Elderly home care information
Dear Enfield Council,
I would like to obtain the following information under the FOI Act regarding elderly (65+) domiciliary care in your local authority.
1. The number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care providers (split into requested by users and awarded to providers if possible)
2. The estimated annual spend commissioned for Adult Social Care through private domiciliary care providers (split into budgeted / spent if possible)
3. The type of agreements held with private domiciliary care providers commissioned to deliver Adult Social Care services such as frameworks, Spot Contracts, Block Contracts etc and their start/end dates, and the proportion of the split
4. When you anticipate retendering for elderly domiciliary care services
5. The names of the current elderly domiciliary care providers commissioned in your authority
6. A contact name, email address and contact number of the person responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority
7. The number of 65+ currently receiving a direct payment within your local authority
8. Does the council have a target to increase the number of individuals using a direct payment? If so what is this target?
9. The number of 65+ that require social care to now compared with 2010
10. Changes in spending on adult elderly social care per adult between 2010 and 2016
11. Proportion of 65+ care users who self-fund their care
Yours faithfully,
Melvin
Thank you for your email.
We will respond as soon as possible.
Regards,
Complaints and Access to Information Team,
Enfield Council.
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Dear Melvin,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – INFORMATION REQUEST
Thank you for your email received on 15 August 2017 requesting
information about Domiciliary Care.
Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.
If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me.
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communications.
Yours sincerely,
Theresa Willard
Complaints and Access to Information Coordinator- Gateway Services
Finance, Resources and Customer Services
Enfield Council
Thomas Hardy House
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Enfield
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Dear Melvin,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 16/08/17, where
you requested information about domiciliary care.
The answers to your request are below:
1. The number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care
providers (split into requested by users and awarded to providers if
possible) - Approximately 1.4m hours per year
2. The estimated annual spend commissioned for Adult Social Care
through private domiciliary care providers (split into budgeted / spent if
possible) – Approximately £19.6m spent per year
3. The type of agreements held with private domiciliary care providers
commissioned to deliver Adult Social Care services such as frameworks,
Spot Contracts, Block Contracts etc and their start/end dates, and the
proportion of the split – no block contracts, all done on a spot
purchasing basis
4. When you anticipate retendering for elderly domiciliary care
services – not applicable, not block or framework contracts
5. The names of the current elderly domiciliary care providers
commissioned in your authority – list of regulated providers in borough
available through CQC website
6. A contact name, email address and contact number of the person
responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority
– [email address]
7. The number of 65+ currently receiving a direct payment within your
local authority – approximately 1,200
8. Does the council have a target to increase the number of individuals
using a direct payment? If so what is this target? – 60% of people
receiving community based services
9. The number of 65+ that require social care to now compared with 2010
– numbers have increased by between 1% and 2% per year, year on year.
10. Changes in spending on adult elderly social care per adult between
2010 and 2016 – 30% reduction overall split proportionally across all
service areas
11. Proportion of 65+ care users who self-fund their care – not
available
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Regards
Matthew Breslin
Complaints and Access to Information Coordinator- Gateway Services
Finance, Resources and Customer Services
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Enfield Council
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