to charge a fee in order to deal with your request depending on the complexity of your request. We will advise you as soon as possible of this.

If we cannot meet your request, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions 3 August 2023.

If you have any questions on the status of your request, please contact Information Governance at [email address].

Kind regards,

Information Governance Officer
Law and Governance
Cherwell District Council
Bodicote House
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire. OX15 4AA

www.cherwell.gov.uk

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Adeleke Jayeola, Cherwell District Council

Dear Daniel,

Thank you for your request for information.

Unfortunately, Cherwell District Council cannot process your requests because you have not given us your full name. Section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act states that you must give us your full name for a request to be valid.

Could you please let us know your full name to enable us to process your request.

For further guidance please see the Information Commissioners Office Guidance “Recognising a request made under the Freedom of Information Act” – in particular the section entitled “Name of the applicant”, on the link below:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...

Kind Regards,

Adeleke Jayeola
Information Governance Officer (Locum)
Cherwell District Council

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