Learning disability clients and supported living

1) How many long-term hospital placements for people from the County Council with a learning Disability are there?

2) How many of the people in question 1 does the Council anticipate will return to local community living at some point in the future?

3) How may out of County Council placements are the County Council paying for a) people with a Learning Disability and
b) people with mental health difficulties?

a) 119 (as of 30/06/2020)

b) 75 (as of 30/06/2020)

4) What plans are in place to bring these placements back into the County Council?

The Specialist placement Team allocate a Senior Social Worker (SSW) to work alongside Nurses in the Individual Patient Placement (IPP) team to progress discharge back to Devon or chosen Community to be near family and friends. Specialist Placement Team (SPT) and IPP attend Care Programme Approach (CPA) meetings managers hearings and Mental Health Tribunals to feedback progression towards discharge plans. Enhanced brokerage is used to identify providers with necessary skills to meet complex needs. Individual Service Design is commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) to inform person centred planning. The Transforming Care Grant can be access to purchase property to be rented to an individual via Housing Association where and individual requires singleton placement. Once provider and accommodation are identified, transition to new placement progresses. Core groups which include clinicians, SSW, family, support provider and the individual if they wish are convened. The focus of this is to plan in detail the transition and ensure that a robust plan is in place and receiving health and social care teams are fully engaged. The SPT SSW will then continue to monitor for three months to ensure robust handover to local team is complete.

5) How many service users have no identified independent or supported living home placement in the County Council at the present time?

We do not hold this information in an easily reportable format, it would require a manual review of the case files of thousands of service users, each one requiring several minutes, making a total time required in excess of the 18 hours allowed under the Freedom of Information Act 2002 Section 12.

6) How many of the service users require flat access or mobility adaptations to support them?

We may hold this information but it would be included in some client assessments but we would have to manually examine over four thousand of them, even if each one took only ten minutes that would mean a total of nearly 700 hours, well in excess of the 18 hours allowed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Section 12

7) How many individuals with learning disabilities between the ages of 16 and 18 are supported by the County Council?

We may hold this information but it would be included in some client assessments but we would have to manually examine over thousand of them, each one taking minutes, meaning a total time of hours, well in excess of the 18 hours allowed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Section 12.

8) How many service users with a learning disability or a physical disability are expected to need independent living accommodation in 2021?

We do not hold this information.

9) How many service users with a learning disability or a physical disability are expected to need independent living accommodation in 2022?

We do not hold this information.

10) How many service users with a learning disability or a physical disability are expected to need independent accommodation in 2023?

We do not hold this information.

11) How many new homes have already been identified for those needing some form of supported living accommodation in 2021?

Devon County Council does not hold this information, new homes for supported living are the responsibility of District and Unitary Councils, please contact them directly using the information on the link provided.

12) How many new homes have already been identified for those needing some form of supported living accommodation in 2022?

13) How many homes have already been identified for those needing some form of supported living accommodation in 2023?