Disclosure Log
Learning disabilities support (FOI/5370)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 27 February 2025
Dear *****
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00005370
Thank you for your email of 7 February 2025 where you requested:
The data I would like to request is the following, for the financial years ending March 2022, March 2023, March 2024 and the period April 2024 to December 2024 (please see attached excel for details):
1. For placements in residential care settings, what was the proportion of placements with an average weekly fee above £2,750, split by:
o All placements
o New placements
o Discharged placements
2. For placements in supported living settings, what was the proportion of placements with an average weekly fee above £2,750 (total), split by:
o All placements
o New placements
o Discharged placements
3. For placements in residential care settings, what was the proportion of placements with an average weekly fee above £2,500, split by:
o All placements
o New placements
o Discharged placements
4. For placements in supported living settings, what was the proportion of placements with an average weekly fee above £2,500 (total), split by:
o All placements
o New placements
o Discharged placements
The following questions relate to adults 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome specifically.
5. How many individuals 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome are there in the area you cover
6. For people 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome, how many were supported in:
o Residential care settings
o Supported living settings
7. For people 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome, how many new placements were made in:
o Residential care settings
o Supported living settings
8. For people 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome, what was the average weekly fee for those supported in:
o Residential care settings
o Supported living settings
9. For people 18-64 with Prader Willi Syndrome, what was the proportion of placements with an average weekly fee above £3,000, split by:
o All placements
o New placements
For all items, please provide the information split across:
o Where the care setting is “in-area” (the local area covered by the Local Authority)
o Where the care setting is “out-of-area” (outside the local area covered by the Local Authority)
From our preliminary assessment, it is clear that we will not be able to answer your request without further clarification. Under section 1(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), a public authority need not comply with a request unless any further information reasonably required to locate the information is supplied. If a request is too broad or general in nature, then public authorities have a duty to provide advice and assistance to the applicant in order to focus the request.
In order to provide you with the information on the scale that you have requested would require us to manually review our placement records as we have no automated way of identifying if a placement in in-area or out-of-area. In addition, we are unable to identify Adults (15-64) with Prader Willi Syndrome without manually reviewing all our learning disability support cases.
Section 12 of the Act makes provision for public authorities to refuse requests for information where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for local government is set at £450. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 18 hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
We estimate that it will take us in excess of 18 hours to determine appropriate material and locate, retrieve and extract the information in reference to your request. Therefore, your request will not be processed further.
You may wish to refine your request by narrowing its scope by being more specific about what information you particularly wish to obtain, including any dates or period of time relevant to the information required. Within the time limit we can likely provide combined figures for placements and numbers of people receiving learning disability support.
Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests. For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.
Yours sincerely
Colin Sawers (He/Him)
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP
Tel: (0115) 977 3714