Fee Uplift for Care Providers 2025 - Find a freedom of information request

Please find the following request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Please note: the format below has been drafted to ensure all authorities can provide a response in respect of their care home fees for older person care.   

 

Q1) Please provide a copy of your 2025 to 2026 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers. 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. 

 

Q2) Please confirm the date when the local authority/Cabinet agreed or made the decision to proceed with the fee uplift for care providers for the 2025/26 financial year. 

 

Q3) Please confirm the date this decision on the fee uplift for the 2025/26 financial year was officially communicated to the providers. 

 

Q4) Please provide your 2025 to 2026 weekly base* fee rates for the following care types: 

Nursing (Excl. FNC) 

Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC) 

Residential (without nursing) 

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. 

 

Q5) Please provide your average weekly fee rate (being the average weekly fee paid during the period 1

st April 2024 to March 31st 2025) for the following care types:

A. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

B. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

C. Residential (without nursing)

D. 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.



Q6) Please provide your provisional average weekly fee rate (calculated consistently with the

rate in the question above) for the period 2025-2026 for the following care types:

A. Nursing (Excl. FNC)

B. Nursing with Dementia (Excl. FNC)

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C. Residential (without nursing)

D. 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.



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.



Q8) For the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025, 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.

detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

1. Please find the letter attached (attachment 1)

2. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) can confirm that the date of the decision made to proceed with the fee uplifts for care providers for the 2025/2026 financial year as the 4th of March 2025.

3. Lincolnshire County Council can confirm that the date of the decision of the fee uplifts for the 2025/2026 financial year was officially communicated with providers on the 7th of March 2025.

4. Please see attached document (attachment 2)

5a. Aged 65+ - £773.95 – Aged 18-64 - £1,084.62

b. no Dementia Rate for LCC

c. Aged 65+ £732.63     - Aged 18-64 £1,622.38

d. no Dementia Rate for LCC

6a-d. This has not yet been made available as it relates to 2025/2026.

7. Lincolnshire County Council can confirm that as an authority we do not require for care providers to pay care staff a higher rate than the national living wage.

8. Lincolnshire County Council do not hold this information.

Should you require the attachments mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.