Purpose

Brief Description

To approve the 2026/27
fee rate uplift for Adult Social Care contracts

Impact On Wards

Services are delivered
across all wards in the city

Financial and
procurement implications

£16,775,000
(variable due to fluctuating placement demand)

Partnership
working

N/A

 

Content

The Director of Adults &
Health:
a) 
Approved an increase in the fee rates as detailed in
the table below paragraph 6 for externally commissioned homecare
services, Community Health and Wellbeing Service, and the Short
Break / Sitting Service for the financial year for
2026/27.
 
b) 
Approved the free increase for the older adults
residential and nursing care homes for the financial year
2026/27.
 
c) 
Approved an increase in the hourly rates for Extra
Care and the Direct Payments in accordance with the home care rate
increases to be applied for the Interim Homecare Contract as stated
in the table below paragraph 6.
 
d) 
Approved the inflationary allocation to manage all
uplift requests for 2026/27 for all independent sector Learning
Disability and all other working age adult independent sector
providers.
 
e) 
Approved the process of uplift offers with providers
of services for working age adults, during 2026/27, based on the
use of the adapted Care Cost Calculator and on rigorous value for
money audits of the Service Cost Analysis Form (SCAF) submitted by
the providers.
 
f) 
Agreed that all increases in fees shall be
implemented from 6th April 2026 as outlined in the
report.
 
g) 
Noted that all future decisions will be a direct
consequences of this key decision and will be taken as publishable
administrative decisions or as written record administrative
decisions as required by the appropriate officers as per the
sub-delegation scheme.