1 How many building based day care centres for older people are there currently in your council?
3
2 How many building based day care centres for older people have been closed in the past five years?
13
3 How many building based day care centres for older people have been decommissioned in the past five years by your council?
None.
4 For how many building based day care centres for older people has council funding been reduced in the past five years?
For centres which have remained open, funding has been reduced during the last 5 years in the three day centres for older people operated by Devon County Council.
5 How many older people are currently attending day care centres for adults with the help of council funding?
As at 30 June 2018, Devon County Council were funding Day Care services for 322 individuals aged 65 or over
6 How many older people were attending day care centres for adults in 2013,2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in your council?
As at the end of each financial year, on 31 March, Devon County Council were funding Day Care services for those aged 65 or over:
2013/14: 857 individuals
2014/15: 639 individuals
2015/16: 562 individuals
2016/17: 465 individuals
2017/18: 343 individuals
7 How much funding have day care centres (for older people) received in the past five years, per financial year?
The figures below are for net expenditure on day services for the client group of Older People, including both commissioned provider and DCC directly provided services. Day services may include expenditure on care services not necessarily provider in a day centre. There are 2 in house day centres which are attended by both older people and people of working age. The costs of these centres are included.
2013/14: £7.065 million
2014/15: £7.638 million
2015/16: £5.534 million
2016/17: £5.571 million
2017/18: £4.252 million