Fee levels were agreed for 2016 -17 as
follows:
1. The fee levels for care homes for older people will be:
Residential £499.73
Nursing £490.28
2. A 1% inflationary uplift will be paid to those providers of
residential or nursing care for older people whose current fee
rates are above the proposed new rates
3. An inflationary uplift of 3% will be paid to specialist care
homes
4. An hourly increase will be paid to domiciliary care providers of
60p an hour
5. A 3.3% fee uplift will be paid for other non-regulated
contracts
6. For out of county placements we will honour an uplift agreed by
the host
authority where they have undertaken an Actual Cost of Care
exercise, and will
consider individual business cases where there is no Actual Cost of
Care exercise in
place
7. Letter to the Independent Care Group to follow up on issues
raised