Partnership working with Blackpool BC

Blackpool Members Update re Fees

We reported in the last e-letter that LCA had made representations to the Council Leader around council priorities and the needs of vulnerable people needing care in Blackpool, challenging the low uplift (2%) projected for this year. This has resulted in an increase from 2% to 3% for care homes, with a similar figure for dom care. There’s a broader issue about using the Fair Price model to track costs and the gap between fees and sector costs (and to keep making the case to local and central government about sector costs) but in the limited circumstance of joint working with Blackpool we feel the council are responding to the case made by LCA. There’s still a lot of work to do but we feel we still have enough influence to stay in a joint working forum with them while we look to building bridges with the wider council.

 Blackpool are writing to you with the detail of the fees for 2008-09 and we have outlined our position to you in our letter. Click here to read the letter.