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
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Tel / Ffôn:  01597 82 7543         
 
Fax / Ffacs:  01597 82 6215      
 
Email/Llythyru electronig:
  [1][Powys County Council request email]

Our ref / Ein cyf:  F2018-0482

Date / Dyddiad:   02/01/18

Request Accepted

FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000

Reference No: F2018/0482

Dear Ms Jiva

Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
10/05/2018, in which you requested details of the following:

Database Of Services      

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 08/06/2018.

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:  F2018-0482

Date / Dyddiad:   18/06/2018

Reference No: F2018-0482

Dear Ms Jiva

Thank you for your request for information dated 10/5/18 concerning
Databases of Services

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

The Request:

Please could you send me a spreadsheet with all support services
commissioned by or connected to your council? e.g. drugs services, mental
health, accommodation etc.

The information I need is: Categories (drugs/health); name; brief
description; telephone number(s); email address(es); postal address (with
post code); opening hours; other criteria (e.g. age
groups/ethnicity/gender); and any other information that you hold (e.g.
contact person).

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Powys County
Council, when refusing to provide such information (because the
information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which:

(a)  states that fact;

(b)  specifies the exemption in question and

(c)  states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption
applies.

In this instance the relevant exemption is Section 12 of the Freedom of
Information Act.

Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 makes provision for
public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of
dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, as detailed in the
Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate limit) Regulations 2004.

The limit for public authorities is set at £450 which amounts to a maximum
of 18 hours of search and retrieval time charged at £25.00 per person per
hour.

The Regulations set out what may be taken into account when public
authorities are estimating whether the appropriate limit has been
exceeded. The costs are limited to those that an authority reasonably
expects to incur in:

·         determining whether it holds the information requested

·         locating the information or documents containing the information

·         retrieving such information or documents

·         extracting the information from the document containing it
(including editing or reformatting information)

This information requested will require input from several different
service areas, searches of multiple databases, and cross-checking of all
the answers received to sieve for duplicates . This alone will take in
excess of the time limits listed above.

We are therefore not obliged to provide a response to this part of  your
request, as the time required for officers to locate, retrieve and extract
the data from information held would exceed the appropriate limit.

In accordance with Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 I am
unable to provide you with the details you have requested.

However within the timescale allowed we have limited our search to Social
Care Services only.

Powys County Council commission a wide range of care and support services.
In addition, the Council also work with a number of key partners to ensure
residents’ are able to access appropriate care and support to meet their
needs where provision of the support is not directly funded by the
Council. Individual care plans are develop jointly with people accessing
services where they have an assessed need. The support provided or
commissioned by the Council within care plans therefore targets areas of
support required to help people to continue to do what matters to them.
The range of support provided and services commissioned by the council is
subject to continual change in line with the changing needs of residents.
For example, the Council provide or commission the following types of
support services:

Support / Service What it does How is Support or service
accessed
Information and advice Access to accurate and Information and advice is
timely information is accessed via a range of
seen as central to giving media including, face to
everyone a fair and equal face support, Powys
chance in life. We are people Direct, the
committed to strengthen Council’s website,
information and advice electronic mail, and
services, with the aim of through a range of
helping people to leaflets and poster.
understand and exercise Access to this service is
their rights, and to help available to all
people to make informed residents
decisions.
 
Advocacy Advocacy support is
available were required
to assist people to what
they want, secure their
rights, represent their
interests and help them
to obtain support they
need.
Domiciliary Care The service supports Access to this service is
people to continue to via assessment of need.
live independently in The time of day that
their own homes, and support is accessed is
assists people in agreed with individual
undertake a range of residents, and therefore
tasks such as personal varies from person to
care, getting up in the person;
morning, or getting ready
to bed. People  
undertaking this support
may work directly for the
Council, or for a service
commissioned from a
voluntary or private
sector provider.
Community Equipment Equipment is provided to Access to this service is
and Technology Enabled support people to via assessment of need
Independence continue to live
independently in their
current homes,
Day time activities The Council directly Access to publically
and Day Centers manage and commission a funded service is via
range of day time support assessment of need
from voluntary and
private sector providers.
Day centres provide older
people with both
practical assistance and
a chance to socialise,
with support from trained
staff.
Residential care The Council own 12 care Access to support funded
homes in Powys which are by the council is via
currently managed by BUPA assessment of need.
Plc on the Council’s
behalf. The Council also
commission residential
care from all existing
private sector and third
sector older peoples’
residential care home in
Powys. The council, also
fund placements in care
homes outside of Powys.
Support for carers Support accessible be Help and support is
cares is dependent on available for unpaid
individual carer’s needs. carers, is via an
integrated care needs
assessments.
Home adaptations Individual home Home adaptations are
adaptations undertaken accessed via assessment
depend on individual of need.
need, but may for example
include adaptations such
as, grab rails,
accessible showers,
ramps, etc
Substance Misuse The council work with a Information and advice is
services range of partners to available to all
support people to reduce residents. Access to
risks and / or abstain targeted and specialist
from substance misuse. support can be via self
Support ranges from early or third party referral
intervention and dependent up the nature
prevention, to specialist of support required.
detox support.
Mental Health The council work with a Access to support is
range of partners to dependent up the nature
support people who may of support required.
have mental health
concerns or illness.
Support ranges from early
intervention and
prevention, through to
specialist Mental Health
Hospital services.
Learning Disability The council work with a Information and advice is
Services range of partners to available to all
support people who may residents. Access to
have learning targeted and specialist
difficulties or a support is dependent up
learning Disability. the nature of support
Support ranges from early required and assessment
intervention and of need.
prevention, through to
specialist Accommodation
support.
Reablement services Reablement provides Access to reablement
personal care, help with services tends to be for
daily living activities people who have just been
and other practical discharged from hospital
tasks, usually for up to or are otherwise entering
six weeks, reablement the care system following
encourages service users a crisis.
to develop the confidence
and skills to carry out
these activities
themselves and continue
to live at home.
Shared Lives Shared lives schemes The schemes seeks to
supports adults with match someone who needs
learning disabilities, care with an approved
mental health problems or carer. Access to funded
adults with other needs support is therefore via
that make it harder for an assessment of need.
them to live on their
own.
Community support and The council financial Service may operate
activities supports a wide range of different accessibility
community and voluntary criteria depending on the
support services across nature of support
the County via grant provided
funding and through
commissioned services.
Direct Payments Direct Payments are Access is via assessment
payments for people who of need.
have been assessed as
needing help from social
services, and who would
like to arrange and pay
for their own care and
support services instead
of receiving them from
the council or Council
commissioned services

We regret the delay you have experienced with this request. We acknowledge
that Powys County Council has failed in its obligation under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, to provide you with a response to your request
within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. Please accept our
apologies for this and for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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

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