Adult Social Care in Walsall

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Dear Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council,

Please can you answer the following questions regarding Adult Social Care in Walsall?

1. The current average number of weekly hours commissioned to private domiciliary care providers for Adult Social Care as of August 2017
2. The estimated Annual Spend commissioned for Adult Domiciliary Care through private domiciliary care providers (Based on 2016)
3. The type of agreements held with private domiciliary care providers commissioned to deliver Adult Social Care services such as frameworks, Spot Contracts, Block Contracts etc and their start/end dates
4. The lowest and highest (based on the standard daytime week day rate) charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers
5. When you anticipate retendering for domiciliary care services for Adult Social Care
6. The names of the current Domiciliary Care Providers commissioned in your authority to deliver Adult Social Care
7. The contact Name, Email address and Contact number of the person responsible for commissioning domiciliary care services in your authority
8. Are commissioned providers required to use real-time electronic monitoring to provide data to the local authority and if so which system?
9. The number of service users currently receiving a direct payment within your local authority as well as the number of average hours per week.
10. Is the local authority working with health partners to commission health funded care?
11. The authorities’ current market positioning statement for Adult Social Care

Yours faithfully,

Jamie Wake

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Mr Wake,

 

 

Thank you for your request for information about Adult Social Care, which
was received on 26 September 2017.

 

In accordance with provisions within Freedom of Information Act 2000, the
council will respond to your request within 20 working days, saying
whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges. 

 

If, for any reason, we cannot provide you with the information, we will
tell you why. If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you
again.

 

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your request, please do
so quoting the above reference number.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Fakhara Qanwal

 

 

 

 

InformationRights, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

Good afternoon,

 

I write to acknowledge and apologise for the delay in responding to your
request for information. As you know, the council is required to respond
to all requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act
and/or the Environmental Information Regulations within 20 working days,
unless a ‘qualified exception’ applies or the request is both complex and
lengthy.

 

I am sorry that in this case we have not met this timescale, but would
assure you of our best intentions in this regard. I can confirm that a
full reply to your request will be sent to you  as soon as the information
is received, however, I do have a response to questions 1 2 4 and 9 and
can send a part response if that would be helpful. Please let me know

 

Kind regards

 

Yvonne Jackson

Assurance Officer

Assurance Team, Change and Governance

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

3rd Floor (HR Suite), Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DG

Tel: 01922 65 0487

Text-phone: 0845 111 2910

Free-phone: 0800 085 6018

SMS: Text Walsall SCC to 60003           

 

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Good afternoon, please find the response to your freedom of Information request. Please accept my apologies for the delay in this being sent to you

Yvonne Jackson
Assurance Officer
Assurance Team, Resources and Transformation
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
3rd Floor (HR Suite), Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, WS1 1DG
Tel: 01922 65 0487
Text-phone: 0845 111 2910
Free-phone: 0800 085 6018
SMS: Text Walsall SCC to 60003           
Web: www.walsall.gov.uk
 
 Disclaimer: IF THIS EMAIL IS MARKED PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL - PLEASE RESPECT THAT AND DO NOT FORWARD IT TO ANYONE ELSE WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR. The information in this message should be regarded as confidential and is intended for the addressee only unless explicitly stated.  If you have received this message in error it must be deleted and the sender notified.  The views expressed in this message are personal and not necessarily those of Walsall MBC unless explicitly stated.  E-mails sent or received from Walsall MBC may be intercepted and read by the Council.  Interception will only occur to ensure compliance with Council policies or procedures or regulatory obligations, to prevent or deter crime, or for the purposes of essential maintenance or support of the e-mail system. You should also be aware that any email may be subject of a request under Data Protection, Freedom of Information or Environmental Information legislation and therefore could be disclosed to third parties.

E-mail Security: Communication by internet email is not secure as messages can be intercepted and read by someone else. Therefore we strongly advise you not to email any information, which if disclosed to unrelated third parties would be likely to cause you distress. If you have an enquiry of this nature please provide a postal address to allow us to communicate with you in a more secure way. If you want us to respond by email you must realise that there can be no guarantee of privacy.

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