Freedom of information response
Care for older people (65+)
Please report all fees without Funded Nursing Contribution (FNC).
1. Who within the Local Authority, has the commissioning responsibility for care home placements for older people (aged 65+)? Please provide their:
a. Name
b. Job title
c. Telephone number
d. Email address
2. Please provide the gross total expenditure on older person’s (age 65+) services for financial year 2022/23 (actual) and financial year 2023/24 (projected):
For question 2a, please provide total spend on personal social services for people aged 65+. This will include spend on residential, nursing, and domiciliary care (2b, 2c, and 2d) as well as other social care for older people such as day services, etc
a. Gross total expenditure on older person's (65+) services
b. Gross total expenditure on residential home placements (65+)
c. Gross total expenditure on nursing home placements (65+)
d. Gross total expenditure on domiciliary care/home care (65+)
3. Please provide figures for the total number of older people (age 65+) that the council has placed in the financial year 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 (projected) and funded in:
a. Residential care
b. Residential dementia care
c. Nursing care
d. Nursing dementia care
e. Domiciliary care/home care
4. Please provide the average (mean) weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:
a. Older person’s residential
b. Older person’s residential dementia
c. Older person’s nursing
d. Older person’s nursing dementia
5. Please provide the set or banded weekly fees paid for care home placements for older people (aged 65+) in financial year 2022/23 and 2023/24:
a. Older person’s residential
b. Older person’s residential dementia
c. Older person’s nursing
d. Older person’s nursing dementia
Thank you for your time in advance. Please correspond via email and provide answers on the attached spreadsheet.
Please see attached as requested
Re Q1a Exemption applied
Unfortunately we are unable to provide in full the information you have requested. We do hold the information but an absolute exemption applies. Personal Information (Section 40,2)
Personal data of any other person (third party data) is exempt under section 40(2) if disclosure would breach one of the data protection principles. This aspect of Section 40 is an Absolute Exemption and is therefore not subject to the Public Interest Test.
The names of officers working for the Council is personal data specific to them. It is therefore subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act. Information can be withheld if its disclosure would be likely to breach one or more of the Principles of the Data Protection Act. There is no prior expectation on the part of team Managers (or other officers working below the level of Director) that their names and job titles / positions would be published into the wider public domain under FOI. A disclosure made under FOI constitutes a publication to the world at large. We believe that to disclose this would be likely to breach the first Principle of the Data Protection Act by unfairly contravening their right to privacy and confidentiality in the work place.