Issue - meetings

Report of the Strategic Director of Adult Care and Housing

Cabinet Member:     Councillor Roche (in advisory role)

Commissioner:         Myers

Recommendations:

That approval be given to the preferred Option 2, which constitutes a 3.5% increase to be applied to the Residential, Residential Elderly Mentally Infirm and the Nursing care fee component and a 0% increase to be applied to Nursing Elderly Mentally Infirm care fee component. 

Consideration was given to the report which sought agreement to the level of increase in fees for the Independent Sector Residential and Nursing Care Providers (people over 65 years) for the financial year 2017-18. 

The report proposed two options to be considered against the context of the Rotherham Care Home Market.  The details of the cost, associated impact and risk and how each option was arrived at were set out in detail as part of the report.

There had been representation from the independent sector care home proprietors, but there had been no formal challenge to date.  The Council had been consistent in their approach in previous years in awarding an inflationary uplift.  However, last year in 2016-17 an inflationary uplift was restricted to residential type care fee component and a slight increase on the nursing care fee component, which was based on the amount of resource available.

Commissioner Myers agreed:-  That Option 2 be approved, which constitutes a 3.5% increase to be applied to the Residential, Residential Elderly Mentally Infirm and the Nursing care fee component and a 0% increase to be applied to Nursing Elderly Mentally Infirm care fee component.