Data of how direct payments are being used by users

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Dear Camden Borough Council,

☆For the attention of Adult Social Services☆

Could you provide all data in relation to how direct payments are specifically being used by users aged 21-55? All other ages can be excluded. The more comprehensive and detailed this list is, the more useful it will be for this FOI request. For example, data showing DPs being used for a gym membership (including how much it costs) would be far more valuable than data showing DPs being used for "leisure activities" which would be too broad; nonspecific and unhelpful.

If you require dates to extract this data could you extract it from the following financial years:

• 2018-2019
• 2022-2023

I appreciate that this data is likely to be quite laborious, especially when extracting the data from a manual trawl of individual care and support plans. It may or may not be easier to consider past audits and current monitoring systems to extract the same data.

To compliment the core request, could you kindly send me your direct payments policy including your practice guidance for practitioners. Could you also send me your Care and Support Planning Policy along with your practice guidance for practioners. Please send any other policies you feel are relevant or related to the policies and practice guidance documents requested above.

Yours faithfully,

Dean

FOI, Camden Borough Council

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Dear FOI,

No problem - my name is Clayton Dean.

Yours sincerely,

Dean

Camden Council, Camden Borough Council

Dear Clayton Dean

Your case reference is CAM5364

Thank you for your enquiry. It is being looked at, we will be in touch
with you soon.

Yours sincerely

Camden Council

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Dear Requester,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 and ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS
2004 – request for information. Ref: CAM5364

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