VAT - Adult Care Services and Children’s Residential Care Providers
Case reference FOI2022/00824
Published 15 August 2022
Request
Q1. Has the Council paid VAT on the fees paid to any care provider in the twelve months prior to this request?
Q2. If so, to how many care providers has the Council paid VAT?
Q3. What are the names of the care providers to whom the Council has paid VAT?
Q4. Are the care providers to whom the Council paid VAT registered with a regulatory body? (E.g. CQC or CIW)
Q5. If the care providers are not regulated, why not? What care services do they provide?
Q6. Does the Council operate any care homes directly?
Q7. If so, how many care homes do they operate?
Q8. Does the Council recover the VAT it incurs in operating those homes?
Q9. If so, how many of those homes does the Council recover the VAT on?
Please also provide the following information in relation to children's residential care:
Q10. Has the Council paid VAT on the fees paid to any care provider in the twelve months prior to this request?
Q11. If so, to how many care providers has the Council paid VAT?
Q12. What are the names of the care providers to whom the Council has paid VAT?
Q13. Are the care providers to whom the Council paid VAT registered with a regulatory body? (E.g. OFSTED or ESTYN)
Q14. If the care providers are not regulated, why not? What care services do they provide?
Q15. Does the Council operate any care homes directly?
Q16. If so, how many care homes do they operate?
Q17. Does the Council recover the VAT it incurs in operating those homes?
Q18. If so, how many of those homes does the Council recover the VAT on?
Response
Q1. Has the Council paid VAT on the fees paid to any care provider in the twelve months prior to this request?
Yes
Q2. If so, to how many care providers has the Council paid VAT?
2
Q3. What are the names of the care providers to whom the Council has paid VAT?
Shaw Healthcare and Ditton Priors Care Home
Q4. Are the care providers to whom the Council paid VAT registered with a regulatory body? (E.g. CQC or CIW)
Yes
Q5. If the care providers are not regulated, why not? What care services do they provide?
N/A
Q6. Does the Council operate any care homes directly?
No
Q7. If so, how many care homes do they operate?
N/A
Q8. Does the Council recover the VAT it incurs in operating those homes?
N/A
Q9. If so, how many of those homes does the Council recover the VAT on?
N/A
Please also provide the following information in relation to children's residential care:
Q10. Has the Council paid VAT on the fees paid to any care provider in the twelve months prior to this request?
Yes
Q11. If so, to how many care providers has the Council paid VAT?
9
Q12. What are the names of the care providers to whom the Council has paid VAT?
Benjamin UK Ltd
Cambian Group Ltd
Hillcrest Childrens Services
Horizon Transitional Care Ltd
Keys PCE Ltd
Meadows Care Ltd
Oikos Residential Family Centres Ltd
Unique Care Group
Utopia Children's Services Ltd
Q13. Are the care providers to whom the Council paid VAT registered with a regulatory body? (E.g. OFSTED or ESTYN)
Yes
Q14. If the care providers are not regulated, why not? What care services do they provide?
N/A
Q15. Does the Council operate any care homes directly?
No
Q16. If so, how many care homes do they operate?
N/A
Q17. Does the Council recover the VAT it incurs in operating those homes?
N/A
Q18. If so, how many of those homes does the Council recover the VAT on?
N/A
Documents
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