Social care support and funding
Dear Common Council of the City of London,
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following information on social care support (as set out in Section 8 of the Care Act 2014) and funding for the purposes of social care support for working age adults with a learning disability in your local authority area.
Where questions refer to ‘learning disability’, please include individuals with ‘learning disability’ as their primary support reason.
1. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
2. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had the monetary value of their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
3. How many working age adults (aged 18-64) had the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
4. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) had the monetary value of their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
5. How many complaints about adult social care for people with a learning disability has the council received in the following years?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
6. How many complaints about adult social care has the council received in the following years?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
7. Has the council made any cuts to the funding of social care services for adults with a learning disability in the following years? If so, for each year please tell us the how much funding has been cut by.
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
8. How many safeguarding concerns has the council received in the following years about adults with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
9. How many safeguarding enquiries (including, but not limited to, Section 42 enquiries) has the council received in the following years about adults with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Yours faithfully,
Juliet Atkins
Dear Juliet Atkins,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 13 January 2020.
Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.
The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (‘Explore the City’), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
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Yours sincerely,
Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
_________________________________________________________
Dear Juliet Atkins
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Following receipt of your request for information on 13 January 2020 and
our acknowledgement of the same date, please accept our apologies that we
have not been able to respond to all your enquiries. I anticipate that we
will be able to respond to the outstanding requests (Questions 8 & 9) by
close of business on 12 February 2020.The City of London (CoL) partially
responds as follows:
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following
information on social care support (as set out in Section 8 of the Care
Act 2014) and funding for the purposes of social care support for working
age adults with a learning disability in your local authority area.
Where questions refer to ‘learning disability’, please include individuals
with ‘learning disability’ as their primary support reason.
1. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had
the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 – Not recorded in hours
b. 2017/18 – Not recorded in hours
c. 2016/17 - Not recorded in hours
d. 2015/16 - Not recorded in hours
e. 2014/15 - Not recorded in hours
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour
reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker
ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please
exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
2. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had
the monetary value of their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 - 0
b. 2017/18 - 0
c. 2016/17 - 0
d. 2015/16 - 0
e. 2014/15 - 0
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for
the reason ‘deceased’.
3. How many working age adults (aged 18-64) had the care and support hours
allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 – Not recorded in hours
b. 2017/18 – Not recorded in hours
c. 2016/17 – Not recorded in hours
d. 2015/16 – Not recorded in hours
e. 2014/15 – Not recorded in hours
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour
reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker
ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please
exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
4. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) had the monetary value of
their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 - 1
b. 2017/18 - 0
c. 2016/17 - 0
d. 2015/16 - 0
e. 2014/15 - 0
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for
the reason ‘deceased’.
5. How many complaints about adult social care for people with a learning
disability has the council received in the following years?
a. 2018/19 - 1
b. 2017/18 - 0
c. 2016/17 - 0
d. 2015/16 - 0
e. 2014/15 - 0
6. How many complaints about adult social care has the council received in
the following years?
a. 2018/19 - 6
b. 2017/18 – 4
c. 2016/17 - 6
d. 2015/16 - 1
e. 2014/15 – 3
7. Has the council made any cuts to the funding of social care services
for adults with a learning disability in the following years? If so, for
each year please tell us the how much funding has been cut by.
a. 2018/19 - £0
b. 2017/18 - £0
c. 2016/17 - £0
d. 2015/16 - £0
e. 2014/15 - £0
8. How many safeguarding concerns has the council received in the
following years about adults with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
9. How many safeguarding enquiries (including, but not limited to, Section
42 enquiries) has the council received in the following years about adults
with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19
b. 2017/18
c. 2016/17
d. 2015/16
e. 2014/15
Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,706* which includes approximately 1,580 children aged up to 19
years old.
*Office of National Statistics 2019
We hope that this response is of assistance.
If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please use the following link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure : [1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is
located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/.
The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring
the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside the scope
of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.
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Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
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Yours sincerely,
Executive Support Assistant - Business Unit Team
Community & Children’s Services
Department of Community & Children’s Services | ( 020 7606 3030 |
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Dear Juliet Atkins
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Following receipt of your request for information on 13 January 2020 and
our acknowledgement of the same date and our partial response of 10
February 2020, please accept our apologies for the delay in responding to
your enquiries. We have also clarified our response to questions 1 and 3
for your information. Please see our final response below.
1. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had
the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 – Information held is not recorded in hours. Care package data
is recorded by its monetary value. To request this information, please
email [email address]
b. 2017/18 – See above
c. 2016/17 - See above
d. 2015/16 - See above
e. 2014/15 - See above
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour
reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker
ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please
exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
3. How many working age adults (aged 18-64) had the care and support hours
allocated in their care package reduced in:
a. 2018/19 – Information held is not recorded in hours. Care package data
is recorded by its monetary value. To request this information, please
email [email address]
b. 2017/18 – See above
c. 2016/17 – See above
d. 2015/16 – See above
e. 2014/15 – See above
Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local
authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour
reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker
ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please
exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.
8. How many safeguarding concerns has the council received in the
following years about adults with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19 - 1
b. 2017/18 - 1
c. 2016/17 – Information not held
d. 2015/16 – Information not held
e. 2014/15 – Information not held
9. How many safeguarding enquiries (including, but not limited to, Section
42 enquiries) has the council received in the following years about adults
with a learning disability?
a. 2018/19 - 1
b. 2017/18 - 1
c. 2016/17 – Information not held
d. 2015/16 – Information not held
e. 2014/15 – Information not held
Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,706* which includes approximately 1,580 children aged up to 19
years old.
*Office of National Statistics 2019
We hope that this response is of assistance.
If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has managed your
enquiry, please use the following link to the CoL’s FOI complaints
procedure : [1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is
located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL’s FOI
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/.
The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring
the CoL to disclose information, release of information outside the scope
of the Act is subject to the discretion of the CoL.
The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.
Yours sincerely,
Executive Support Assistant - Business Unit Team
Community & Children’s Services
Department of Community & Children’s Services | ( 020 7606 3030 |
THIS E-MAIL AND ANY ATTACHED FILES ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY BE LEGALLY
PRIVILEGED. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction,
copying, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error
please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail.
Opinions, advice or facts included in this message are given without any
warranties or intention to enter into a contractual relationship with the
City of London unless specifically indicated otherwise by agreement,
letter or facsimile signed by a City of London authorised signatory. Any
part of this e-mail which is purely personal in nature is not authorised
by the City of London. All e-mail through the City of London's gateway is
potentially the subject of monitoring. All liability for errors and
viruses is excluded. Please note that in so far as the City of London
falls within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, it may need to disclose this
e-mail. Website: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
References
Visible links
1. http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback
2. http://www.ico.org.uk/
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