Please would you be able to provide the following information in respect of placements made by the local authority of elderly persons funded (in whole or part) by yourselves.
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 2023/2024 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.
Please refer to a previous request Elderly care fees – 2022/2023 – Freedom of information (devon.gov.uk).
Devon County Councils current contracts are not set up in a way to definitively give you the answers required for this.
We stopped offering a banded fee to providers in June 2018, with the introduction of our personalised fee model. Older People fees are now based on the assessment of care hours multiplied by £14.16 per hour plus accommodation of either £396 per week for residential or £414 per week for Nursing. So for example if a client needed 34 hours care per week for a Residential placement, this would be 34 hrs x £14.16 = £481.44 + £396 = £877.44 per week. Please see attached a copy of this year’s inflationary letter to hopefully give more detail on our personalised fee structures if required.