1. Does the Local Authority operate a usual cost of care for older person’s social services? By usual cost of care, we mean set weekly fee rates that the Local Authority pays to care providers for older people’s residential, residential EMI, nursing, and nursing EMI.
Yes
2. If the answer to question 1 is ‘yes’, does the Local Authority have a banding system for fee rates? By ‘banding system’ we mean different levels of fees for a council’s own criteria i.e. quality reports.
Yes
3. If the answer to question 2 is ‘no’, please provide the Local Authority fees from 2013/14 through to 2017/18, and to 2018/19 if fees have been decided upon or predicted.
a. Older person’s residential
b. Older person’s residential EMI
c. Older person’s nursing
d. Older person’s nursing EMI
This question is no longer relevant given our response to questions 1 and 2 above.
4. If the answer to question 2 is ‘yes’, please provide fees associated with each band/grade from 2013/14 through to 2017/18, and to 2018/19, if fees and bands have been decided upon or predicted.
a. Older person’s residential
b. Older person’s residential EMI
c. Older person’s nursing
d. Older person’s nursing EMI
Please see the table available via the link below:
5. If the Local Authority no longer operates a usual cost of care, but had done historically, please provide any historic fees since 2013/14 for:
a. Older person’s residential
b. Older person’s residential EMI
c. Older person’s nursing
d. Older person’s nursing EMI
This question is no longer relevant given our response to questions 1,2 and 4 above.