Dear K Huijbers,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your information request received
by us on 19^th July.  This is allocated to FOI 007.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows for 20 working days to process
requests for information. This period expires on 15^th  August 2018. 

Yours sincerely, Diane

Di

Diane Lindsay

Support Services Team Manager

Adults Social Care

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Town Hall
St Ives Road

Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1RF

Tel: 01628 68 3712
[mobile number]

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Dear Mr Huijbers, we have sent your request to colleagues here to deal
with.   The organisation we use to deal with IMCA is called POWHER.   My
commissioning colleague has advised that Wokingham Borough Council hold
the IMCA information you are looking for and therefore I suggest you
contact them at [1][email address].   My colleague who looks after
DOLs information is currently looking into this part of the FOI and I will
let you know as soon as he gets back to me. 

Regards, Mary

Mary Worth

Adult Services Support and Safeguarding Officer

Adults Social Care

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Town Hall
St Ives Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1RF

Tel: 01628 683706

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and Wokingham Borough Council

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Dear Mr Huijbers, please see below responses to your FOI request.   Please
contact myself or Diane Lindsay if you have any further queries on this
FOI.  

Regards, Mary

Mary Worth

Business Support Officer

Adults Social Care

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Town Hall
St Ives Road
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1RF

Tel: 01628 683706

[2][email address]
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Optalis provides adult social care on behalf of
the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
and Wokingham Borough Council

Dear FOI manager,

I hope you might be able to help me with the request for information
below. If you have the information to hand for tax year 2016/2017 as well
as 2017/2018 I would appreciate both data sets if it is possible,
otherwise just 2016/2017 is fine.

Please could you provide the name of the organisation commissioned to
deliver Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)?    The IMCA service
for this area is Pohwer, there is a national agreement between IMCA
services and there is services in each area that provide the IMCA service.
 Therefore if we have some in a different are that needs an IMCA we would
have to refer to the service that provides for that area.     For DoLS
Paid representatives RBWM commission Pohwer.

If you hold data on the number of referrals made in the year 2016/2017
please could you provide information on how many times an IMCA was
instructed in each decision:

We only have the Pohwer data on this questions.  We do not hold the data
on out of area referrals. 

i.                     Long term Change of Accommodation  

POHWER: 6

ii.                   Serious Medical Treatment

POHWER: 4 

iii.                 Review of the Accommodation decisions  

POHWER: 2 

iv.                 Safeguarding

POHWER: 2 

b) If you hold data on the number of referrals made in 2016/2017, please
could you provide information on how many times an IMCA DoLS was
instructed within each of these:

No of  Dols referrals 485

i.                     39A DoLS process

Pohwer        25

CCP Gloucester (now Pohwer)           2

Cloverleaf   1

Devon IMCA               2

MHM WALES             1

Slough Advocacy      1

ii.                   39C DoLS process

0

iii.                 39D DoLS process

Pohwer        11

if you hold data on the number of referrals made in the year 2017/2018
please could you provide information on how many times an IMCA was
instructed in each decision

We only have the Pohwer data on this questions.  We do not hold the data
on out of area referrals. 

i.                     Long term Change of Accommodation  

POHWER: 11

ii.                   Serious Medical Treatment

POHWER: 11

iii.                 Review of the Accommodation decisions  

POHWER: 3 

iv.                 Safeguarding

POHWER: 8 

b) If you hold data on the number of referrals made in 2017/2018, please
could you provide information on how many times an IMCA DoLS was
instructed within each of these:

i. 39A DoLS process

Pohwer 25

MHM WALES     1

Cloverleaf           1

Slough Advocacy              4

ii. 39C DoLS process

                Pohwer                 1

iii. 39D DoLS process

                Pohwer                6

Advocacy Focus 5

If you hold data on the number of challenges to decisions (formal
complaints and s21A applications to Court of Protection) under the MCA
made by IMCAs please could you provide these numbers for 2016/2017 as
well?

2017/18

5 Cases were taken to COP under MCA S21a

If you do not hold this information could you kindly tell me who does?

Thank you for your help,

Yours faithfully,

K. Huijbers

This message is personal to and intended for the exclusive use of the
named addressee only. It may contain material protected by legal or other
privilege (laws restricting its use). If this message reaches you in error
we apologise – in which case we request that you do not save it, print it,
forward it, act on it, or tell anyone anything about it. All emails
received and sent by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are
subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and other legislation, and
may therefore be disclosed to a third party. Any views or opinions in this
email are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent
those of the Royal Borough. We also have partnerships with third parties
(including Optalis and Achieving for Children who provide social care on
behalf of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead). The content of any
emails sent by employees of these partners remain their responsibility,
and are not the Royal Borough’s responsibility. All emails sent by the
Royal Borough are checked for viruses, but this does not constitute a
guarantee that they are virus-free. Thank you http://www.rbwm.gov.uk

References

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