SEND and ASC transport spend

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Dear Wolverhampton City Council,

We are doing some research into the value of council / authority Special Education Needs & Disability and Adult Social Care transport contracts operated by private hire operators. To this end, could we please request your assistance in obtaining the information below, for your council / authority, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:

Data request:

For the last 3 financial years (by year), and latest financial year (estimated):

1. Spend on Special Education Needs & Disability [SEND] transport i.e. taking children with SEND to and from school
2. Number of SEND passengers transported
3. Value of all council / authority SEND transport contracts awarded to taxi operators (PHV) (excluding coach hire)

4. Spend on Adult Social Care [ASC] transport i.e. taking elderly passengers to and from day centres
5. Number of ASC passengers transported
6. Value of all council / authority ASC transport contracts awarded to taxi operators (PHV) or taxi operators (excluding coach hire)

If actual figures aren’t available, is it possible to provide estimates instead? If yes, we would be grateful if you could indicate which figures are estimated.

By ‘contract awarded’ we mean in all contracts regardless of contracting approach e.g. open tender, framework, dps, or other.

Format: Please send through data in whichever format is easiest for you.

Clarification: If the request is unclear, please accept our apologies and let us know what clarification is needed. Similarly if it is not possible to provide the information requested due to it exceeding the cost of compliance limits, we would be grateful if you could advise as to how we might refine our request accordingly.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to your response.

Many thanks,
Tracey Vickers on behalf of HCT Group

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

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Dear Catherine,

Thank you very much for your help and I look forward to getting the response.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers on behalf of HCT Group

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

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Dear Rita,

Thank you for your response to our information request. Please could I ask you to go back to the relevant department on the answers to Q4 and Q5? I understand from the answer that all ASC transport is provided internally but we would still like to know the spend of this, and how many people are transported this way.

Thank you very much for your help.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

Good afternoon.

Thank you for your query. In order to provide the information you require can you please confirm whether you require data just for Elderly clients (as per the original request) or all adult clients.

Many thanks

Richard Jones
Information Governance
City Of Wolverhampton Council

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Dear Richard,

Thank you for your reply. We require data for all adult clients that fall under Adult Social Care, whatever their age. Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group

Dear Richard,

We haven't yet received our missing data, are you able to provide an update?

Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

Good Afternoon

Thank you for your email.

I can confirm that the case officer is currently working on your request and will be in touch shortly.

Richard Jones
Tel. Office: 01902 553947

E-mail: [email address]
City of Wolverhampton Council

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Dear Richard,

Thank you for your reply and I look forward to the response.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group

FOI, Wolverhampton City Council

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Dear Ms Vickers,

With reference to your e-mail below, I can now supply you with the requested information.

You asked for the spend on ASC transport and how many people are transported in this way for all adult clients that fall under Adult Social Care, whatever their age.

4. Spend on Adult Social Care [ASC] transport i.e. taking elderly passengers to and from day centres.

2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019
£ £ £ £
595,880 22,955 720,921 711,490

Please note that these are the figures for passenger transport for all of Adult social care.

5. Number of ASC passengers transported.
Currently 82 people are transported to Day Centres.

Rita Rich
Information Governance Officer
Tel. Office: 01902 550363

E-mail: [email address]
City of Wolverhampton Council

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Dear Rita,

Thank you very much for your response. Please could you clarify the 2016-17 figure because it appears to be missing a digit?

Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group

Rita Rich, Wolverhampton City Council

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Dear Ms Vickers,

I have looked into this for you and can confirm the figure for 2016-2017 should be £722,955.

Thank you.

Rita Rich
Information Governance Officer
Tel. Office: 01902 550363

E-mail: [email address]
City of Wolverhampton Council

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Dear Rita,

Excellent, thank you very much for your reply and completing the response.

Yours sincerely,

Tracey Vickers, on behalf of HCT Group