Homecare Services Prices - Freedom of information requests
Title or Description
Homecare Services Prices
FOI Number
15317
Date Received
11/06/2021
Type of Request
FOI
Request or Question
The information requested is:(a) The lowest rate per hour paid to any individual Homecare Provider during the Reference Period, expressed in pounds and pence per hour.(b) The highest rate per hour paid to any individual Homecare Provider during the Reference Period, expressed in pounds and pence per hour.
(c) The average ("arithmetic mean") price per hour paid to all Homecare Providers for all hours of homecare services purchased during the Reference Period, expressed in pounds and pence per hour.
(d) The total hours of Homecare purchased from all Homecare Providers during the Reference Period.
(e) The total hours of Homecare purchased from all homecare providers during a seven-day period which includes Monday, 20th April 2020 (i.e. the figure which provides a like-for-like comparison with item (d), above, for the previous year).
(f) Your organisation's total spend on Homecare Services purchased from all Homecare Providers during the Reference Period.
(g) In relation to contracts held with independent and voluntary sector Homecare Providers:
(i) Whether your organisation has imposed a contractual requirement that any Homecare Provider pay their workers an hourly rate above the prevailing rate of the statutory National Minimum Wage (including the statutory National Living Wage). Please answer "Yes" or "No".
(ii) The minimum pay rate specified, in pounds and pence per hour, if the answer to question (g)(i), above, was "Yes".
(h) In relation to how you have calculated the price(s) you pay for Homecare:
(i) Whether, in the financial years 2019-20, 2020-21 or 2021-22, you have undertaken a numerical calculation of the hourly cost of a homecare service to assure yourself that the price(s) you pay to independent and voluntary sector Homecare Providers covers their costs and expectations of a profit or surplus. Please answer "yes" or "no".
(ii) If your answer to question (h)(i) was "yes", please supply a copy of the most recent numerical calculation referred to in your answer, including the financial year to which it relates. For the avoidance of doubt, this question asks you to supply a numerical calculation, rather than a narrative description of the factors which you have considered in setting the prices paid.
Response
(a) The lowest rate paid per hour is £17.60
(b) The highest rate paid per hour is £21.46
(c) The mean consolidated hourly rate is £19.50
(d) The weekly support plan hours including 19th April 21 – 6301.78
(e) The weekly support plan hours including 20th April 20 – 4994.165
(f) Unable to provide the spend for a particular week but the total spend in April 21 - £523,651.79
