Issue - meetings

Report of the Strategic Director of Adult Care and Housing

Cabinet Member:     Councillor Roche (in advisory role)

Commissioner:         Myers

Recommendations:

1.    That approval be given to an increase of 2.5% to the weekly maximum charge for In-House residential care for the Older People for 2017/18.

2.    That approval be given to a reduction in charges for Learning Disabilities in-house residential and respite provision for 2017/18 as shown in Appendix A.

Consideration was given to a report which detailed the Council’s statutory duty to set a maximum charge for residential care accommodation provided in Local Authority Homes. This charge could only be set up to the cost of providing the service.

This report recommended, and which was set out in detail, an increase to the charge to service users for the provision of in-house residential care for older people in 2017/18 in line with the increase in state pension and a reduction in charge for Learning Disabilities residential and respite care users based on the actual cost of providing the service.

Commissioner Myers agreed:-  (1) That an increase of 2.5% to the weekly maximum charge for In-House residential care for the Older People for 2017/18 be approved.

(2)  That a reduction in charges for Learning Disabilities in-house residential and respite provision for 2017/18 as shown in Appendix A be approved.