1. How much does Devon County Council (DCC) need to save in the next fiscal year in order to deliver a balanced budget?
Please refer to this Budgets and expenditure | Devon County Council webpage.
2. How many social worker vacancies does DCC have across all adult social care teams, as of 30/03/23?
22.3 FTE Social Worker vacancies and 3.4 FTE Best Interests Assessor (Experienced Social Worker) vacancies as of 3rd April 2023.
3. How many Locum/Agency Social Workers are current in post across all adult social care teams, as of 30/03/23?
19 as of 31st March 2023.
4. How many people are waiting for an initial adult social care assessment as of 30/03/23?
994
5. How many of those have been waiting longer than 3 and 6 months?
3 months – 108 and 6 months – 101
6. How many care plan annual reviews are outstanding across all adult social care teams, as of 30/03/23??
3624
7. How many are overdue by 0 – 3 months?
487
8. How many are overdue by 3 – 6 months?
404
9. How many are overdue by 6 months or more?
2733
10. How many adult care packages is DCC funding at a cost of £1000 or more per week?
2264
11. How many are joint funded between DCC and the NHS?
479
12. How many continuing healthcare screening assessments have been completed each month over the past 12 months?
12
13. What model of working does the adult social care team currently use?
We promote a strengths based approach. We have reference to the 3 conversations model in our guidance and have promoted solution focussed approaches to practice in the recent past.
14. What case management system?
OLM – Care First 6
15. If a resident in your Local Authority area was on the waiting list for a Care Act (2014) assessment and instead of waiting for an assessment from one of your Social Workers, paid for an independent Social Worker to complete a Care Act assessment, would the Local Authority accept this as a complete assessment and arrange support as recommended in the assessment, or would a Local Authority employed Social Worker still be required to complete an assessment?
No