Adults with Learning Disabilities Expenditure

1.What is the name, email address and telephone number of the commissioner with responsibility for learning disabilities placements?

Please see this previous response Supported living – Freedom of information (devon.gov.uk)

For questions 2 to 5, please supply this information as a snapshot at the end of the year for the financial years 2020/21 and the most up to date snapshot available for 2021/22.

2. How many adults with learning disabilities funded by the Local Authority (LA), are in residential care?

2a. How many are in ‘in area’ placements and how many in ‘out of area’ placements?

2020/2021 Dec 2021
Total 454 426
In Area 331 299
Out of Area 123 127

3. How many adults with learning disabilities funded by the LA, are in supported living?

From our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with this request, would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time.

This is because Devon County Council (DCC) do not hold a centralised record of supported living cases. In order to gather this information we would need to manually check every care record. It would take approximately 5 minutes to check a single record, and there are 1,887 records to check just for the year 2020/2021.

4. How many adults with learning disabilities transitioned from children’s learning disabilities services into adult’s services?

4a. How many into adult residential care services?

4b. How many into adult supported living services?

2020/2021 Dec 2021
Total 78 37
Residential Care 1 0
Supported Living * *

* From our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with this request, would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time.

This is because Devon County Council (DCC) do not hold a centralised record of supported living cases. In order to gather this information we would need to manually look at each client, in order to check for Supported Living. This would take approximately 10 minutes per record.

5. How many adults with learning disabilities ‘stepped down’ from specialist inpatient hospital placements into adult residential care and supported living services?

From our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with this request, would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time.

This is because Devon County Council (DCC) do not hold a centralised record of these clients. In order to gather this information we would need to manually check every care record to identify them.

6. What is the LA’s total expenditure on residential care and supported living for adults with learning disabilities for the financial year 2020/21, and budgeted expenditure for 2021/22?

Gross Expenditure
Outturn 2020/21 £31.638m
Budget 2021/22 £34.075m

Gross expenditure refers to the LA’s total expenditure for residential Care for adults with learning disabilities. We cannot provide expenditure and budget for supported living because we do not separate that from other community services at budget level.

8. What is the highest, lowest, and average weekly rate paid by the Local Authority for residential care placements for adults with a learning disability? If the LA has weekly rate bands, please provide these.

Weekly Rate Paid 2020/21 2021/22
Highest £4,327 £4,422
Lowest £407 £416
Average £1,062 £1,142

DCC do not have weekly rate bands.

9. What is the highest, lowest, and average hourly rate paid by the LA for supported living placements for adults with a learning disability? If the Local Authority has hourly rate bands, please also provide these.

Weekly Rate Paid 2020/21 2021/22
Highest £21.92 £22.28
Lowest £15.54 £15.81
Average £17.52 £18.00

DCC does not have hourly rate bands.