I request the following information regarding placements and spending for older person’s social services. Please provide answers on the attached accompanying Excel spreadsheet.
As requested, refer to the Excel spreadsheet for our response to the following questions.
1. Who within the Local Authority, has the commissioning responsibility for care home placements for adults aged 65+? Please provide their:
Name
Job title
Telephone number
Email address
2. Provide the gross total expenditure on older person’s (age 65+) services, as follows, for financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 (actual), 2020/21 (projected), and 2021/22 (budgeted):
Gross total expenditure on older person’s (65+) services
Gross total expenditure on residential home placements (65+)
Gross total expenditure on nursing home placements (65+)
Gross total expenditure on domiciliary care/home care (65+)
3. Provide figures for the total number of older people (age 65+) that the council has placed and funded in:
Residential care
Residential EMI care
Nursing care
Nursing EMI care
Domiciliary care/home care
Supply this information by financial year for 2018/19 and 2019/20 (actual), 2020/21 (projected), and 2021/22 (budgeted).
4. Provide figures for the numbers of older people (age 65+) that are privately funded in:
Note: By privately funded we mean the service user or service user’s family are self-funding the care with no local authority contribution.
Residential care
Residential EMI care
Nursing care
Nursing EMI care
Supply this information by financial year for 2018/19 and 2019/20 (actual), 2020/21 (projected), and 2021/22 (budgeted).
5. Provide the highest, lowest, average (mean) and median actual weekly fees paid to older person’s care providers in 2020/21
Older person’s residential
Older person’s residential EMI
Older person’s nursing
Older person’s nursing EMI