Care Homes and Home Care Services: Fees and Charges
(asked on 28th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a regionally-adjusted minimum fee to be paid by local authorities for the provision of (a) domiciliary care and (b) care in care homes.
We expect local authorities to identify and pay an appropriate rate for adult social care in their local areas, taking into account relevant factors. In the interest of transparency, we publish data on the fees paid in different local authority areas. Our latest publication was in February 2020 and is available at the following link:
To assist local authorities, we have made an additional £1.5 billion available for adult and children’s social care in 2020-21. This consists of £1 billion of grant funding for adult and children’s social care, and a 2% precept which will give councils access to £500 million for adult social care. In response to COVID-19 we have provided local authorities with £3.2 billion to support them in the provision of public services, including adult social care. We have also announced the £600 million Infection Control Fund in order to support care providers to reduce the rate of transmission in and between care homes.