See answers to previous information requests

Please note: the format below has been drafted to ensure all authorities can provide a response in respect of their care home fees for older person care.

1. Please provide a copy of your 2025 to 2026 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. If you have not yet reported your fee uplift, please outline the Council’s timeline for publication, including any internal dates where decisions related to the offer will be made.
See attached files.

2. Please confirm the date when the local authority/Cabinet agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2025/26 financial year.
20th February 2025

3. Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2025/26 financial year was officially communicated to the providers.
Week commencing 24th March 2025 (still working through queries).

4. Please provide your 2025 to 2026 weekly base* fee rates for the following care types:
a) Nursing (Excl. FNC): £1,034
b) Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC): £1,034
c) Residential (without nursing): £956
d) Residential (without nursing) with Dementia: £982

5. Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2024 to March 31st 2025) for the following care types:
a) Nursing (Excl. FNC): £1,143
b) Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC): We cannot differentiate for reporting purposes - above fee contains both dementia and non-dementia clients
c) Residential (without nursing): £1,055
d) Residential (without nursing) with Dementia: We cannot differentiate for reporting purposes - above fee contains both dementia and non-dementia clients

6. Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2025-2026 for the following care types:
a) Nursing (Excl. FNC): £1,116
b) Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC): We cannot differentiate for reporting purposes - above fee contains both dementia and non-dementia clients
c) Residential (without nursing): £1,037
d) Residential (without nursing) with Dementia: We cannot differentiate for reporting purposes - above fee contains both dementia and non-dementia clients

7. Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage, and when this policy was implemented.
No requirement.

8. For the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of Older Person Services for both residential care and nursing care were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider. You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.
This information is not recorded and will require us to go through case notes manually which will exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours.