I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding appointeeship services provided by your local authority. Specifically, I would appreciate it if you could provide answers to the following questions:

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.)
We have 9 Appointee cases.

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?
Chris Clark, Head of Service – Commissioning

3. Could you please provide the contact email address for the person or team responsible for these services?
CommissioningSupportTeam@wokingham.gov.uk

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)?
Plianz Casper Cloud.

5. What is the annual budget allocated to appointeeship services within your Local Authority?
This forms part of a wider budget and we cannot give specific figures and would be needs led.

6. How does your Local Authority ensure compliance and safeguarding in the provision of appointeeship services?
Existing appointee cases are managed by the deputyship team, we do not accept new cases for appointee, we provide information for alternative options if requested.

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

8. Is there appetite to engage external Appointee Service Providers? Whether this is on a paid or on a referral basis?
Not at present

9. If this is a service that you tender for, are there any upcoming tenders? If so, please provide links or details to apply.
Not currently planned