Trial of rapid lateral flow tests for COVID19 for care home visitors in Devon 1. The type of rapid lateral flow test or tests that were used, and disclose the manufacturers’ instructions for use for each of the tests used … Continue reading
Adult Care Operations and Health
Services provided to adult social care clients over 18, their families and carers
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Personal social care budget
Does any stage of decision making across benefits and welfare (defined as including but not limited to allocation of social housing, personal social care budgets, council tax support and the assessment of fraud within) presently involve automation, AI or algorithms … Continue reading
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Child and Adult Social Care policies
Policies/Guidance for: Children’s Social Care 1. The Disabled Children’s Social Work Team. To include eligibility criteria and which cases have social work input and which cases are demoted to annual reassessment. Disabled Children’s Service eligibility criteria can be found at … Continue reading
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Care Plans in Care Homes
How do you currently handle care planning in your care homes – electronically or on paper? Care planning is carried out and maintained on an electronic platform If you you’re using electronic care planning; who is the current … Continue reading
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Adult social care support during COVID-19
1. How many working-age adults aged 18-64 have had the care and support hours allocated in their care package reduced between the start of March 2020 and end of September 2020? Please include those who are part and fully local … Continue reading
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Domiciliary Care
Domiciliary care payments and financial assessments (means tests) for care 1a) What was the council’s spend on domiciliary care between 25.04.2020 – 25.06.2020 £7,704 (gross spend) between 25-04-20 to 24-06-20 1b) What was the council’s spend on domiciliary care between … Continue reading
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Internationally trained social worker employment
Have you strategically (as opposed to individual applications) recruited internationally-trained social workers over the last three years? If so, how many from which countries? Broken down by year what is the retention rate? Did you recruit yourselves or did you … Continue reading
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Domicilliary care rates and tendering
1. The lowest and highest (based on the standard daytime week-day rate) charge rates per hour of domiciliary care charged to the local authority for Adult Social Care commissioned through private domiciliary care providers. The lowest SPOT commissioned rate paid … Continue reading
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Meals on wheels – Tiverton
Does the Council provide meals on wheels in the Tiverton area? Our Help to Stay Living at Home web page includes the following signpost : Pinpoint Devon – support with meals. This provides information about services in local areas including … Continue reading
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Independent living for persons under 18 – providers and sub contracts
I’m wanting to know the names of the organisations that provide help and support i.e Independent Living to Young People below the age of 18years old within the local authority, also what companies does the local authority sub contract this … Continue reading