Care home and 'care at home' service providers - FOISA extension: consultation analysis

Appendix A: Quantitative Analysis

The consultation included seven closed questions. This appendix details the responses to these questions.

Not all respondents answered every question. Some may not have answered as they hold no strong view on the question, or it may not relate to their area of knowledge or expertise. Where those who did not answer the closed questions expressed a view in their open comments, this has been noted in the qualitative analysis.

To allow comparisons across sub-groups, the tables below present the results of the closed questions based on those who answered each question.

For clarity, each closed question shows:

• The number of respondents who answered each question out of the total sample of 136 (column “n=”).
• The percentage of respondents from the total sample of 136 respondents who selected each response (grey row).
• The percentage response among those who answered each question, broken down by individual and organisation responses and by type of organisation (rows including and under “All answering (%)”.

Please note that the row percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding.

Q1. Do you agree that FOISA should be extended, where possible, to private and third sector (charity and not-for-profit organisation) run care homes?

Q2. Do you agree that FOISA should be extended, where possible, to private and third sector (charity and not-for-profit organisation) run ‘care at home’ services?

Q3. Whether or not you actually support any extension, please indicate which of the following statements best reflects your view:

a) If FOI law were to be extended to care home and ‘care at home’ providers, information about all such services should, where possible, become subject to FOI law, irrespective of the level or type of public funding that supports those services.

b) If FOI law were to be extended to care home and ‘care at home’ providers, only information about such services which are mainly publicly funded should, where possible, become subject to FOI law.

Q4. Do you agree that any extension to private and third sector care home and ‘care at home’ services should apply to such services when delivered to children and young people (i.e. people under 18 years of age)?

Q6. Do you consider that the size of a private or third sector care home or ‘care at home’ service provider should have any bearing in whether that provider is made subject to FOISA?

Q6a. If you answered ‘yes’ to question 6, which of the following statements best reflects your views in relation to care home providers?:

a) Only the very smallest providers, offering services to up to 10 people, should be exempt from FOISA.

b) Providers offering services to up to 50 people should be exempt from FOISA.

c) Providers offering services to up to 100 people should be exempt from FOISA.

d) Only the largest providers, offering services to over 1000 people should be made subject to FOISA.

Though Q6a was aimed at those who answered ‘yes’ to Q6 (n=30 respondents), Citizen Space allows all respondents to answer any question. Q6a was answered by 31 respondents, of whom 27 answered ‘yes’ and four answered ‘no’ at Q6. Data has not been edited to remove these discrepancies.

Q6b. If you answered ‘yes’ to question 6, which of the following best reflects your views in relation to ‘care at home’ providers?:

a) Only the very smallest providers, with a staff headcount of up to 10, should be exempt from FOISA.

b) Providers with a staff headcount of up to 25 should be exempt from FOISA

c) Providers with a staff headcount of up to 50 should be exempt from FOISA

d) Providers with a staff headcount of up to 100 should be exempt from FOISA

e) Only the largest providers, with a staff headcount of over 1000 should be subject to FOISA.

As with Q6a, Q6b was also aimed at those who answered ‘yes’ to Q6 (n=30 respondents). However, as Citizen Space allows all respondents to answer any question, Q6b was answered by 29 respondents, of whom 26 answered ‘yes’ and three answered ‘no’ at Q6. Data has not been edited to remove these discrepancies.