Expenditure on Learning Disability Support Services
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information for the most recently completed financial year (2025/26, or the most recent complete financial year for which data is available). Where figures are already routinely reported or held within finance systems, please provide those figures rather than undertaking any new analysis. Question 1 Please provide the total amount spent by the local authority / Health Board on Supported Living services for adults with learning disabilities. Question 2 Please provide the total amount spent by the local authority / Health Board on Shared Lives services for adults with learning disabilities. Question 3 Please provide the number of adults with learning disabilities receiving Supported Living services. Question 4 Please provide the number of adults with learning disabilities receiving Shared Lives services. Question 5 Please provide the total amount spent by the local authority / Health Board on placements or packages of support for adults with learning disabilities who are living in: * Hospitals * Assessment and treatment units * Secure hospitals * Long-stay institutional settings * Residential educational institutions * Any other institutional setting commissioned or funded by the local authority Where expenditure is recorded across several categories, please provide the aggregate total. Question 6 Please provide the number of adults with learning disabilities funded by the local authority / Health Board who were living in the settings described in Question 5 on the last day of the financial year. Question 7 For the expenditure reported in Question 5, please provide: * The amount funded directly by the local authority. * The amount funded by a health organisation (including Local Health Boards, NHS Wales organisations, or equivalent health partners). * The amount jointly funded between the local authority and a health organisation. Question 8 Where the authority / Health Board holds this information, please provide the total annual expenditure on adults with learning disabilities receiving jointly funded health and social care packages, regardless of service type. Question 9 Please confirm whether the expenditure figures supplied relate to: * Gross expenditure. * Net expenditure. * Budgeted expenditure. * Actual expenditure. Question 10 Please provide any explanatory notes required to understand how the figures have been calculated. If you consider any part of this request likely to exceed the appropriate cost limit, please provide the information that can be disclosed within the limit and advise how the remaining elements could be refined to enable disclosure.