04 January 2023
Your request
Part 1
(a) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with a learning difficulty.
(b) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with a mental health disorder.
(c) The total number of adults in each local authority who are placed outside the local authority receiving care/support with complex needs.
Part 2
If available, please could the above information for parts 1a, 1b and 1c also be provided by calendar month in 2022.
Our response
Please refer to the attached spreadsheet and note that Lambeth Council does not report according to complex need.
Under FOI Section 1(1) any person making a request for information to a public authority is entitled (a) to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it holds information of the description specified in the request (b) if that is the case, to have that information communicated to them.
I am advised by my colleagues that Lambeth Council does not hold any such information on complex need and consequently the answer to Section 1(1)(a) is no and thus our further duty under 1(1)(b) does not arise on this occasion for part c) of the request.