Adult Services
- ACS structure and social workers
- Learning disabilities and Autism
- Placements of elderly persons funded totally or in part by the Council
- Adults in residential social care
- Blue Badges
- Fees Paid to Residential Care Homes in Private Sector 2011/12
- Equality Impact Assessments
- Budget for adults with learning disabilities
- Reports of abuse and mistreatment of adults in care homes
ACS structure and social workers
| Reference | 805.27 |
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| Date Responded | 13/01/2011 |
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Partial disclosure, part refusal under section 40(2)
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| Request |
Under the freedom of information act could you please provide me with the following information:-
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| Response |
Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Thank you for your email dated 7 January 2011, in which you request disclosure of information under the provisions of the above Act; we are now in a position to respond.
Please find attached 3 pdf documents which show the structure of the Adult and Community Service Directorate.
In relation to the final aspect of your enquiry, in which you request names of the social workers within teams, we can confirm that, although held, this information is absolutely exempt from disclosure by virtue of section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act. Section 40(2) states that information is exempt from disclosure if, by virtue of section 40(3)(a)(i), disclosure would breach one or more of the data protection principles, as set out at schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 1998. Disclosure into the public domain of this information would be against the legitimate expectations of the individuals concerned, and thus unfair, and a breach of the first data protection principle. However please find attached an excel spreadsheet containing a list of all the teams which contain Social Workers within the Adult and Community Services Directorate.
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Learning disabilities and Autism
| Reference | 805.74 |
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| Date Responded | 18/02/2011 |
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Partial disclosure, some information not held
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| Request |
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Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your email, we are now in a position to respond to your enquiry regarding Autism. We have answered each point of your enquiry below:
1. How many adults living in registered care outside your Authority’s geographic boundaries are currently funded by yourselves?
503
Please note that this relates to:
· all categories/client groups
· Long term and Trial placements only
· Both residential and nursing placements
2. How many of these placements relate to individuals with a diagnosis of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder?
See below
3. If autism specific data is not available, please specify the number of out of area placements relating to Learning Disabilities.
93
4. How many adults living in registered care inside your Authority’s geographic boundaries are currently funded by another Local Authority?
This information is not held by Lancashire County Council as it is not recorded on our systems.
5. How many of these placements relate to people with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder?
N/A
6. If autism specific information is not available, how many of these placements relate to Learning Disabilities?
N/A
7. How many individuals living in a supported living setting located outside your Authority’s geographic boundaries are currently being funded?
53 (learning disabilities and physical disabilities)
8. How many of these have a diagnosis of a) an Autistic Spectrum Disorder or, if this information is not available, b) Learning Disability?
46 (learning disabilities)
9. How many individuals living in a supported living setting within your Authority’s boundaries are currently being funded by another Authority?
Unfortunately, Lancashire County Council does not record this information.
10. How many of these have a diagnosis of a) an Autistic Spectrum Disorder or, if this information is not available, b) Learning Disability?
N/A
11. What is the total cost to your Authority of adult social care provided to individuals located inside the Authority’s area?
£119,199,488
Please note that this relates to:
· all categories/client groups
· Long term and Trial placements only
· Both residential and nursing placements
· Placements in the independent sector
· Gross cost of placement projected for financial year 2010/11
12.What is the total cost to your Authority of adult social care provided to individuals located outside the Authority’s area?
£17,439,294
Please note that this relates to:
· all categories/client groups
· Long term and Trial placements only
· Both residential and nursing placements
· Gross cost of placement projected for financial year 2010/11
13.How many registered placements located within your area are in the process of de-registering?
Unfortunately, Lancashire County Council does not record this information.
14.How many registered placements that you are funding but which are located outside your area are in the process of de-registering?
Unfortunately, Lancashire County Council does not record this information.
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Placements of elderly persons funded totally or in part by the Council
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24/02/2011
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Full disclosure
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1. For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed in residential care within the independent sector during the financial year 2011/2012?
2. What is the corresponding fee for the financial year 2010/2011?
3. In the current financial year (2010/2011), what is the level of additional payment made by the council for elderly service users in residential care who are suffering from dementia?
4. Do the local authority currently incorporate quality payments to care home operators as part of the elderly residential care fee based upon the CQC star rating system?
5. If yes to 4, what plans for the future does the local authority have, now that the CQC star rating system has been abandoned by the regulatory body?
6. Does the local authority currently operate residential care or nursing homes for the elderly?
7. If yes to 6, is there an ongoing consultation process to consider the potential closure or sale of the homes?
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Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Further to your request for information made under the provisions of the above Act, I am now in a position to provide you with a response.
1. For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed in residential care within the independent sector during the financial year 2011/2012? Fees for the 2011/2012 financial year have yet to be finalised. A consultation re: the Adult Care Services budget is still taking place. This information will be published on our website later in the year.
2. What is the corresponding fee for the financial year 2010/2011? Lancashire County Council operates a Preferred Provider scheme with several different rates, as detailed below:
Older people - Residential homes 2010-2011
Dementia Premium
A premium per resident per week will be payable for people over 65 who are placed in registered dementia care beds as follows.
The payments for 2010/11 are as shown below:
3. In the current financial year (2010/2011), what is the level of additional payment made by the council for elderly service users in residential care who are suffering from dementia?
Please see 2 above.
4. Do the local authority currently incorporate quality payments to care home operators as part of the elderly residential care fee based upon the CQC star rating system? No.
5. If yes to 4, what plans for the future does the local authority have, now that the CQC star rating system has been abandoned by the regulatory body? N/A 6. Does the local authority currently operate residential care or nursing homes for the elderly? Yes
7. If yes to 6, is there an ongoing consultation process to consider the potential closure or sale of the homes? No
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Adults in residential social care
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Partial disclosure, part refusal under section 12(1)
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1. How many adults in residential social care are you responsible for?
2. How many are suffering from a learning disability?
3. How many are suffering from a brain injury?
4. How many are in residential care (EMI) suffering from dementia?
5. How many are simply in residential care?
6. How many are in nursing homes for the over 65’s?
7. Please provide a breakdown of the weekly fees per adult according to need?
e.g. Adult 1 ABI £900 per week, Brain Injury 2 severe
Adult 2 ABI £850 per week, Brain Injury, 1 severe
Adult 3 EMI £450 per week, Dementia
Adult 4 RC £390 per week, Residential only
Adult 5 LD £790 per week, Learning Disability
Adult 6 MI £900 Per Week, Mental Illness (schizophrenia)
8. Do you have any service users suffering from either a Brain Injury, a learning disability or having a mental illness being cared for outside your borough?
9. What are the average weekly fees paid to the private sector for nursing care.
10. What are the average fees paid to the public sector for nursing care
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Further to your email dated 8th February 2011, in which you request the disclosure of information under the provisions of the above Act, we are now in a position to respond.
1. How many adults in residential social care are you responsible for? If by adults the questioner means people between the ages of 18 and 64 then as at 31st March 2010 Lancashire County Council funded 861 adults in residential care and 232 people in Nursing care. At the same time LCC funded 5440 people over 65 in residential care and 1594 in Nursing Homes.
2. How many are suffering from a learning disability? Of those adults under 65, 365 of those in residential care and 12 in Nursing Care had a learning disability
3. How many are suffering from a brain injury? We do not collate the recording of brain injury as a matter of course. This information would only be available on individual records and to collate this information would incur a commitment of resources in excess of the limit of £450 set by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 (SI No. 3244 of 2004), which equates to 18 hours of work. Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act provides that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request where to do so would exceed such a limit.
4. How many are in residential care (EMI) suffering from dementia? There are no specifically registered EMI homes for adults (i.e. people between the ages of 18 and 64). Our records indicate that there were at 31st March 765 older people supported by LCC in residential care recorded as having dementia and 269 in Nursing Homes. At the same time there were 32 people between the ages of 18 and 64 funded by LCC in residential care recorded as having dementia and 17 in Nursing Homes. These figures are unreliable as people with multiple disabilities or conditions, which include dementia might not have dementia recorded as the reason for admission.
5. How many are simply in residential care? See answer one above.
6. How many are in nursing homes for the over 65’s? See answer one above
7. Please provide a breakdown of the weekly fees per adult
according to need?
8. Do you have any service users suffering from either a Brain
Injury, a learning disability or having a mental illness being
cared for outside your borough? Yes.
9. What are the average weekly fees paid to the private sector for
nursing care. Standard charges below.
10. What are the average fees paid to the public sector for nursing care? Due to the nature of and the range of payments made, to collate this information would incur a commitment of resources in excess of the limit of £450 set by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 (SI No. 3244 of 2004), which equates to 18 hours of work. Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act provides that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request where to do so would exceed such a limit.
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Blue Badges
| Reference | 805.275 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date Responded | 18/03/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Request |
1) How many disabled blue parking badges are currently registered in the county.
2) If possible, please break this down into district-by-district figures.
3) How many applications for blue badges have been refused in the last three years.
4) What assessment has the council made of the scale of misuse of blue badges? Please provide copies of any reports/studies carried out into this issue, specifying the number of badges believed to be being misused.
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Further to your email of 10 March, we are now in a position to respond to your enquiry regarding blue badges. Please find below the information you requested.
1) How many disabled blue parking badges are currently registered in the county.
74,770
2) If possible, please break this down into district-by-district figures.
3) How many applications for blue badges have been refused in the last three years.
Figures are only available from January 2009 – March 2011. We can confirm that 2,119 badges have been declined in that time.
4) What assessment has the council made of the scale of misuse of blue badges? Please provide copies of any reports/studies carried out into this issue, specifying the number of badges believed to be being misused.
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Fees Paid to Residential Care Homes in Private Sector 2011/12
| Reference | 805.470 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full disclosure
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| Request |
1. For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed in residential care within the independent sector during the financial year 2011/2012?
2. What is the corresponding fee for the financial year 2010/2011?
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Further to your email of 26 April, we are now in a position to respond to your enquiry regarding funding.
Residential and Nursing Fees 2011-2012
The tables below indicate the applicable fees for placements made from 11 April 2011. Existing placements (those made before 11 April 2011) will continue to be paid at the applicable fees for 2010-2011.
Lancashire County Council operates a Preferred Provider Scheme. Care Homes for Older People are assigned a "Band" based on staff training levels and the environment (room sizes, communal space, etc) which determines the fee paid by the Council.
Older People – Residential Homes
Older People – Nursing Homes
"Out of County" Placements
The Council will match the fees paid by the "host authority" when funding a placement at a care home outside Lancashire's boundaries.
We trust that you are satisfied with the information provided. If you have any queries regarding our response, or you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Equality Impact Assessments
| Reference | 805.603 |
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| Date Responded | 09/06/2011 |
| Response Type |
Full disclosure
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| Request |
I’m interested in the decision making process which goes into changes to adult social care services budgets.
Could you please provide answers to the following questions:
On what date did the council launch its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
On what date did the council close its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
On what date did the council cabinet set the adult social care budget 2011-12?
On what date did the council cabinet make a decision on changes to adult social care services in 2011-12?
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Further to your email dated 27th May 2011, in which you request the disclosure of information under the provisions of the above Act, we are now in a position to respond.
On what date did the council launch its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
Q1 response: Lancashire County Council launched the consultation on the services changes connected to the Adult Social Care Budget on Monday 6 December 2010.
On what date did the council close its consultation on its adult social care budget for 2011-12, or services changes connected to it?
Q2 response: Lancashire County Council closed the consultation on the services changes connected to the Adult Social Care Budget 12 weeks later on Monday 28 February 2011.
On what date did the council cabinet set the adult social care budget 2011-12?
On what date did the council cabinet make a decision on changes to adult social care services in 2011-12?
Q3 & Q4 response: The County Council set its overall budget on 17 February 2011 following consultation with a panel of over 4,000 local residents, the wider public through an on-line budget calculator, its Youth Council, staff and Trade Unions and the Business Community. However the County Council gave authority to the Cabinet Member for Adult and Community Services (in consultation with other parties) to determine the future provision of adult social care services in the light of the consultation responses and final decisions on this were taken by the Cabinet Member on 31 March 2011.
We trust that our response is to your satisfaction.
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Budget for adults with learning disabilities
| Reference | 805.681 |
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| Date Responded | 14/07/2011 |
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Full disclosure
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| Request |
In relation to the 2010/11 financial year, the actual and budgeted amount spent, and for the 2011/12 and 2012/13 financial years, the budgeted amounts to be spent on the following areas:
· The total revenue figure spent/budgeted for adults under 65 years in age with Learning Disabilities, including, but not exclusively, nursing care, residential care, home care, day care, supported and other accommodation and direct payments for both in-house services and purchased services. · Together with the total figure, please can this be further broken down to show the revenue figure spent/budgeted for adults under 65 years in age with Learning Disabilities for those in o Residential care; including, but not exclusively, nursing care, residential care and direct payments for both in-house and purchased services. o Supported living; including, but not exclusively, supported and other types of accommodation and direct payments for both in-house and purchased services. Please provide the above figures in round thousands. |
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding financial information relating to learning disabilities; I can confirm that we are now in a position to respond.
Firstly, it may be worth noting that Lancashire County Council have pooled funds with 3 PCT's for services for learning disabilities and the information is not immediately identifiable from the PCT financial contribution across each of the services. We have managed to collate the following information:
2010/11 - LCC LD net budget - £79.447m.
2010/11 - Actual spend - £81.123m i.e. an overspend of £1.676m.
This includes LCC net spend of £9.1m on residential/nursing care, £39.9m on supported living/homecare, £9.2m on direct payments/personal budgets, £12.6m on day care and £2.8m on respite care.
For 11/12, the net LCC LD budget is £77.218m and for 12/13 £76.603m although this is indicative and could be subject to change and realignment in light of spend patterns this year. Unfortunately, we do not have our LD budgets split down across service types because of the pooled fund arrangements, as such, we cannot provide this information.
I hope you find the information useful.
If you have any queries regarding our response, or you require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Reports of abuse and mistreatment of adults in care homes
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I'd like to know how many reports of abuse or mistreatment of adults in care homes have been received by the council over the most recent 12 month period available as well as a monthly breakdown of the most recent numbers of complaints.
If there are any categories in which these are divided into could you provide and explain these.
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Access to Information under the Freedom of Information (2000)
Thank you for your email dated 27 July 2011, in which you request disclosure of information under the provisions of the above Act; we are now in a position to respond.
I'd like to know how many reports of abuse or mistreatment of adults in care homes have been received by the council over the most recent 12 month period available as well as a monthly breakdown of the most recent numbers of complaints.
If there are any categories in which these are divided into could you provide and explain these.
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