Here is a list of Local Authority responses to questions we asked about the closure of the Independent Living Fund. The questions were
1: Will monies transferred from the closure of the ILF to your local
authority be ring fenced to ILF recipients in your area? If no decision
has yet been taken, what is the process and timescale for this happening?
2: Please could you state the process and timescale for meeting with
current ILF recipients to prepare personal care plans for 1st July 2015
onwards (bearing in mind the assessments at the Transfer Review visits
only indicate desired outcomes and do not produce an actual care
package).
3: Will you be making any special dispensation for allowing ILF
users to continue to employ their current & in many cases long standing
carers of many years, bearing in mind some may be paid a higher rate than
what LA’s may usually advise and be family members too?
If you can’t find your LA on this list it is because they have failed to answer, although in most cases it may be fair to say those that have might as well not have bothered since few give any useful information. Many thanks to Frank Black for making the FOI submissions.
Barnet
Barking and Dagenham
Barnsley
Bath & North East Somerset
Bedford
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Bolton
Bracknell Forrest
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_12?nocache=incoming-569559#incoming-569559
Brent
Buckinghamshire
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_18?nocache=incoming-570208#incoming-570208
Bury
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_19?post_redirect=1#describe_state_form_1
Calderdale
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_20?nocache=incoming-565972#incoming-565972
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire West & Chester
Croydon
Cornwall
Cumbria
Darlington
Enfield
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_41
Essex
Gateshead
Gloucester
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith & Fulham
Herefordshire
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/228969/response/566495/attach/html/3/FOI%20IAT%208194%20LA%20Prov%2029.09.14.doc.html
Hertfordshire
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_55?nocache=incoming-560560#incoming-560560
Hertfordshire (Further Clarification of Position)
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_55?nocache=incoming-562918#incoming-562918
Hull
Kent
Kirklees
Lancashire
Leicestershire
https://axlr8.leicsfoi.org.uk/documents/5674/FOI%205674%20Response.pdf
Lewisham
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_70
Lincolnshire
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_71?nocache=incoming-562520#incoming-562520
Milton Keynes
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_78?nocache=incoming-570189#incoming-570189
Norfolk
North Lincolnshire
Northumberland
Nottingham City
Northamptonshire
North East Lincolnshire
North Somerset
North Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire
Peterborough
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closurse_of_independent_living_f_93?post_redirect=1#describe_state_form_1
Plymouth
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/229342/response/567207/attach/3/Response%20866649.pdf
Richmond upon Thames
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_5?post_redirect=1#describe_state_form_1
Rochdale
Salford
Sandwell
Sefton
Sheffield
Shropshire
Slough
South Gloucester
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_18?unfold=1#incoming-565896
St Helens
Sunderland
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_27 – now reassessing ILF recipients from July 2015
Swindon
Telford & Wrekin
Thurrrock
Torbay
Trafford
Wakefield
Walsall
Waltham Forrest
Wandsworth
Warrington
Warwickshire
Will Warwickshire ring-fence devolved ILF funding either to individuals or
to Adult Social Care budgets?
No strategic decision has been made in relation to this.
When, before June 2015, will people who need 24 hour care and support
find out from WCC what level of funding they will continue to receive
after June 2015 when ILF is likely to close?
Warwickshire County Council have a programmed approach over the next 10
months with the transfer, and people will be informed prior to the ILF
closure date.
West Berkshire
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_43?unfold=1#incoming-568198
Wirral
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_49?unfold=1#incoming-573085
Wokingham
Please can you tell me how many people in Wokingham Borough Council area receive 24 x 7 care packages using the Independent Living Fund.
-There are 16 clients in Wokingham currently receiving ILF funding however as they receive funding via Direct Payments we do not have the information regarding their specific care arrangements.
2. How long before June 30th 2015 will these people know what will happen to their funding?
-Wokingham Borough Council’s policy and transition programme are currently being finalised, so we are unable to respond to this question at this point in time.
3. Please can you inform me of the plans being made for migration of people from ILF funded 24 x 7 care to Council funded care before the closure of the ILF.
-Wokingham Borough Council’s policy and transition programme are currently being finalised, so we are unable to respond to this question at this point in time.
Wolverhampton
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/closure_of_independent_living_fu_51?nocache=incoming-565629#incoming-565629
This is the response I received from Stoke-on-Trent LA to my FOI about ILF in September 2014
“Dear A Whitehurst
Your request for information ref. SOT36660 about the Independent Living Fund
We have now considered your request and a copy of the information is
enclosed below.
Will the monies transferred from the closure of the ILF to Stoke-on-Trent local authority be ring fenced to ILF recipients in Stoke-on-Trent?
This is not a request for recorded information. However, we can advise the City Council has not been informed of any funding allocation or conditions attached with regard to the transfer of resources linked to the cessation of the Independent Living Fund. As a result no decision has been taken on the planned use of any such funding transfer.”
Disability Rights UK had said on their website that Stoke-on-Trent in reply to their FOI that they were going to ring-fence the ILF funding to ILF recipients. I emailed DRUK about the discrepancy. They emailed me the response they’d received from Stoke-on-Trent. After further emails DRUK informed me they had written to the LA asking for an explanation of the discrepancy. I’ve had no communication with DRUK since & don’t know if Stoke-on-Trent LA responded or not.
This is the response Disability Rights UK had from Stoke-on-Trent LA
“Your request for information ref. SOT34294 about transfer of the ILF
We have now considered your request and a copy of the information is below.
1. Will the monies transferred from the closure of the ILF to your local authority be ring fenced to existing ILF recipients in your area?
Response: Yes
2. What plans are being made, or have been made, to co-produce with ILF recipients in your area the transfer process?
Response: The process is yet to be decided.“