21 October 2022
Your questions
For the past 7 financial years: Figures only available since 2017/18
1. how much has the council spent on Adult Social Care ('ASC') as a whole?
2. how much of the total ASC budget has been paid out as direct payments? What is the total number of hours that are being commissioned?
3. how much does the council spend on care providers directly commissioned by the local authority? Of this, how much is for domiciliary care support? What is the total number of hours that are being commissioned both in total and just for domiciliary care/support?
4. how much does the council spend on the administration of adult social care? Please include staffing costs eg management, support services, finance, secretaries, social workers or similar. It would be helpful if you could break this down by seniority and then include the number of employees in each category (ie social workers = X number of employees, costs X per annum).
5. please indicate the total number of employees employed by ASC.
6. how many of your local authority's customers are in receipt of a direct payment for Care Act services?
7. how many of your local authority's customers are in receipt of support directly commissioned by the local authority? We are only referring to domiciliary care support.
8. as part of your duties under the Care Act, do you signpost Direct Payment users to support services such as payroll providers? |f so, which providers are signposted to?
9. can you provide the names of the payroll providers used by your direct payment recipients, and how many direct payment recipient use each provider?
10. does the council pay any payroll providers directly and if so, how much?
11. please indicate the number of direct payment recipients that use
Our response
1. and 2, expenditure and DP client numbers provided as unable to provide hours.
|
DP Expenditure (£) |
DP Clients |
|
|
2017/18 |
9,055,902 |
583 |
|
2018/19 |
8,252,418 |
555 |
|
2019/20 |
8,947,405 |
490 |
|
2020/21 |
7,644,881 |
445 |
|
2021/22 |
7,114,066 |
430 |
3.
|
Home care (£) |
Home care planned hours |
|
|
2017/18 |
21,159,027 |
1,426,498 |
|
2018/19 |
20,103,755 |
1,389,166 |
|
2019/20 |
21,804,250 |
1,370,552 |
|
2020/21 |
28,334,310 |
2,000,560 |
|
2021/22 |
29,702,869 |
1,727,607 |
4. £14.613m – ASC operational service, Heads of Service and below. This excludes management, brokerage and finance.
5. 416
6. 430 DP clients as at Mar-22
7. 2,151 domiciliary care clients as at Mar-22.
8. commissioned voluntary sector support provider DASL provides advice and guidance to DP users and includes suggested payroll companies.
9. caveat that from Jan 2022 as not regularly reported on:
|
direct payment payroll provider |
|
|
E-payroll |
307 |
|
paypacket |
48 |
|
David Howard |
not reportable as small number |
10. no
11. supported bank account - 1
pre-paid - 4
traditional payment into client's bank account - 106 (ie separate account client uses only for their direct payment)