Decision details

The Director of Adults and Health will be recommended to approve the fee uplifts for externally commissioned home care services, care homes, extra care services, shared lives and uplifts for direct payments together with approving the process of individual fee negotiations with providers of services for working age adults.

The Deputy Director of Adults and Health:

a)  Approved an increase of 1.5% in the hourly rates for the externally commissioned home care services with the Primary and Framework Providers, in accordance with the specified costing model contained within the terms and conditions of the contract.

b)  Approved the fee increase and agree the new cost structure stated in paragraph 3.19 of this report for the independent sector older people’s care homes overarching agreement for the financial year 2021/2022.

c)  Approved an increase in the hourly rates for Extra Care and the Direct Payments rate for Personal Assistants, in accordance with the home care rate increases to be applied to the Primary and Framework providers as stated in the report.

d)  Approved an increase of 1.5% in the hourly rates for home care services commissioned on a spot purchase basis.

e)  Approved the allocation of £1,480,610 to manage all uplift requests for 2021/2022 for all independent sector Learning Disability providers and £376,280 to manage all uplift requests for 2021/2022 for all other working age adult independent sector providers.

f)  Approved the process of individual fee negotiations with providers of services for working age adults, during the course of 2021/22, based on the use of the Care Cost Calculator and on rigorous value for money audits of the Service Cost Analysis Form (SCAF) submitted by the providers.

·  Agreed that all increases in fees shall be applied from the 1st April 2021.

To note that the relevant Head of Commissioning will implement this decision immediately following the expiry of the call in period by issuing letters to the care providers to inform them of this decision and updating the Client Information System to allow payments to be made at the new rate or commencing the relevant discussions with providers where relevant.

The Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adults will be consulted.

Cllr Charlwood.