Adult social care support and funding

1.How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in: 

Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.

In order to answer this question we have looked at Learning Disability clients total planned hours of care being delivered at the point of review and then assessed how this has changed in a time period. Each occurrence has been reported, so a client may appear multiple times within the different outcomes. E.g. a client may have three reviews within a year, the first may result in an increase in their needs and therefore an increase in hours, the second may result in no change and the final contact may result in a decrease in hours. This client would be counted three times in that year, but only once in the Unique Clients column.

2. How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability had the monetary value of their care package reduced in:

Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.

To compile this information we have identified learning disability clients  total planned cost of care being delivered at the point of review and then assessed how that changed in a time period. The figures provided indicate each occurrence, an individual client may appear the same number of times they have a review, for example, a client may have three reviews in a year, the first may result in an increase in their needs and therefore an increase in costs, the second may result in no change and the final contact may result in a decrease in costs. This client would be counted three times in that year, but only once in the Unique Clients column.

3. How many working age adults (aged 18-64) had the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced in:

Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please include in your answer care and support hour reductions where the reduction relates to a reduction in the care worker ratio (e.g. where 1:1 hours have been changed to shared hours). Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.

To compile this information we identified all clients other than learning disability clients total planned cost of care being delivered at the point of review and then assessed how that changed in a time period. The figures provided indicate each occurrence, an individual client may appear the same number of times they have a review, for example, a client may have three reviews in a year, the first may result in an increase in their needs and therefore an increase in costs, the second may result in no change and the final contact may result in a decrease in costs. This client would be counted three times in that year, but only once in the Unique Clients column.

4.How many working-age adults (aged 18-64) had the monetary value of their care package reduced in:

Please include in your answers both those who are part and fully local authority funded. Please exclude those who stopped receiving a package for the reason ‘deceased’.

5. How many complaints about adult social care for people with a learning disability has the council received in the following years?

There is also a previous response that may provide additional information.

6. How many complaints about adult social care has the council received in the following years?

There is also a previous response that may provide additional information.

7. Has the council made any cuts to the funding of social care services for adults with a learning disability in the following years? If so, for each year please tell us the how much funding has been cut by.

No. Net expenditure is provided in the table below:

No 

8. How many safeguarding concerns has the council received in the following years about adults with a learning disability? 

The figure for 2014 – 2015 is also provided in the table for Q9 – this is because in that year figures for concerns and enquiries cannot be separated.

9. How many safeguarding enquiries (including, but not limited to, Section 42 enquiries) has the council received in the following years about adults with a learning disability?