Oxfordshire County Council Adult Social Care: Proposed fee uplifts for 2023/24 consultation

About this consultation

Each year the council reviews its fees and payments for providers of adult social care and support services.

We are now undertaking an annual review of prices paid to our contracted care providers and we want your views on the inputs that should be included in our decision making.

We will take the views expressed in this consultation, alongside other considerations including sustainability and value for money when determine the final uplift and ceiling prices for 2023/24, which will start on 1 April 2023.

Introduction

The services that contracted providers deliver within Oxfordshire play an important role in helping to meet the needs of vulnerable adults and supporting the social care and health economies in the county. The Care Act (2014) places a duty on local authorities to promote the efficient and effective operation of the market for adult care and support as a whole and to ensure that there is sufficient capacity within the social care market to meet its current and future commissioning requirements.

We are now undertaking an annual review of prices paid to our contracted care providers and we want your views on the inputs that should be included in our decision making.

In setting our rate for 2023/24 we propose to look at the following inputs:

• Information from ADASS and LGA
• The announced increase in the National Living Wage,
• Inflationary pressures indices,
• The removal NI Levy,
• The affordability of any proposal, and
• Our current ceiling rates and review processes which can be found on the county council website

Have your say

Please provide your views by clicking on the 'Take survey' button below.

The consultation which will remain open until 14 February.

Once the consultation has closed, we will analyse responses received together with other considerations including sustainability and value for money.

We will use this as the basis to determine the final uplift and ceiling prices for 2023/24 and we will write to all suppliers with the outcome.

If you have any specific questions please use the comments section which will be monitored throughout the process. Or you can email: carecontractspricereview@oxfordshire.gov.uk.