To approve uplifts to fees for adult social care providers for financial year 2020/21.

The Executive Director of Adult Social Services approves the annual care contracts uplift for 2020/21, effective 1st April 2020. The cost impact is £5.667m and has been provided for within the 2020/21 ASC cash limit budget, specifically funding set aside for the National Living Wage increase and price inflation.

These uplifts are in relation to:-

·                Residential and Nursing Older People;

·                Learning Disability and Mental Health Services

·                Direct Payments

·                Other Services covering supported living, supported people, ILF and other day care; and

·                Extracare

This decision is in addition to the decision published on 4 April 2020 in relation to the uplift in the homecare rate for 2020/21.