The Director of Adults and Health has approved to apply the fee increase and agreed the new cost structure stated in paragraph 3.4.1 and 3.5.2 of this report for the independent sector older people’s care homes overarching agreement for the financial year 2019/2020.
The Director of Adults and Health has noted that the Head of Commissioning for older People’s services 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.