« Previous | Contents | Next »
Listen
Section 10 MONITORING OF LOCAL AUTHORITY PERFORMANCE
Sections 1 to 9 looked at the setting up of direct payment schemes locally. Section 10 considers how local authority performance is monitored by the Scottish Executive.
231. There are two means by which the Executive monitors whether local authorities are carrying out their duty to offer direct payments to eligible people, and provide the support and training that they need.
232. Firstly, local authorities are required to fill in the quarterly statistical return DP1 of key monitoring information. National statistics which use this return are published annually in September on the Scottish Executive website 29. The survey asks for the value of packages and the number of clients receiving DPs, split by age, gender and client group. For the first time in 2005-6 it also asked about ethnicity, the contributors to the total care package, the weekly hours in the package, what the care is used for, and who delivers it for example whether by a service provider or contract with a personal assistant ( PA). A copy of the current statistical form is available at the following link 30.
233. In addition, from 2006, the Local Improvement Targets ( LITs) of the Joint Performance Information and Assessment Framework ( JPIAF) is used to monitor local authority performance. In particular it is an expectation of the grant allocated expenditure for direct payments for 2006 onwards that local authorities provide local support and training, both for direct payments recipients and PAs, and local authority staff involved in financing and delivering care locally (see section 9). Further information on LITs can be found on the Scottish Executive Joint Future website 31.
« Previous | Contents | Next »