Appointeeship services - Find a freedom of information request

1) How many people within your Local Authority require appointeeship services? This includes individuals who need financial care due to age or disability. (Appointeeship is a service where an individual or organization is appointed to manage the financial matters of someone who cannot do so themselves due to age, illness, or disability.)

2) Who within your Local Authority is responsible for commissioning or involved in the provision of appointeeship or financial care for vulnerable individuals or the elderly?

3) Could you please provide the contact email address for the person or team responsible for these services?

4) Does your council currently use a system specifically for managing appointeeship services? If so, could you please share the name of the system (e.g., Plianz, CasparGov)?

5) What is the annual budget allocated to appointeeship services within your Local Authority?

6) How does your Local Authority ensure compliance and safeguarding in the provision of appointeeship services?

7) Does your Local Authority use external providers for appointeeship services, or are these services managed in-house?

8) Is there appetite to engage external Appointee Service Providers? Whether this is on a paid or on a referral basis?

9) If this is a service that you tender for, are there any upcoming tenders? If so, please provide links or details to apply.
 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

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2-3) COPAdmin@lincolnshire.gov.uk

4). We have recently gone live with Caspar cloud through Plianz

5). The team are responsible for Deputyship and Appointeeship. The appointeeship element has a budget of £250,000. 6). LCC has a Safeguarding policy that the team adhere too and are aware on how to raise a safeguarding concern.

• Processes in place to ensure we are following DWP guidelines on appointeeship.

• Audited periodically to review our process and policies.

• Annual information security training regarding use of data, GDPR legislation

7). Service is largely in house, within the Financial Services Team.

8). We do use external provision for some clients with complex needs, it is anticipated that service will be fully in house service in the future.

9) N/a