Respite care and families in crisis

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Dear Croydon Borough Council,

1.Please specify the number of families resident in the local authority with disabled children between the ages of 16 and 25 that received respite care funded by the local authority in each of the last three years broken down by year
2.Please provide a figure for the total cost of respite care for families in the local authority with disabled children between the ages of 16 and 25 met by the local authority and the average cost per family receiving respite care paid for by the council for each of the last three years broken down by year.
3.Please provide details of any estimates made by the council about the potential growth in the use of respite care for families with disabled children between the ages of 16 and 25 funded by the council and any funds being allocated by the council in anticipation of a growth in the use of respite care for this group.
4.Please provide any data held by the council on the number of families with disabled children between the ages of 16 and 25 judged to be ‘in crisis’, the total cost of dealing with these families and the average cost to the local authority of a family 'in crisis' per year in each of the last three years
5. Please define what qualifies a family as ‘in crisis’ as determined by the local authority.

Yours faithfully,

Glyn Gaskarth

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Dear Mr Gaskarth

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Please see attached the council's response to your Freedom of Information
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Yours sincerely

Lynda Fay

FOI Coordinator
Croydon Council

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