Elderly Care Home Fees
Case reference FOI2022/00684
Published 30 May 2022
Request
For persons benefitting from local authority funding, what is the standard fee to be paid by the council for elderly persons placed within independent sector care homes during the financial year 2022/2023 for the following categories of care?
1. Elderly Residential Care
2. Elderly Dementia Residential Care
3. Elderly Nursing Care*
4. Elderly Dementia Nursing Care*
*Please state fee exclusive of the NHS Funded Nursing Care payment (FNC) for 3 and 4.
Response
Care home -
Residential £555.57 per week
Nursing £633.74 per week (and FNC)
We do not recognise 'elderly people' as a specific category of service user, so we do not have a usual fee rate for older people.
We differentiate service users by Primary Support Reason, not age, and we do not operate a system of banding rates.
Nearly all our placements into residential care homes are negotiated on an individual basis and in relation to the service users' care needs; a very small proportion of our placements are via 'block' contracts with providers and subject to the fee rates negotiated for those contracts.
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