4. BREAKDOWN OF SPENDING PROGRAMME
(continued)
4.6.6 What proportion of (a) contact
hours of home help/care and (b) supported residential care was
purchased by local authorities from the independent sectors, nationally,
by region and by local authority, in the latest year for which
data are available? Could the Department comment on these data?
(Q61)
ANSWER
1. Table 61 shows for each authority
the percentage contribution of the independent sector in respect
of two main elements of social services for adults (contact hours
of home help/care and the percentage of local authority supported
residents in independent sector residential care homes). Councils
are continuing to make increased use of the independent sector.
2. For England as a whole, the independent
sector provided 73% of the total contact hours of home help/care
in 2005, compared with 69% in 2004 and 2% in 1992, prior to the
introduction of the Community Care Reforms in 1993. Use of the
independent sector varies considerably between authorities and
between services within authorities. 9% of authorities have less
than 50% of their home help/care services provided by the independent
sector and 3% of authorities have all their provision from the
independent sector. The variations in the use of the independent
sector may reflect historical patterns of provision, local needs
and local political priorities.
3. Local authorities place and financially
support significant numbers (84% of all supported residents in
residential care) of clients in independent sector residential
care homes. This represents a slight increase on the 2004 figure
of 83%. Over the last few years a substantial number of authorities
have transferred some of their care homes to independent ownership.
There is some variation in the use of the independent sector across
local authorities. All councils have more than 50% of their supported
residents in independent sector homes; of these 4 have all supported
residents in such homes.
Table 61
PERCENTAGE OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ADULTS
WHICH ARE PURCHASED BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY FROM THE INDEPENDENT
SECTOR: ENGLAND: 2005 (1)
|
| Government Office region and local authority
| Contact hours of home help/care %
| Supported residents in residential care (2) (3) (4) %
|
|
| ENGLAND | 73.4
| 84.3 |
| EASTERN | 83.0
| 89.3 |
| Bedfordshire | 75.2
| 96.8 |
| Cambridgeshire | 89.2
| 99.9 |
| Essex | 91.8
| 95.1 |
| Hertfordshire | 100.0
| 99.6 |
| Luton | 62.2
| 58.8 |
| Norfolk | 47.6
| 82.1 |
| Peterborough | 91.6
| 61.6 |
| Southend | 88.8
| 92.2 |
| Suffolk | 74.0
| 77.1 |
| Thurrock | 81.1
| 75.7 |
| EAST MIDLANDS | 65.4
| 79.7 |
| Derby | 52.7
| 65.8 |
| Derbyshire | 41.7
| 71.0 |
| Leicester | 81.1
| 79.2 |
| Leicestershire | 84.8
| 78.6 |
| Lincolnshire | 72.7
| 91.9 |
| Northamptonshire | 73.1
| 76.7 |
| Nottingham | 75.4
| 83.8 |
| Nottinghamshire | 71.6
| 81.6 |
| Rutland | 46.0
| 77.7 |
| NORTH EAST | 65.7
| 87.9 |
| Darlington | 63.8
| 99.8 |
| Durham | 76.4
| 89.5 |
| Gateshead | 34.6
| 86.1 |
| Hartlepool | 78.7
| 99.0 |
| Middlesbrough | 76.2
| 85.3 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 81.8
| 87.9 |
| North Tyneside | 37.2
| 93.1 |
| Northumberland | 63.3
| 90.5 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 71.1
| 74.2 |
| South Tyneside | 66.2
| 87.5 |
| Stockton on Tees | 73.8
| 84.0 |
| Sunderland | 47.7
| 80.9 |
| NORTH WEST | 70.7
| 84.5 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 63.8
| 76.8 |
| Blackpool | 59.8
| 90.4 |
| Bolton | 51.1
| 74.0 |
| Bury | 64.2
| 78.0 |
| Cheshire | 51.0
| 88.9 |
| Cumbria | 58.3
| 61.8 |
| Halton | 84.2
| 85.5 |
| Knowsley | 78.8
| 98.6 |
| Lancashire | 94.0
| 86.7 |
| Liverpool | 76.9
| 93.8 |
| Manchester | 74.5
| 97.3 |
| Oldham | 39.0
| 77.0 |
| Rochdale | 74.3
| 90.5 |
| Salford | 73.5
| 93.1 |
| Sefton | 81.5
| 93.7 |
| St Helens | 81.7
| 68.3 |
| Stockport | 47.9
| 98.5 |
| Tameside | 59.7
| 84.1 |
| Trafford | 53.0
| 63.0 |
| Warrington | 80.6
| 85.3 |
| Wigan | 45.1
| 92.8 |
| Wirral | 81.3
| 72.6 |
| LONDON | 82.8
| 86.9 |
| Barking & Dagenham | 78.5
| 77.4 |
| Barnet | 100.0
| 96.6 |
| Bexley | 99.4
| 99.9 |
| Brent | 100.0
| 75.3 |
| Bromley | 61.8
| .. |
| Camden | 80.9
| 83.5 |
| City of London | 40.0
| 100.0 |
| Croydon | 82.3
| 79.6 |
| Ealing | 81.6
| 86.1 |
| Enfield | 80.5
| 86.5 |
| Greenwich | 88.6
| 88.3 |
| Hackney | 52.1
| 95.3 |
| Hammersmith & Fulham | 76.6
| 90.6 |
| Haringey | 71.9
| 71.2 |
| Harrow | 97.6
| 97.5 |
| Havering | 82.0
| 79.0 |
| Hillingdon | 81.2
| 89.0 |
| Hounslow | 77.8
| 79.4 |
| Islington | 88.7
| 88.2 |
| Kensington & Chelsea | 85.3
| 82.9 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 70.3
| 72.7 |
| Lambeth | 100.0
| 96.1 |
| Lewisham | 86.7
| 100.0 |
| Merton | 78.8
| 94.3 |
| Newham | 83.6
| 93.0 |
| Redbridge | 92.2
| 94.5 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 80.4
| 95.1 |
| Southwark | 100.0
| 100.0 |
| Sutton | 77.1
| 82.3 |
| Tower Hamlets | 72.1
| 99.2 |
| Waltham Forest | 59.5
| 63.0 |
| Wandsworth | 76.1
| 90.0 |
| Westminster | 98.9
| 90.5 |
| SOUTH EAST | 80.5
| 84.6 |
| Bracknell Forest | 78.3
| 69.3 |
| Brighton & Hove | 90.1
| 92.2 |
| Buckinghamshire | 72.0
| 96.3 |
| East Sussex | 88.8
| 91.7 |
| Hampshire | 81.9
| 69.8 |
| Isle of Wight | 64.6
| 94.4 |
| Kent | 81.5
| 91.3 |
| Medway Towns | 94.9
| 79.8 |
| Milton Keynes | 62.7
| 93.7 |
| Oxfordshire | 70.1
| 100.0 |
| Portsmouth | 85.7
| 64.8 |
| Reading | 60.3
| 58.7 |
| Slough | 62.0
| 58.1 |
| Southampton | 83.3
| 75.0 |
| Surrey | 68.2
| 88.4 |
| West Berkshire | 83.0
| 70.8 |
| West Sussex | 65.4
| 80.9 |
| Windsor & Maidenhead | 69.4
| 80.1 |
| Wokingham | 77.1
| 76.0 |
| SOUTH WEST | 68.6
| 87.0 |
| Bath & N E Somerset | 62.0
| 74.1 |
| Bournemouth | 76.5
| 96.9 |
| Bristol | 39.6
| 63.5 |
| Cornwall | 70.2
| 98.5 |
| Devon | 70.1
| 84.7 |
| Dorset | 58.0
| 75.8 |
| Gloucestershire | 79.0
| 92.5 |
| Isles of Scilly | 74.4
| 50.0 |
| North Somerset | 72.4
| 98.2 |
| Plymouth | 87.1
| 87.7 |
| Poole | 73.9
| 93.5 |
| Somerset | 50.3
| 89.3 |
| South Gloucestershire | 67.6
| 72.4 |
| Swindon | 77.2
| 79.3 |
| Torbay | 81.4
| 94.7 |
| Wiltshire | 87.4
| 95.2 |
| WEST MIDLANDS | 72.8
| 76.3 |
| Birmingham | 66.7
| 62.1 |
| Coventry | 76.9
| 86.9 |
| Dudley | 39.2
| 79.9 |
| Herefordshire | 87.2
| 94.5 |
| Sandwell | 81.6
| 72.4 |
| Shropshire | 87.7
| 92.0 |
| Solihull | 79.8
| 92.6 |
| Staffordshire | 62.1
| 72.5 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 81.0
| 59.8 |
| The Wrekin | 85.6
| 93.7 |
| Walsall | 91.0
| 69.9 |
| Warwickshire | 73.6
| 82.6 |
| Wolverhampton | 85.2
| 67.6 |
| Worcestershire | 62.3
| 93.6 |
| YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER | 60.7
| 82.3 |
| Barnsley | 60.0
| 92.5 |
| Bradford | 61.0
| 75.8 |
| Calderdale | 67.0
| 91.6 |
| Doncaster | 57.2
| 75.8 |
| East Riding | 86.2
| 96.0 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | 70.6
| 91.7 |
| Kirklees | 53.6
| 82.9 |
| Leeds | 41.3
| 66.8 |
| N E Lincolnshire | 69.1
| 95.8 |
| North Lincolnshire | 76.5
| 93.6 |
| North Yorkshire | 68.3
| 67.8 |
| Rotherham | 59.6
| 79.6 |
| Sheffield | 62.8
| 86.9 |
| Wakefield | 54.4
| 84.5 |
| York | 55.4
| 59.9 |
|
Source: HH1 return for homecare and the SR1 return
for Supported Residents information.
Footnotes:
1. Data collected on Information Centre (IC) annual returns
HH1 (home help) for a survey week during September 2005, and SR1
(supported residents) as at 31 March 2005.
2. These figures do not include clients supported by local
authorities in nursing care homes, which are all in the independent
sector, or clients supported in any unstaffed homes.
3. Includes residents supported in other authorities.
4. Data includes clients formerly in receipt of preserved
rights and Boyd Loophole residents.
4.6.7 Could the Department comment on the replacement
of Formula Spending Shares for Personal Social Services with Relative
Needs Formula calculations? (Q62)
ANSWER
1. Responsibility for the administration of the general
formula grant resides with the Department for Communities and
Local Government.
2. As some elements of the previous grant distribution
system were misinterpreted as targets for council spending and
council tax levels, central government will use a new method of
allocating Formula Grant from 2006-07. This new allocation model
contains four funding blocks: the central allocation, relative
needs amount, relative resource amount and floor damping blocks.
3. The new Grant Distribution formulae concentrates on
the allocation of actual grant to local authorities, without the
use of misleading assumptions about councils' budget and council
tax levels.
4. The Government have always been clear that the Grant
Distribution System simply aims to distribute grant, not to pre-empt
councils' budgeting decisions. We have therefore made sure that
authorities' grant allocations have not changed simply as a result
of the introduction of the new distribution system.
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