Individuals living in Supported Living and Residential Care settings with Learning Disabilities

This request seeks to collect data for individuals living in Supported Living and Residential Care settings with Learning Disabilities, including those with Learning Disabilities and Autism.

We are not asking for information related to those with only Autism who do not have a Learning Disability, unless you are unable to separate the data.

If this is the case, please make this clear in your response. LD Supported Living:

Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2026 (w/c 20th April) Category

Total Hours for the week

Mean hourly rate paid

Median hourly rate paid

Lowest hourly rate paid

Highest hourly rate paid

Hours provided during the day

Wake hours provided during the night

Sleep-ins provided

Residential LD Care:

Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2026 Category

Mean rate paid

Median rate paid

Lowest rate paid

Highest rate paid

Placements

Current total placements today

Nursing LD Care

Please complete the following table with the information requested for the last full week of April 2026

Category

Mean rate paid

Median rate paid

Lowest rate paid

Highest rate paid

Placements

Current total placements today

Please provide the annual fee uplift for the current financial period.

If you have paid a bespoke uplift to different care providers or residents, please provide the average % uplift paid to providers in the period stated:

(Supported Living)

Year

Percentage uplift

Number of Providers receiving this uplift

Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

2026-27

(Residential Care)

Year

Percentage uplift

Number of Providers receiving this uplift

Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

2026-27

(Residential Care with Nursing)

Year

Percentage uplift

Number of Providers receiving this uplift

Number of Individuals receiving this uplift

5. For the period 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, please provide the number of individual residents, where their contracts for the provision of LD services for both residential care or supported living 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.

6. Please provide a copy of your 2026 to 2027 fee uplift letter that was sent to care providers for supported living, residential and nursing services for learning disabilities. 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.

1-4. Please see attached spreadsheet

5. Lincolnshire County Council has had one provider termination, and this affected 15 residents. 1 provider had a threat of closure and placements for 12 residents were renegotiated.

6. See attachments 1 and 2

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