1. We would like to know the average weekly rate you paid to care home providers for people aged 65+ for the financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17:
a. Personal care, basic rate
b. Personal care, dementia needs
c. Nursing care, basic rate
d. Nursing care, dementia needs.
These figures should be exclusive of any NHS continuing healthcare funding contributions.
If you pay a single rate regardless of needs for residential and/or nursing care, please supply as the ‘basic rate’.
2. We would like to know how many care home places for people aged 65+ you funded for the financial years 2015-16 and 2016-17:
a. Partly funded
b. Wholly funded
3. Of those people aged 65+ residing in a care home that you wholly funded in 2015-16 and 2016-17:
a. How many entered into a third-party top-up contract with you in 2015-16?
b. How many entered into a third-party top-up contract with you in 2016-17?
The response from Devon County Council is available via the link below: