Dear Mr. Paulley

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2015-0666

I am writing to confirm that we received your information request on 28
May 2015. For your information and future communications your request has
been allocated the reference number FOI2015-0666. Please quote this
reference in any future correspondence.

We will consider your request and respond in accordance with the
requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Our duty is to
respond promptly or at least within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

Web: [1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

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Dear Mr. Paulley

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REF: 2015-0666

I am responding to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
which we received on 28 May 2015, for information held by the Council. You
requested:

You recently kindly provided me with useful information about the fees you
pay to Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) and to other providers for social
care, and what representations (if any) LCD has made to your council to
increase fees paid by yourselves to LCD in order to enable LCD to pay its
carers the Living Wage.

Luton council has indicated that since I made the above Freedom of
Information Request to yourselves, they have received correspondence from
LCD opening up discussion on the fees paid to LCD to enable LCD to pay the
living wage. Further, LCD have informed my father that they "have in fact
recently written to all local authorities who commission our services
about our desire to pay the living wage."

I wonder if you could please inform me as to whether you have indeed
received such correspondence from LCD. Further, could you please provide
me with a copy of the correspondence (or, to be technically correct under
the FOI Act, could you provide me with the information contained in the
correspondence, preferably in the form of a copy of the actual
correspondence.)

We received correspondence from Leonard Cheshire but there was no
reference to the Living Wage.

Complaints

I trust this has satisfied your request. Should you be unhappy with the
handling of your request, the Council has an internal complaints process
for handling FOIA complaints. Complaints are reviewed by the Chief
Solicitor and Monitoring Officer or her nominee. A form is available from
our website to lodge your complaint
[1]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/councilanddemocra...
Please contact us if you do not have website access and we can provide you
with a copy of the form. Following this review, should you still be
unhappy with how your information request has been handled, you have a
further right to appeal to the Information Commissioner who is responsible
for ensuring compliance with FOIA.  

Yours sincerely

Robin Yu

Information Protection Assistant

Information Governance Team

Information Systems Division (ISD)

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

Tel: 020 7938 8226

Web: [2]http://www.rbkc.gov.uk

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