Decision Maker: Executive Board
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director – People, which
presented the outcome of the consultation on the full cost domiciliary care
clients receiving support from two carers and being charged for both carers,
thus removing the subsidy provided by the Council.
The proposals made at the June meeting of the Board were agreed and this
report presented Members with the outcome / feedback from the consultation
process and an outline of the next steps to be taken. A summary of 78 responses was attached as
Appendix 1 and discussed in paragraphs 3.9 and 3.10 of the report.
Reason(s) for
Decision
Executive Board
approval is required to enable the Council to begin charging full cost
domiciliary care clients with two carers for both carers (rather than just one
as is currently the case), in line with the Care Act.
Alternative
Options Considered and Rejected
Continuing to
subsidise the cost of domiciliary care provision for those with two carers who
are deemed able to afford the cost of their own care was neither fair nor cost
effective. It is simply not equitable
that full cost domiciliary care clients with two carers were only paying for
one carer, which represented half the cost of the actual package of care.
Implementation
Date
New clients to be
charged for both carers with effect from 11 October 2021; existing clients to have charges increased on
an incremental basis of 15% per month from October 2021 to March 2022; and with
effect from 1 April 2022, all full cost domiciliary care clients receiving
support from two carers will be charged for both carers.
RESOLVED: That Executive Board
1)
note
the contents of the report, particularly the outcome of the consultation
process (paragraphs 3.9 and 3.10); and
2)
approve
the implementation of charging full cost domiciliary care clients for both
carers on the basis outlined at paragraph 3.16.
Publication date: 21/09/2021
Date of decision: 16/09/2021
Decided at meeting: 16/09/2021 - Executive Board
Accompanying Documents: