Please provide data on the average fee that Devon council paid to external home care providers per hour of care for each quarter from 2014 Q2 to 2019 Q1? Please only include home care providers who provide care for those 18 and over. Please include all fees paid to for-profit or not-for-profit providers, but do not include any services provided in-house by the council.
Please provide data for each financial year from 2014-15 to 2018-19 in the following format:
Financial year Average fee to external home care providers per hour of care (£)
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
We hold Average Rates per hour on a snapshot date basis.
Averages provided are Daytime Personal Care Hourly Rates for Older People on the snapshot date for 2014-15.
We do not hold analysis of home care hourly rates prior to November 2015.
| Financial Year | Snapshot Date | Average fee to external home care providers per hour of care (£) |
| 2015-16 | 30/03/2016 | £15.76 |
| 2016-17 | 28/03/2017 | £17.29 |
| 2017-18 | 27/03/2018 | £18.28 |
| 2018-19 | 01/03/2019 | £19.13 |