Council Expenditure or Payment to Suppliers from Oct 2022 to Jun 2023

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Dear Orkney Islands Council,

As in the past, I would like to make an FOI request for all payments to suppliers who provided a service in Health and Social Care from Oct 2022 -Jun 2023. As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it & any additional descriptors.

This would include all suppliers falling under the categories :-

1. Children's services - Fostering & adoption (including payments made to independent fostering agencies and for in-house fostering), residential care, SEN (special education services)
2. Adult & elderly services - Residential/nursing care, domiciliary & supported living, care at home providers
3. Providers who carry out homeless services

In particular I am looking for itemized transactions for these suppliers - preferably in CSV format. I look forward to the information at the earliest.

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

Nikhil Prabhu

foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

Thank you for your information request dated 3 September 2023 and received on 4 September 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0929. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

We are considering your request. We may be in touch soon to ask for further clarification or to offer advice and assistance if we are not able to fulfil your request in its present form.

The legislation allows us up to 20 working days from the date that we receive a valid request, including any clarification we need to make a final response. We will be in touch within 20 working days of receipt of your initial request to provide our response or to seek clarification where necessary. We hope to give you the information you are looking for at an earlier date if possible.

Regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210

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foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your information request received 4 September 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0929.

Can you please clarify when you say ‘suppliers’, do you mean ‘suppliers of care’ i.e. agencies?

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to the Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email], Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Kind regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210

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foi, Orkney Islands Council

Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED

Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your information request received 4 September 2023. Our reference is FOI 2023-0929.

Can you please clarify when you say ‘suppliers’, do you mean ‘suppliers of care’ i.e. agencies?

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to the Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email], Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Kind regards

Katy Russell-Duff
Administrative Officer/FOI Co-ordinator
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2210

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Dear foi,

Yes Supplier means both agencies and Providers falls under following care category
1. Children's services - Fostering & adoption (including payments made to independent fostering agencies and for in-house fostering), residential care, SEN (special education services)
2. Adult & elderly services - Residential/nursing care, domiciliary & supported living, care at home providers
3. Providers who carry out homeless services

Yours sincerely,

Nikhil Prabhu

foi, Orkney Islands Council

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your email dated 3 September 2023 and received on 4 September 2023, our reference is FOI 2023-0929.

I am pleased to give the information you requested, as attached, and hope that it meets your requirements.

Where the payments to a particular supplier relate to 5 or fewer service users, we have anonymized the supplier. This is because we need to protect the identity and placements of our service users. Also please note that the report we can run doesn’t include the procurement category.

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email]. Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and
Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Regards

Paul Kesterton
Information Governance Officer
Strategy, Performance & Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2241
www.orkney.gov.uk

Katy Russell-Duff
Committees Officer/FOI Practitioner
Strategy, Performance and Business Solutions
Orkney Islands Council
Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone (01856) 873535 Extension 2239

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Dear Sir/Madam

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Request for Information

I refer to your email dated 3 September 2023 and received on 4 September 2023, our reference is FOI 2023-0929.

Further to our response of 12 October, we have noticed that some information was omitted.

I am pleased to give the information you requested, as attached, and hope that it meets your requirements.

1. Residential care, Special Education Services - £697,925.11 (Education share of invoices – normally split 50:50 with OHAC)
3. Homeless Services – Right There payments - £176,123.87

Under FOISA, if you are dissatisfied with our response, you may ask the Council to review its handling of your request. If you wish to do this, you should make your request for review within 40 working days of receiving this email. Please make your request for review to Service Manager (Governance), Council Offices, School Place, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY or email to [Orkney Islands Council request email]. Your request must be in permanent form (letter, email, audio tape etc) and should state:

That you are asking for a review of this decision, and Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.

We will issue a full response to your request for review within 20 working days of our receiving it.

Where the outcome of the review fails to resolve the matter to your complete satisfaction, you then have the right to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. You have six months in which to do so following receipt of our review outcome – see www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Regards

Paul Kesterton
Information Governance Officer
Strategy, Performance & Business Solutions Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NY
Telephone: 01856 873535 Extension: 2241
www.orkney.gov.uk

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