Day service for people with Learning Disabilities (FOI)

​Request

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, regarding the day service currently offered to individuals who attend Le Geyt Centre La Grande Route de St Martin Five Oaks St Saviour JE2 7GS for people with learning disabilities, and / or Neurodiversity and / or physical disability.

Please also provide any information to other satellite units that come under the umbrella of the service, including Maison Allo. 

Specific Information Requested:

A

Service User Data:  

• The number of individuals currently accessing the day service
• The age range of individuals accessing the day service
• A breakdown of the types and severity levels of learning disabilities represented among service users (if data is collected in this way)
• Numbers on any waiting list
• •umbers of young people in transition expecting to receive a place at day services 
• How many clients have residential or nursing placements in States operated facilities that attend the day service
• How many clients have a residential or nursing placement in Independent services and attend day services
• How many clients have a residential, nursing or group living placement in a 3rd sector (not for profit or charity) provision that attend day services.

B

Service Provision:

• A detailed description of the current activities and programs offered within the day service building
• Specific Strategy: Does the day service incorporate a specific strategy for addressing the learning needs of service users? If so, please provide details on this strategy (e.g., curriculum, teaching methods, individualised plans)
• Information on any existing community participation opportunities for service users (e.g., volunteering, work placements, social events)
• Staffing levels and qualifications of personnel working at the day service, including any specialists in learning disabilities.

C

Financial Information: 

• The annual operating budget for the day service, broken down by major cost categories (e.g., staff salaries, building maintenance, activity resources)
• Information on any current government funding or service contracts related to the day service
• Do you have any contracts or SLAs with charities to provide day service.

D

Future Plans for the Day Service:

• Whether the government has any plans to close or restructure the day service in the near future
• If there are plans for change, details on the proposed timeline and rationale behind them.

E

Respite Services:

• Does the day service offer any element of specific respite care for families or carers of service users? i.e. it is offered purely as respite or a short break rather than as part of a programme of skills building or service user needs assessment. 
• If so, please provide details on the following: 

i) The number of respite care spaces available

ii) The duration of respite care offered (hours per session/day/week)

iii) The times during which respite care is available.

Additional Questions:

In addition to the information requested above, I would appreciate any additional resources or reports you can share regarding:

• Needs Assessment: Has the government conducted any recent needs assessments to understand the current and future service needs of people with learning disabilities in Jersey? If so, could you share the key findings?
• Service User Feedback: Are there any recent surveys or feedback reports available regarding the experiences and satisfaction levels of service users at the day service?
• Learning disability strategy: On day services, respite or other activities
• Nursing care or high dependency provision: what is available or planned in the next five years.

Response

A

Service User Data:

*Information is not available to report the data requested on types and severity levels of learning disabilities represented. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

**Where numbers are small, disclosure control is applied to protect the privacy of individuals and are represented in the table as ‘<5’. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

B

Service Provision: 

Details of the current activities and programs offered within the day service are contained within the attached activity brochures, which outline the options available for summer and winter. These are consistently reviewed with service users. 

Activity Brochure - Summer.pdf

Activity Brochure - Winter.pdf

There is no overarching strategy to address the learning needs of service users, as described by the requester.

Whilst Le Geyt centre is a hub for Day Services, the aspiration is that as much activity takes place in the community as is possible and desired by service users. Community participation is, therefore, a daily and individual activity. 

The service works alongside MENCAP, Jersey Employment Trust, Maison Des Landes Hotel, Parish Halls, and with other providers of social care services (this is not an exhaustive list).  

There are fewer than five people who attend Le Geyt currently undertaking work placements. As numbers are small, disclosure control is applied to protect individuals from identification, and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals.

28 staff work in the day service facility. Staff undertake the professional care qualifications required for their role and grade, as set out in the table below:

Additionally, all staff undertake mandatory training to include:

• First aid
• Maybo
• Fire safety
  
• Safe handling
• Food hygiene
• Infection prevention
  
• Safeguarding
• Epilepsy
• Autism awareness
• Hidden disabilities
• Disability awareness and inclusion

Other training is provided on a range of aspects of service delivery, as required or deemed appropriate.

C

Financial Information:

The total non-pay budget is £59,544.

Of the £1,381,196 pay budget, £923,420 is spent on Nurses and Midwives pay group and £398,232 is spent on Civil Servant pay group, which includes Allied Health Professional clinical roles.  

There are no service contracts beyond what is set out in the table above. There are no contracts or Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with charities to provide the day service.

D

Future Plans for the Day Service:

There are no plans to close or restructure the day service in the near future.

E​

Respite Services:

Whilst building of life or vocational skills may constitute part of the offer at Le Geyt, the service is run and rationed primarily as a short break service, and is provided to individuals who live at home with an informal carer. 

The number of spaces available for this provision is equivalent to the maximum number of service users as set out in the 2023 Jersey Care Commission inspection report: 

Inspection Report - Le Geyt Adult Day Centre.pdf (carecommission.je)​

Each provision of services at Le Geyt is based upon a needs assessment.

Le Geyt Day Centre has core operating hours of 09:30 to 15:00 for service users, however, based on assessed need, services are provided outside of these hours. The service is restricted to weekdays only at present. The duration, session length and time of the service an individual receives is based on their individual assessment of need.  

Additional Questions:

Needs Assessment: 

With specific regards to Le Geyt Day Centre, the Government of Jersey has not conducted any recent needs assessments to understand the current and future service needs of people with learning disabilities in Jersey. There is ongoing work between Health and Community Services (HCS) and Children, Young People, Education and Skills (CYPES) to understand future demand.

Service User Feedback:

A touch screen satisfaction survey has been installed in the building. The most recent results are attached, and include comparative data for previous months. 

September 2024 Service User Feedback.pdf​

Incident and feedback reporting are part of governance arrangements for Le Geyt. Annual reviews are undertaken for all attendees and a user feedback survey will be undertaken on an annual basis.

Learning disability strategy: 

There is not a specific Government of Jersey Learning Disability Strategy. The Disability and Inclusion Strategy end of year report 2022 (published on www.gov.je) references the Learning Disability Service:

Disability and Inclusion Strategy end of year report 2022 (gov.je)

Nursing care or high dependency provision: 

Le Geyt is not registered to provide nursing care. There is no formal corporate plan for Le Geyt to provide such services in the next 5 years.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

​Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.​