Community Disability Equipment Provided to Disabled and Terminally Ill Children - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Community Disability Equipment Provided to Disabled and Terminally Ill Children
FOI Number
15599
Date Received
10/09/2021
Type of Request
FOI
Request or Question
Under the Freedom of Information Act (2000), I would be grateful if you could provide information to us on all the geographical areas that you cover, for the following two periods:* 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020.* 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021.1. The value* of community disability equipment** provided by your organisation (we require information from each organisation separately, if you wish to provide joint spending figures – please let us know) to disabled and terminally ill children (as defined by the 2010 Equality Act please see *** below) in your area.
2. The numbers of individual pieces of equipment supplied to disabled and terminally ill children in your area.
* Value to include both recycled equipment provided to specific children through services such as Community Equipment Stores and equipment purchased new for specific children.
**The term community equipment includes such items as wheelchairs, buggies, specialist beds, standing frames, hoists, car seats and specialist seating. We do not include structural adaptations, consumables such as nasal gastric tubing and incontinence supplies, IT equipment or surgical aids.
*** As defined by the 2010 Equality Act. Children up to their 18th birthday who have ‘a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do normal/daily activities’.
Response
Geographical areas covered within the 2 following periods:
1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020 – Scottish borders
1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021 – Scottish Borders
1.
1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020:
Spent £59,384.14 new items and provided 22 items from stock (recycled)
1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021:
Spent £71,446.14 new items and provided 28 items from stock (recycled). However, cannot provide a value of the recycled equipment items as it is not information that Scottish Borders Council hold. Therefore we are applying Section 17 of FOI(S)A 2002.
2.
Number of individual items supplied
1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020 – total = 76 (54 new items and 22 recycled items)
1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021 – total = 85 (57 new items and 28 recycled items)
