Purpose

Brief
Description

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.

Impact On
Wards

All

Financial and
procurement implications

All fee uplifts will
be contained within the Adults and Health 2024 -2025 financial
budget. There are no procurement implications for this
decision.

Partnership
working

None.

 

Content

The Director of Adults and
Health : 
 
Approved an increase in the fee
rates as detailed in the table in paragraph 15 ii below for the
externally commissioned home care services under the new Interim
Homecare contract including the hospital retainer rate, and the new
rate for the Community Health and Wellbeing contract the financial
year 2024/2025 in paragraph 15 ix. 
Approved the fee increase and agreed
the new cost structure stated in paragraphs 16 ix and 16 x of this
report for the independent sector older people’s care homes
overarching agreement for the financial year
2024/2025.  
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 paragraphs
18 and 19 in the report.  
Approved an increase in the hourly
rates for Community Based Short Breaks Providers to be managed
within the overall budget for this service as stated in paragraph
15 xiii of the report.  
Approved the inflationary allocation
to manage all uplift requests for 2024/2025 for all independent
sector Learning Disability and all other working age adult
independent sector providers.  
Approved the process of uplift
offers with providers of services for working age adults,
during the course of 2024/25, 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.  
Agreed that all increases in fees
shall be applied from, the 8th April
2024.  
Noted 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 discussions
with providers where relevant.