FOI request (FOI-72123652)

Please can you send me the answers to the following questions?

• Do you provide or commission social care? Yes or No?

• If you do provide social care, how many people in your area are in receipt of services relating to social care? What percentage of them are adults with learning disabilities? Please state if you do not hold this information.

• Do you use outcomes based commissioning, otherwise known as payment by results? If yes, please state in what sectors? Alternatively please state if you do not hold this information.

• Have you reduced the total hours commissioned for providing care for adults with learning disabilities? Please answer either yes or no.  If answering yes, please also state by what percentage over the last five years that care for adults with learning disabilities has been reduced. Please state if you do not hold this information.

• Have you increased the total hours commissioned for providing care for adults with learning disabilities? Please answer either yes or no.  If answering yes, please state by what percentage over the last five years the total hours spent on care for adults with learning disabilities has been increased? Please state if you do not hold this information.

• How many contracts have been handed back by learning disability providers over the last five years? What was the reason for the contract being handed back? Please say if you do not hold this information.

• How many adults with learning disabilities in your area are in receipt of individual budgets, direct payments or Individual Service Funds? Please say if you do not hold this information.

• As an employer, are you currently accredited

• with Living Wage Foundation, London Living Wage or other regional variation, which pays staff a wage above the government’s National Living Wage?