Dear Jon Parker-Dean

We acknowledge with thanks your request for information held by Bolton
Council received at this office on 26 April 2019.

This request will be considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
and may take up to 20 working days to be processed (although we will
endeavour to provide the information as quickly as possible).

Please be advised that if an exemption applies to the information that you
have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with
the provisions of the act.

Please retain the reference number RFI 003152 for any future enquiries
regarding this matter.

Many thanks,

Information Governance Team

Room 120, 1^st Floor, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

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Dear Jon Parker-Dean

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Further to your request for information received at this office on 26
April 2019, I write to advise you that some of the information that you
have requested is not held by Bolton Council.

You Requested

1.         In your local authority, on the latest date for which figures
were available, can you provide the total number of people in your local
authority area you have assessed as having to pay for any aspect of their
social care, including but not limited to:

(a) home care

(b) day care

(c) community alarms

(d) other non-residential community care services?

2.         How people are currently in arrears of payment of their social
care charges (by this I mean having missed at least one payment)?

3.         How many people currently have debt management procedures
commenced against them by your authority for non-payment of social care
charges (by this I mean any escalation in debt recovery, e.g. automated
reminders, letter before action and referral to debt collection agency)?

4.         How many people have had court proceedings begun against them
relating to non payment of social care changes in 2017/18 and 2018/19?

Our Response

In accordance with Section 1 (1) of the Act the Authority has a duty to
confirm whether it holds the information of the description specified in
the request and if that is the case, to have the information communicated
to the requester. Where information is not held is listed against the
relevant question below.

            1.

(a) 841

(b) 136

(c) Information not held. Please refer to Bolton at Home who provide this
service. Their contact details are:   [1][email address]

(d) 808

2          Approx. 1,472

3.         Approx. 1,472

4.         None

As per the Information Commissioners Office’s Freedom of Information Code
of Practice, should you disagree with our decision, you may appeal within
40 working days of this email to:

The Borough Solicitor, Bolton Council, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

Email: [2][email address]

Should you further disagree with the decision following the appeal you may
wish to contact the Information Commissioner:

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF

[3]www.ico.gov.uk

Tel: 01625 545700, Fax: 01625 524510

Should you have any other queries regarding this please contact
[4][email address]

Yours sincerely

Tasadiq Naveed

Information Governance Officer

Information Governance Team

Chief Executive’s Department

1^st Floor, Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU

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immediately, permanently delete it. Do not read, print, re-transmit, store
or act in reliance on it. This e-mail may be monitored by Bolton Council
in accordance with current regulations.

This footnote also confirms that this e-mail message has been swept for
the presence of computer viruses currently known to Bolton Council.
However, the recipient is responsible for virus-checking before opening
this message and any attachment.

Unless expressly stated to the contrary, any views expressed in this
message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect
the views of Bolton Council.

http://www.bolton.gov.uk/

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