Independent Living Fund

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Dear Croydon Borough Council,

1. How many former Independent Living Fund (ILF) recipients reside in your London Borough?

2. How many former ILF recipients who have had community care assessments have had reductions in levels of their care package funding and/or support compared to the total they received from both the ILF and the Local Authority combined before closure?

Of these how many have had reductions:

• Of under 10%?
• Of between 10 and 20%?
• Of between 21 and 40%?
• Of between 41 and 50%?
• Of over 50%?

3. The government committed to four years’ worth of funding through the former ILF Recipient Grant from 2016/17 until 2019/20. Has your London borough:

• Ring-fenced this to care and support for former ILF recipients?
• Ring-fenced to adult social care?
• Not ring-fenced?

4. How many former ILF recipients have as part of their re-assessment been referred for a Continuing Healthcare Assessment, and of these how many were found eligible?

5. How many complaints have been received from former ILF recipients concerning their re-assessments and the outcomes thereof?

6. How many former ILF recipients have been moved into residential care following the closure of the ILF?

Yours faithfully,

Jon Abrams
Inclusion London

Croydon Council, Croydon Borough Council

FOI/EIR request
Our reference: 1413389

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Dear Croydon Borough Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Croydon Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Independent Living Fund'.

Please can you explain why you do not hold the information about the Independent Living Fund?

And, secondly can you let us know who does hold the information?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i...

Yours faithfully,

Jon Abrams

Passman, Howard, Croydon Borough Council

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Dear Mr. Abrams,

 

Thank you for your email dated 3 March 2020 in which you requested an
Internal Review of the Council’s response to your request for information.

 

I have been asked to conduct an Internal Review of the Council's response
to your request for information, and will endeavour to provide a response
within the statutory timescales; that is no later than 31 March 2020. 
However, if for any reason there is a need to extend the time for the
review, I will contact you before that date.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

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Dear Mr. Abrams,

 

Further to your email dated 3 March 2020, in which you requested an
Internal Review of the Council’s response to your request for information,
I have now concluded this review and I am able to reply as follows. Please
accept my apologies for the delay in responding to you.

 

In your request for Internal Review, you asked the Council to reconsider
your request as had not been provided with the information requested.

 

In your request for information dated 13 January 2020, you requested the
following information:

 

“1. How many former Independent Living Fund (ILF) recipients reside in
your London Borough?

 

2. How many former ILF recipients who have had community care assessments
have had reductions in levels of their care package funding and/or support
compared to the total they received from both the ILF and the Local
Authority combined before closure?

 

Of these how many have had reductions:

 

·         Of under 10%?

·         Of between 10 and 20%?

·         Of between 21 and 40%?

·         Of between 41 and 50%?

·         Of over 50%?

 

3. The government committed to four years’ worth of funding through the
former ILF Recipient Grant from 2016/17 until 2019/20. Has your London
borough:

 

·         Ring-fenced this to care and support for former ILF recipients?

·         Ring-fenced to adult social care?

·         Not ring-fenced?

 

4. How many former ILF recipients have as part of their re-assessment been
referred for a Continuing Healthcare Assessment, and of these how many
were found eligible?

 

5. How many complaints have been received from former ILF recipients
concerning their re- assessments and the outcomes thereof?

 

6. How many former ILF recipients have been moved into residential care
following the closure of the ILF?”

 

The Council responded to you on the 2 March 2020 and provided the
following response:

 

“We do not report on ILF clients so this information is not held.

 

In your request for an Internal Review dated 3 March 2020, you stated the
following:

 

“Please can you explain why you do not hold the information about the
Independent Living Fund?

 

And, secondly can you let us know who does hold the information?”

 

On receiving your request for an Internal Review, I contacted the
Assistant Director 0-65 Disability Service, Adult Social Care and All Age
Disability, who has provided additional information in answer to the
issues raised in your Internal Review.

 

I have been informed that currently no individuals are in receipt of ILF
funding as the grant ceased to exist in June 2015 and since that time the
Council, no longer tracks expenditure relating to this cohort, as the
replacement grant arrangements did not include such a requirement. As a
result the Council does not hold all the information to respond to all of
the questions below.  In an effort to provide you with assistance, the
Council is able to provide you with the following information:

 

 

1. How many former Independent Living Fund (ILF) recipients reside in your
London Borough?

·         64

 

2. How many former ILF recipients who have had community care assessments
have had reductions in levels of their care package funding and/or support
compared to the total they received from both the ILF and the Local
Authority combined before closure?

 

Of these how many have had reductions:

 

·         Of under 10%?

·         Of between 10 and 20%?

·         Of between 21 and 40%?

·         Of between 41 and 50%?

·         Of over 50%?

 

·         A total of 6 clients have reduced care packages since moving off
ILF; information regarding the percentage reductions is not held.

 

3. The government committed to four years’ worth of funding through the
former ILF Recipient Grant from 2016/17 until 2019/20. Has your London
borough:

 

·         Ring-fenced this to care and support for former ILF recipients?

·         Ring-fenced to adult social care?

·         Not ring-fenced?

 

·         The budget was not ring fenced, but remained within the same
areas of Adult Social Care that supports former ILF recipients.

 

4. How many former ILF recipients have as part of their re-assessment been
referred for a Continuing Healthcare Assessment, and of these how many
were found eligible?

·         19 clients received a CHC assessment.

 

5. How many complaints have been received from former ILF recipients
concerning their re- assessments and the outcomes thereof?

 

·         Information not held.

 

6. How many former ILF recipients have been moved into residential care
following the closure of the ILF?

 

·         1

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the Internal Review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Howard Passman

020 8726 6000 ext. 62318

 

Information Management and Governance Co-ordinator

 

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