| Reference | FOI 2026/1664 |
|---|---|
| Description | Supported living and residential care services for adults with a primary support need of learning disabilities (LD). |
| Date Requested | 25/03/2026 |
| Date Replied | 30/03/2026 |
| Category | Continuing Health Care (CHC) |
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting information regarding supported living and residential care services for adults with a primary support need of learning disabilities (LD).
Long term care is provided to clients on an ongoing basis and has been allocated on the basis of eligibility criteria / policies (i.e. an assessment of need has taken place) and are subject to regular review. Please refer to the following link for further clarification, if needed (https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/social-care-collection-materials-2024/salt-data-return-2023-2024-guidance/lts001a).
Supported living may also be called Supported accommodation or Supported housing and is a housing scheme where housing, support and care services are provided to help people with disabilities live as independently as possible in the community.
Total placements is the total number of active funded placements in that period, included those carried over from previous years.
New placements are those newly commissioned in that period only, ie not carried over from a previous year.
Please respond using the attached excel template.
For financial year FY26, please provide the full year figure as at the date of your response. For financial year FY27, please provide a forecast or budgeted number of placements if available.
1. Residential Care: Please provide the total number of adults (aged 18-64) with a primary support need of LD in long-term residential care funded by the ICB, in the following periods, broken down by the following weekly fee bands: £3,000 to £4,999 per week; £5,000 to £6,999 per week; £7,000 or more per week
Section 12(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.
The Freedom of Information Act allows Public Authorities to decline to answer FOI requests when we estimate it would cost us more than £450 (equivalent to 18 hours, calculated at £25 per hour) to identify, locate, extract, and then provide the information that has been asked for.
NHS GM consists of the 10 Greater Manchester localities, Bolton, Bury, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan (former Clinical Commissioning Groups), who currently all have their own processes/systems for recording their Continuing Healthcare (CHC) activity, and therefore, documents are held on various data bases.
Due to the volume and complexity of the data involved, it would require a disproportionate amount of time and resources to locate extract and collate the data, and therefore, on this occasion it is with regret NHS GM are not able to process this section of your request further.
It is estimated to check each ledger would take 60 minutes for each year requested.
60 minutes x 6 years x 10 localities = 60 hours
On this basis, section 12(1) has been applied, because this would exceed the appropriate limit prescribed in the act.
Although we cannot answer your request in its current form, we may be able to respond to a refined request that falls within the cost limit. You may therefore wish to consider narrowing the scope of your request, for example by:
Please also be aware that we cannot guarantee at this stage that a refined request will fall within the cost limit, but NHS GM would do our upmost to assist you.
