Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Strategic Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
David Powell
Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
  If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
 
 
 
Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543         
 
Fax / Ffacs:  01597 82 6215      
 
Email/Llythyru electronig:
  [1][Powys County Council request email]

Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2018-0521

Date / Dyddiad:   02/01/18

 

 

Request Accepted

 

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

Reference No: F2018/0521

 

Dear Ms Perks

 

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
21/05/2018, in which you requested details of the following:

 

Alpha Care  

 

The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.

 

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

 

There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.

 

Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.

 

The due date for responding to this request for information is 19/06/2018.

 

Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

Carl Bryden

 

Information Compliance Officer

 

 

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Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Strategic Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
David Powell
Spa Road East

Llandrindod Wells

Powys LD1 5LG
  If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
 
 
 
Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543         
 
Fax / Ffacs:  01597 82 6215      

Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][Powys County Council request email]

Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2018-0521

Date / Dyddiad:   11/06/2018

 

Reference No: F2018-0521

 

 

Dear MS Perks,

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 21/05/2018 concerning
Alpha Care.

 

This is to inform you that your request has been considered and I can
provide the following response:

 

The Request:

 

Alpha Care submitted a tender to Powys CC to provide domiciliary care
services on 17th July 2013 and then was awarded a contract by Powys CC,
18th September, 2013. The named “Authorised Officer” Commissioning and
Contracts for this and other tenders was Mr Paul Smith. Mr Smith then left
Powys CC to work for two agencies awarded council contracts to provide
domiciliary care in Powys and then to Alpha Care. Alpha Care went into
liquidation on 29th April, 2015, owing over £701,114.68 to creditors. One
of these creditors was another domiciliary agency in Powys called Tender
Loving Care Agency who were owed £94,326.24.

 

I would be grateful if you could provide me with answers to the following
questions:

 

1.         Please provide the date at which Powys CC became aware that
Alpha Care was experiencing financial difficulties, and also the date when
it was informed that Alpha Care was unable to provide home support
services and therefore unable to pay its creditors.

 

2.         Please provide the date at which Powys CC exercise a duty of
care by informing Tender Loving Care Agency (as a sub-contractor for the
Alpha Care contract) that Alpha Care would be unable to meet its financial
obligations to TLC.

 

3.         Bearing in mind Paul Smith’s key role in the award of the
contract to Alpha Care by Powys CC and then subsequent employment with
Alpha Care, did Powys CC scrutinise and undertake an investigation into
the part and behaviours displayed by Paul Smith during the award of the
contract and monitoring of Alpha Care, and also over his subsequent move
to this agency. If so, please provide minutes, notes of any meetings held.

 

4.         Was Powys CC a creditor of Alpha Care? If so, please provide
the amount owed, the settlement figure and the date paid.

 

The Response:

 

1.    Powys County Council had initial concerns in November 2014. However
the Council were not informed that Alpha Home Care Support Services
Limited  was ‘unable to provide home support services and therefore unable
to pay its creditors’.

2.    Powys County Council hold no recorded information.  However, the
Council was not informed by Alpha Home Care Support Services Limited that
they would be unable to meet their financial obligations to TLC.  We do
not accept that we owe a duty of care to Tender Loving Care Agency as
alleged in the request. 

3.    Powys County Council hold no recorded information.

4.    Powys County Council was not a creditor of Alpha Home Care Support
Services Ltd.

 

 

We believe that this request is now complete and shall be closed
immediately. Should any further information be requested regarding this
topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Information Compliance Team

 

 

The supply of documents under Freedom of Information does not give the
person or organisation who receives them an automatic right to re-use the
documents in a way that would infringe copyright.

 

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example, by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public
will require the permission of the copyright owner.

 

The copyright of most of the information that we provide in response to
Freedom of Information Act requests will be owned by Powys County Council.
The copyright in other information may be owned by another person or
organisation, as indicated in the information itself.

 

For HMSO Guidance Notes on a range of copyright issues, see the Office of
Public Sector Information(OPSI) website.

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If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received in relation to
your request and wish to make a complaint, please contact Information
Compliance. Our complaints procedure is available on request or on our
website.

 

If you are still not satisfied following this, you can make an appeal to
the Information Commissioner, who is the statutory regulator. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

2nd floor

Churchill House

Churchill way

Cardiff

CF10 2HH

Tel: 029 2067 8400

Email: [3][email address]

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