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.
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.