Care Homes: Fees and Charges

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average (a) cost for a week of residential care and (b) weekly payment by local authorities to fund a week of residential care.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th August 2020

Decisions on the rates paid to providers are a matter for individual local authorities, who have a duty to ensure a sustainable, high-quality adult social care market in their areas.

We provided councils with an additional £1.5 billion for adults’ and children’s social care in 2020/21 on top of maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants. It includes an additional £1 billion of grant funding for adults’ and children’s social care, and a 2% precept that enables councils to access a further £500 million for adult social care.

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