Kirklees: Leonard Cheshire, the Living Wage and fees for residential care for younger adults
Doug Paulley made this Freedom of Information request to Kirklees Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Kirklees Borough Council,
Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) claim that they would like to pay their carers the Living Wage but that they are not paid enough by social care funders such as yourself to do so.
I wonder if you could please tell me:
1) what representations Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) have made to the Council asking for increases in the fees paid for social care provided by them, in order to pay their carers the Living Wage.
2) Some idea as to the fees currently being paid by the Council to LCD for residential care, per resident per week. A range of fees or a set of anonymised figures of the fees perhaps. Other councils have opted to supply statistical median and range as they were concerned that individual fees could make it possible for people to have a guess at which residents had which fees.
3) Equivalent information for fees paid to other providers for residential care in care homes for people with physical impairments under the age of 65.
Thank you
Yours faithfully,
Doug Paulley
Dear Mr Paulley
I confirm receipt of your information request and that I am looking into this.
I will respond to you in due course.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
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Dear Freedom Info,
I wonder if you could please check the status of my request for information, and advise me as to a potential timescale for response? Responses should be sent "promptly" and in any case within 20 working days, so at the latest by 27 February 2015 but I haven't received it as yet.
I do appreciate the pressures on service providers, particularly during these times of enforced national stringency, but I would appreciate some idea as to when the information may be provided.
Yours sincerely,
Doug Paulley
Dear Mr Paulley
I refer to your email below and confirm that a response to your FOI request was due on Friday - please accept my apologies that you did not receive this.
I am liaising with the Service concerned and will contact you again once I receive their reply.
Yours sincerely
Jenny Cartwright
Information Access Team
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Dear Mr Paulley
I refer to your recent enquiry relating to the above which has been dealt
with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please find below the council’s response:
Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) claim that they would like to pay their
carers the Living Wage but that they are not paid enough by social care
funders such as yourself to do so.
I wonder if you could please tell me:
1) what representations Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) have made
to the Council asking for increases in the fees paid for social care
provided by them, in order to pay their carers the Living Wage.
We have received a request in December for an uplift from Leonard Cheshire
in relation to their care homes in Kirklees and we are currently
investigating the rationale for this prior to making a decision.
2) Some idea as to the fees currently being paid by the Council to
LCD for residential care, per resident per week. A range of fees or a set
of anonymised figures of the fees perhaps. Other councils have opted to
supply statistical median and range as they were concerned that individual
fees could make it possible for people to have a guess at which residents
had which fees.
We pay Leonard Cheshire a range of fees between £510 to £1273 per week and
this is based on each individual’s needs.
3) Equivalent information for fees paid to other providers for
residential care in care homes for people with physical impairments under
the age of 65.
Leonard Cheshire are the principal provider of specialist PD care for
adults aged under 65 in Kirklees. We do, however, purchase care from some
other providers including the Hollybank Trust (mostly younger adults);
Aden Mount and, where appropriate, some care homes targeted at older
people. The fees paid range from £450 through to £1,600 per week.
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Dear Freedom Info,
Thank you for the information.
Please clarify. You say "We have received a request in December for an uplift from Leonard Cheshire in relation to their care homes in Kirklees and we are currently investigating the rationale for this". Could you please indicate whether any part of the rationale proposed by Leonard Cheshire included their wish to pay their carers the living wage?
Thank you
Yours sincerely,
Doug Paulley
Dear Mr Paulley
I confirm receipt of your email and that I am looking into this.
I will respond to you in due course.
Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
e: [email address]
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Dear Freedom Info,
Thank you;
Have you any idea as to timescales as to when you will be able to provide a reply please?
Yours sincerely,
Doug Paulley
Dear Mr Paulley
I refer to your email below and confirm that I have chased this with the Service concerned.
I am sorry for the delay but will respond to you as soon as I receive their reply.
Kind regards
Jenny Cartwright
Information Access Team
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Dear Mr Paulley
I refer to previous correspondence regarding the above and your subsequent question below.
The council's response is No.
Yours sincerely
Jenny Cartwright
Information Access Team
e: [email address]
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