Adult Care Operations and Health

Services provided to adult social care clients over 18, their families and carers

  • Visual Impairment Service

    1. Do you offer an in-house visual impairment service? If so, please describe what kind of service is provided? (For example, is visual impairment rehabilitation provided? Community mobility training?) Yes, Devon County Council (DCC) does have an in house visual … Continue reading →

  • Adult Social Care Complaints

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I kindly request the following information on Adult Social Care support, aggregated by the Adult social care teams, for the previous three financial years, 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 for North East, South and … Continue reading →

  • Social Work Frameworks and Agency Spend

    Can I please request the following information, all relating to the Council’s recruitment of agency Social Workers: 1) Can the you please confirm the procurement framework / managed service provider the Council uses for its recruitment of Agency Social Workers. … Continue reading →

  • Social Care Charges Debt Recovery

    1. How many adults – excluding those living in a care home – were billed* for s.14 social care charges for long-term care and support in the following financial years? Please break down the figures into those aged 18-64 and … Continue reading →

  • Residential and Nursing Care Fees

    What was the lowest rate (£ per week) Devon County Council (DCC) paid, for placing a person in area for 2019/20 and 2020/21? Fee Rates – Working Aged Adults (18-64) Financial Year 2019/20 Financial Year 2020/21 Residential £521 £543 Nursing … Continue reading →

  • Adult Social Care expenditure – 2017 to date

    Provide the total and average annual expenditure spend per service user (care home patients) on mental and physical health community nursing and residential care home services split according to Primary Support Reason (as stated below) for the past 5 financial … Continue reading →

  • Hospital social workers

    Hospital social workers’ include employees registered with a social work regulator, who spend more than 50% of their working time facilitating hospital discharge or providing other social work services to inpatients of acute NHS services, excluding mental health. ‘Non-social work … Continue reading →

  • Safeguarding Alerts for Vulnerable Adults

    Between 2019 – 2021, how many safeguarding alerts has Devon County Council received annually, involving sexual assault on a vulnerable adult, in a care setting? Location of abuse was not recorded on the earlier version of DCC’s concern forms, so … Continue reading →

  • Household support fund allocation

    Information on the administration of the ‘Household Support Fund’ at Devon County Council. Could you please provide details of how the Household Support Fund was administered for 2021/2022 at Devon County Council, including (if available): * The breakdown of the … Continue reading →