Shared Services

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Dear Somerset County Council,

Please could you provide the answers to the questions below regarding Shared Services.

1. Do you currently have any shared services within Social Care with other/s Local Authorities?
If yes, please state with who and what areas e:g Children’s, Adults etc…

2. Please describe your plans with joint working between Social Care and Health.

Yours faithfully,

Giffard Cohen

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Somerset Direct - FOI, Somerset Council

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Thank you for contacting Somerset County Council. I have logged your FOI
request with the relevant department. Your reference number is 2702977.
If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact
us again.

Kind Regards,

Rebecca Hine

Customer Advisor
Somerset Direct
Generic Team

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Somerset Direct Reference: 2702977

Internal Reference: 130146

Date request received: 30/12/2013

Date response due: 28/01/2014

 

Dear Mr Cohen

 

Thank you for your request for information of which we are dealing with
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  We are currently dealing with
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information you have requested.

 

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working days, so we will endeavour to send our response to you by 28
January 2014.

 

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Michele Weaver, Somerset Council

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Dear Mr Cohen

 

Please find attached our response to your recent freedom of information
request in relation to Children’s Services, we also ask for clarification
with regard to Adult Services and once we have this we will be able to
complete the request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Michèle Weaver
Information Officer
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mail: [email address]

 

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Dear Michele Weaver,

for clarification for adults. for question two i mean specifically initiatives where the council and health work alongside each other.

Yours sincerely,

Giffard Cohen

Michele Weaver, Somerset Council

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Dear Mr Cohen

 

Please find our completed response to this freedom of information request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Michèle Weaver
Information Officer
Information Request Team

Tel: 01823 355959
mail: [email address]

 

 

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