FOI003571 FOI Adults Services

I am writing to request the standard weekly fee rates your authority pays to independent-sector care homes for older people in the 2026-27 financial year.

Specifically, for each of the four categories below, please state the standard weekly rate effective in 2026-27:

  1. Residential care — standard   (2025-26: £1184.00)

  2. Residential care — dementia / EMI   (2025-26: £1184.00)

  3. Nursing care — standard   (2025-26: £1359.00)

  4. Nursing care — dementia / EMI   (2025-26: £1359.00)

Please also answer the following, which take one line each:

  5. Are the two nursing rates quoted INCLUSIVE or EXCLUSIVE of the NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) contribution?

  6. Are the rates weekly or daily?

  7. From what date do they take effect?

Where your authority pays a band or range rather than a single rate, please give the standard or most commonly paid rate and note the range. Where a category is not commissioned separately, please say so — that is a complete answer and I do not need an estimate.