Adult Learning Disabilities Funding and Placements

1.“Please could you supply the name, email address and telephone number of the commissioner with responsibility for learning disabilities placements?

Tim Golby, Joint Associate Director of Commissioning, Tel: 01392 383000, E-mail – tim.golby@devon.gov.uk

For questions 2 to 6, please supply this information as a snapshot at the end of the year for the financial years 2017/18 to 2018/19, and where possible, the most up to date snapshot available for 2019/20:

2. Please provide the total number of adults with learning disabilities funded by the Local Authority in residential care.

SALT Return Outturns for 2017/18 and 2018/19 and 2019/20 snapshot:

3. Of the total number of adults with learning disabilities funded by the Local Authority in residential care (q.2) please provide the number that are in ‘in area’ placements and the number that are in ‘out of area’ placements.

 Adults with learning disabilities funded by the LA in residential care placed out of County:-

Adults with learning disabilities funded by the LA in residential care placed in area:-

4. Please provide the total number of adults with learning disabilities funded by the Local Authority in supported living.  

In order to report Supported Living clients, we have reported those that have Supported Living services active at the end of the period, and then those that are in active Long-Term services and have an Accommodation status that indicates they are in a Supported Living arrangement.

5. Please provide the number of adults with learning disabilities who transitioned from children’s learning disabilities services into adult’s services – in total, into adult residential care services only, and into adult supported living services only.

We are unable to supply this information under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2000 – ‘Cost of Compliance’.  This is because this information is not recorded centrally and would require each file to be reviewed individually.

There are an average of 456 children in the 18-25 year old banding for each of the requested years, and we anticipate that it would take approximately 5 minutes per child to review each file and ascertain if the child in question has transitioned.  On the basis of 5 minutes per file, we estimate that this would take in the region of 38 hours for each year, which is clearly well in excess of the maximum 18 hours public authorities are required to spend responding to FOI requests.

6. Please provide the number of adults with learning disabilities who ‘stepped down’ from specialist in-patient hospital placements into adult residential care and supported living services.

44.

7. Please provide the local authority’s total expenditure on residential care and supported living for adults with learning disabilities for each of the financial years 2017/18 to 2018/19, and where possible, budgeted expenditure for 2019/20. If expenditure for 2019/20 is not yet available, please provide projected expenditure.

Period                                                              Residential Care     Supported Living

2017/18                                                             £27,379,000                  £10,003,000

2018/19                                                             £28,606,000                 £12,544,000

Budgeted expenditure for 2019/20             £27,885,000                  Information not held

8. Please provide the highest, lowest, and average weekly rate paid by the Local Authority for residential care placements for adults with a learning disability for each of the financial years 2017/18 to 2018/19. If the Local Authority has weekly rate bands, please also provide these.

9. Please provide the highest, lowest, and average hourly rate paid by the Local Authority for supported living placements for adults with a learning disability for each of the financial years 2017/18 to 2018/19. If the Local Authority has hourly rate bands, please also provide these.”

The below figures represent a snapshot from data mid-point of year (September):