Short breaks/respite care provision

The request was successful.

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Dear Sir or Madam,

1. Please tell me how much funding your local authority received in 2008-09 and in 2009-10 from the Scottish Government towards meeting its policy of providing an additional 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks across Scotland by 2011. Please tell me how you’re your local authority will receive in 2010-11 towards meeting this policy.

Please tell me how much of that allocation your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend on providing additional hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 -11.

2. Please tell me how much funding your local authority allocated from within existing GAE monies for the purpose of providing hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2007–08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 and how much it intends to allocate from within existing GAE monies in 2010-11.

Please tell me how much your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend from within existing GAE monies for the purpose of providing hours and nights of respite care/short breaks in 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

3. Please tell me to which budget head and purpose your local authority allocated the additional monies it received from the Scottish Government towards meeting the policy of providing 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks by 2011 in 2008-09 and 2009-10. Please also tell me to which budget head and purpose your local authority intends to allocate its share of the additional funding in 2010-11.

Please tell me how the allocations to each budget head and purpose were actually spent and are being spent in 2008-09 and 2009-10.

4. Please tell me, In relation to your local authority’s commitment to achieving an additional 10,000 weeks of respite care/short breaks provision across Scotland by 2011, how many of these hours and nights have been and are being provided for disabled children and young people in 2008-09 and in 2009-10? Please also tell me how many hours and nights of respite care/short breaks were provided by your local authority for disabled children and young people in 2007-08. Please also tell me how many hours and nights you intend to provide in 2010-11.

5. Please tell me how much money has been and is being spent on providing respite care/short breaks for disabled children and young people in your area in 2007-08, 2008-09 and in 2009-10. Please also tell me what you intend to spend on respite care/short breaks for disabled children and young people in your local authority in 2010-11.

In responding to these requests, please provide supporting information, including information contained within budgets and related papers, council and committee papers and minutes, correspondence between officers or between officers and third parties, meeting papers and any other relevant papers and documents.

If you need clarification in relation to these requests please let me know.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Kirkpatrick, Steven, Dumfries and Galloway Council

Dear Sir / Madam

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Thank you for your request for information, which was received 27
November 2009 and is being dealt with in terms of the above Act. Your
request has been given the unique Reference 9856 and should be quoted on
all correspondence.

Under the Terms of the Act, we have a statutory obligation to respond to
your request within 20 working days from the day after your request was
received. A response to your request for information will be sent to you
promptly; and in any event not later than 29 December 2009.

You should be aware that there might be a fee charged for the retrieval,
collation and provision of the information you have requested. You will
be advised by means of a 'fees notice' and no information will be
provided without the fees being duly paid to the Council.

Where your request for information has been examined in detail and
deemed as a "business as usual" request, it will be responded to by the
appropriate Service within the Council.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please do not hesitate to
contact me.

Yours sincerely
Steven Kirkpatrick

on behalf of Alex Little
Senior Information Officer
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Tel: 01387 260102

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Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Dear Kirkpatrick, Steven,

FOI request reference 9856

I refer to the above FOI request relating to "short breaks/respite care provision" and note that I have not yet had a response and that you are now well outwith the statutory time limit. I am now requesting an internal review.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Little, Alex, Dumfries and Galloway Council

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Dear Ms Higgins,

Please find attached the response to your request for information. As
you will note unfortunately although the information was ready in time,
it was not sent. I do apologise for that.

regards

Alex Little
Senior Information Officer
Community and Support Services
Dumfries and Galloway Council
Internal: 64102
External:01387260102
Fax; 01387260334
Drop Point: 203
mail to: [email address]
Council website: www.dumgal.gov.uk

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From: Paul, Judex [[email address]]
Sent: 01 December 2009 11:44
To: Proctor Judith (NHS Dumfries and Galloway)
Cc: Jackson, Marion
Subject: FW: FOI Request 9856 - Kate Higgins

Hi Judith

Hope you're well.

Alex Little (Senior Information Officer) is dealing with a FOI Request
in relation to Short Breaks/Respite Care Provision. As you will see from
the correspondence, the statutory deadline date for the Council's
response is on 29 December 2009.

I would very much appreciate any assistance your team could give to Alex
to discharge our responsibilities, in this respect, please. I have
copied Marion into this message, in case you need any input from John on
this one.

Many thanks and best regards

Judex

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