Dear Jo Davies,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your two identical
requests for information of 24 January 2012.

(Please note that, although the WDTK site lists the CoL at two places –

[1]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/city_...

[2]http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/body/commo...

- where your two identical requests are listed, the CoL is in fact only
one legal entity. We have informed the WDTK website of this and explained
that it would be less confusing for applicants if the site referred to the
CoL under one name instead of maintaining two lists and two names for the
same legal entity, but it has declined to make the change. For further
clarification of the position of the CoL under the FOIA, please see
Paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 of the FOIA, which describes the CoL as being
subject to the FOIA with regard to 'The Common Council of the City of
London, in respect of information held in its capacity as a local
authority, police authority or port health authority').

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the
historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the
following link to a map on the CoL's website, which shows the area
covered:

[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/boundary_map.htm.

The CoL’s port health authority functions extend beyond the City boundary.
For further information please see:
[4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/porthealth.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer

City of London

Tel: 020-7332 1209

[5]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Jo Davies

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Following your request for information dated 24^th January 2012, and our
acknowledgement of the 25^th January 2012, we apologise that we have not
met the statutory deadline for responding.  We have been dealing with a
continued high number of FOI requests, together with competing statutory
deadlines in other areas of our departmental work and therefore would like
to extend the deadline to close of 29^th February 2012.

 

Given the delay, we are required to inform you of the complaints
procedure, as follows. If you wish to make a complaint about the way the
CoL has handled your enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to
email address: [email address]. For a link to the CoL’s
FOI complaints procedure, please visit the following page:
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the
FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI Complaints
Procedure, you are still dissatisfied; you may request the Information
Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone:
(01625) 545700.  Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Business Service Officer 

Department of Community and Children’s Services

 

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Dear Jo Davies,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Following receipt of your request for information on the 24^th January
2012 and our acknowledgement of the 25^th January 2012, the City of London
(CoL) responds as follows.

 

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I kindly request the following
information in relation to day services for adults with a learning
disability in your local authority:

    

1) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability were known to
social services in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12?

2009/2010 - 12

2010/2011 - 13

2011/2012 - 13

    

2) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability attended day
activities in a) 2009/10, b) 2010/11 and c) 2011/12:  (Same numbers for
all years)

    

i. 5 days a week or more - 3

ii. 4 days a week - 0

iii. 3 days a week - 3

iv. 2 days a week - 0

v. 1 day a week - 0

vi. 0 days a week? - 0

    

3) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability attended the
following type of day activities in a) 2009/2010, b) 2010/2011 and c)
2011/2012: (Same numbers for all years)

    

i.  day centres - 4

ii. employment - 1

iii. education - 1

iv. voluntary work - 0

v.  other activities? - 0

    

4) How many a) day centre places and b) equivalent day service places for
adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability were funded by the local
authority in the following financial years:  

a) Day Care Centre Places    

i. 2009/10  - 1

ii. 2010/11 - 1

iii. 2011/12 - 1

   

 b) Equivalent day services places – 0 for all years.

 

and how many do you expect will be funded in iv. 2012/13? - 4

    

5) How many adults aged 18-65 with a learning disability who attended day
activities in

2009/2010 

2010/2011

2011/2012 lived:    

i. in the family home - 3

ii. in their own home - 1

iii. in supported accommodation - 1

iv. in residential accommodation? -1

 

NB:Same numbers for all years

 

6) If there have been day service closures within the local authority,
have any alternative services been put in place for those who attended the
day centre; i.e. new learning disability-specific community activities or
transport to/from suitable existing day activities?

No closures

    

7) If there have been day service closures within the local authority,
were consultations held, and if so, what were the consultation periods?
Please provide full details (excluding personal/confidential data) of all
consultation responses and the resulting statement from the council.

N/A

    

  

8) Have charges for any of the following services increased since 1st
April 2009:

    

i. day centre attendance  - No increase

    

ii. transport to and from day activities N/A (NB: City Of London
Corporation does not provide or fund transport to and from day
activities).

 

iii. any related activities;  - No increases

    

and if so by how much? N/A

 

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 9700 and only maintains one school in its capacity as a Local
Education Authority, namely the Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School,
a voluntary aided school.  Please see the following link further details:

[1]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

 

We hope that this assists.

 

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[email address].

 

For a link to the CoL’s FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700.  Website: [3]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

 

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority.  Subject to any
other statutory provisions requiring the City of London to disclose
information, release of information outside the scope of the Act is
subject to the discretion of the City of London.

 

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Business Service Officer 

Department of Community and Children’s Services

 

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