From:                                          DCS FOI <DCS.FOI@cityoflondon.gov.uk>

Sent:                                            04 May 2021 10:00

To:                                                Louis Holmes

Subject:                                       FOI RFI WEF 6 April 2021 Holmes Response

 

Dear Louis Holmes

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Following receipt of your request for information on 1 April 2021 and our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as follows:

 

Please answer each question referencing the unique question number in each individual response.  If there is no response to a question, please state “No Response” or “Not Applicable”. Response requirement is provided in brackets below.

 

The CoL do not have a base rate for services listed below, owing to low numbers.  Placements are spot purchased based on client's assessed needs.  Additionally, there are no care homes located in the CoL and therefore the response to all of your enquiries below is N/A.

 

2020/21

  1. Please confirm where you have published online, your Local Authority 2020/21 Over 65 Nursing, Nursing Dementia, Residential and Residential Dementia Fee Rates. Please provide a link to where this communication was published, and a copy of any media sent to Providers evidencing this decision (link).

2021/22

  1. Please confirm whether you have decided your 2021/22 Over 65 Nursing, Nursing Dementia, Residential and Residential Dementia Fee Rates. (yes/no).

 

If yes:

    1. When was the decision made (date)? Please provide a link to the dated document confirming this decision (link)
    2. From what date is the 2021/22 fee rate to be applied (date)
    3. Where are the rates published currently online for Providers? Please provide a link and a copy of any media sent to Providers evidencing this decision (link)
    4. How were, or are Providers consulted on this decision (free text)?

If no:

    1. When will the decision be made (date)?
    2. What is the process and timeline remaining for this unmade decision (free text)? Please provide a link to any documents outlining the current process with provisional or draft proposals being considered (link)
    3. How are Providers to be consulted on the decision (free text)?
    4. Where will the decision be published online for Providers? Please provide a link (link)
    5. From what date is the 2021/22 fee rate to be applied (date)
    6. Are there any circumstances which will result in a fee uplift not being provided (free text)?  Please provide a link to where this is explained for Providers (link)

 

  1. For rates which are above the Base Fee Rates published, please confirm:

 

    1. What percentage uplift or mechanism was applied to each fee or care type for 2020/21 (percentage/free text)
    2. What percentage uplift or mechanism is to be applied to each fee or care type for 2021/22 (percentage/free text)
  1. Please provide details of the provider representative association/s that you engaged with on all matters relating to over 65’s care homes:
    1. Association/s name/entity (free text)
    2. Name of the primary contact (name)
    3. Email address (email address)
    4. Postal address (postal address)
    5. Contact number (telephone number)

 

  1. Can you please confirm which Local Authority/Authorities your response is on behalf of (free text).

 

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of about 9,720* which includes approximately 1,770 children aged up to 19 years old.

 

*Office of National Statistics June 2020

We hope this assists.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address: complaints@cityoflondon.gov.uk

For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the following page: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone: (01625) 545 700. Website: www.ico.org.uk.

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local authority, police authority and port health authority.

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Yours sincerely

 

Business Support Assistant | Business Unit Team
City of London Corporation www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

 

 

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