FOI003614 FOI Adults Social Care

Please find the following request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on the timing of deciding and communicating social care fee uplifts to social care providers.

Q1) Please complete the following table with the dates (DD/MM/YY) that finalised social care fee uplifts were decided by the local authority or officer for the following financial years and service types. If your local authority provides bespoke uplifts only through costing exercises, please provide the dates on which the first uplift was agreed, along with the dates on which the fifth-from-last package was agreed.

Financial year    65+ Residential/Nursing    Working age Residential/Nursing    Supported Living    Care at Home
2026/27                
2025/26                
2024/25                
2023/24                

Q2) Please complete the following table with the dates (DD/MM/YY) that finalised social care fee uplifts were communicated to care providers by the local authority or officer for the following financial years and service types. If your local authority provides bespoke uplifts only through costing exercises, please provide the dates on which the first uplift was agreed, along with the dates on which the fifth-from-last package was agreed.

Financial year    65+ Residential/Nursing    Working age Residential/Nursing    Supported Living    Care at Home
2026/27                
2025/26                
2024/25                
2023/24                

Q3) Please outline whether your local authority has any policy around the timing of its annual adult social care fee review, or any KPI around the same issue.

Q4) Please complete the following table with the percentage of social care packages where fee uplifts were communicated to care providers before April the 1st for the following financial years and service types.

Financial year    65+ Residential/Nursing    Working age Residential/Nursing    Supported Living    Care at Home
2026/27                
2025/26                
2024/25                
2023/24                

Q5) Please complete the following table showing the number of care packages commissioned by your local authority where an uplift is yet to be agreed for the 2026/27 financial year as of the 22nd of September 2026.
    65+ Residential/Nursing    Working age Residential/Nursing    Supported Living    Care at Home
Number of uplifts yet to be agreed