Adult Social Care Contracts with the Fire Services

1. Do you currently mandate/hold any contracts with the fire services to deliver adult social care related services for the financial year 2017/2018?

2. If you do currently mandate/hold any contracts with the fire services for the financial year 2017/2018, please state which of the following services these relate to:

➢ Supporting social care needs assessments (including in hospital settings).

➢ Carrying out social care needs assessments (including in hospital settings).

➢ Interventions to prevent people falling in their home or support at home following a fall.

➢ Providing aids and adaptations in peoples’ homes.

➢ Transport to facilitate patients’ hospital discharge.

➢ Providing patient transport to hospital or medical appointments (including in emergencies)

➢ Interventions to reduce/prevent loneliness.

➢ Other, please state:

3. Please provide the information requested in questions 1 and 2 above, as relates to the previous two financial years (2016/2017 and 2015-2016).

4. If you hold a contract/s with the fire services to provide adult social care-related services for this financial year 2017/2018, how much is the contract/s worth and how many people are supported (or estimated to be supported) by these services?

5. If you held a contract/s with the fire services to provide adult social care-related services for the financial years 2016-2017 a d 2015/2016 how much were the contract/s worth and how many people were supported (or estimated to be supported), for each year respectively? I would like the above information to be provided to me as an electronic copy.

Devon County Council does not hold contracts with the fire services to deliver adult social care related services, therefore we do not hold this information.

In the interest of providing you advice and assistance we suggest you contact district councils who may hold these contracts with the fire service. Please find details for each of the district councils in Devon on our website at;

https://www.devon.gov.uk/district_councils.htm

Details for the unitary councils of Plymouth City and Torbay Borough Council are available below;

https://www.devon.gov.uk/unitary_councils.htm

I therefore suggest that you contact each of these organisations directly to obtain the information requested