Disclosure Log

Older Persons Care (FOI/7722)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 27 April 2026

Dear *********,

 

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/7722

Thank you for your request for information relating to Older Persons Care.

We are now able to provide the following information:

Q1) Please provide a copy of your 2026/27 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers for the following service types. If you have not yet reported your fee uplift, please outline the Council’s timeline for publication, including any internal dates where decisions related to the offer will be made.
 

  1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)
  2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)
  3. Residential (without nursing)
  4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia
  5. Home care
  6. Day services

Please see attached files.

Q2) Please confirm the date when the local authority agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2026/27 financial year, and who made the decision (for example, was the decision made by the full council, cabinet, cabinet member, officer under delegated authority, or the policy committee in a committee executive arrangement).
5th March 2026

Q3) Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2026/27 financial year was officially communicated to providers.
17th March 2026

Q4) Please provide your 2026 to 2027 weekly base* fee rates for the following care types:
  1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)
  2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)
  3. Residential (without nursing)
  4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia
*Note:  If you do not operate a base fee, please provide the fee schedule you use (i.e. a banding or range of fees, or guide prices). If no fee schedule is used, please provide the average fee proposed during this period for each care type.
 
Care
Home
Banding
 		Proposed Fee
2026/27
Care Home
 
 		Proposed Fee
2026/27
Care Home
including
DQM Payment**		Proposed Fee
2026/2027
*Nursing care
 
 		Proposed Fee
 2026/27
*Nursing care
including
DQM Payment**
Band 2£776.20£853.96£869.03£934.91
Band 3£824.30£897.74£914.89£984.01
Band 4£843.31£915.67£935.02£1,003.06
Band 5£867.85£942.43£962.98£1,025.62

Q5) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1st April 2025 to March 31st 2026) for the following care types:
  1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)                                           £1,046.13
  2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)                     £1,137.35
  3. Residential (without nursing)                               £851.03
  4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia         £904.40
Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.


For people aged 65+.
 
 Average Cost
 Without DementiaWith Dementia
Residential£851.03£904.40
Nursing£1,046.13£1,137.35


Q6) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the rate in the question above) for the period 2026-2027 for the following care types:
  1. Nursing (Excl. FNC)
  2. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)
  3. Residential (without nursing)
  4. Residential (without nursing) with Dementia
Note: if you are unable to split Dementia from care without Dementia, please provide a blended Residential and a blended Nursing rate. This calculation should be the same as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund reporting submitted in May 2023.

For people aged 65+.
 
 Average Cost
 Without DementiaWith Dementia
Residential£938.92£983.79
Nursing£1,176.13£1,259.59


Q7) Please confirm if your authority requires or provisions for care providers to pay care staff a rate higher than the National Living Wage, and when this policy was implemented.
There is no requirement for providers to pay staff more than the National Living Wage.

Q8) For the period 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of Older Person Services for both residential care and nursing care were either terminated by the care provider, handed back by the care provider, or were renegotiated due to the threat or notice of termination/handing back was made by the care provider.  You should provide the number of residents this applies to and the number of care providers.
We have had 9 care homes closed affecting 81 people. 

We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/7722 and we will be happy to review your request

For future reference, Nottinghamshire County Council regularly publishes previous FOI requests and answers on its website, under Disclosure logs, that may provide details relating to your query. (see link) Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.   Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/global-content/privacy

 



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