WCC consultation on Care Charges - ends 22nd July

Please see text below regarding Warwickshire County Council's current consultation on Care Charges within Warwickshire.
If you wish to complete the questionnaire, please click on the link below.  The deadline for responses is Friday 22nd July.
Many thanks.


"Following on from the charging for community care services consultation held between July and September 2010 we decided that:

• We could no longer afford to subsidise services - other than through means testing - if we are to sustain them in the future;
• We wanted to continue to protect those not able to meet the cost of their charges;
• Further work was needed in some areas to increase fairness, particularly with the move to personal budgets.

Cabinet agreed these findings in October 2010 and approved a set of increases in charges in line with these principles. As part of these changes, charges for residential respite services were increased to the full cost of £51.80 a day (from December 2010). Following this decision we reviewed all our replacement care services. While respite care is chargeable, the carers sitting service is non-chargeable. We are therefore proposing to introduce charges on all replacement care service as soon as possible and to move to full cost subject to means testing by April 2012. This will ensure that there is fairness across all services. We would like to understand how these proposed changes would affect you. This is a genuine consultation and your views really count, so please tell us what you think.The consultation on these services will start on Friday 10 June and finish on Friday 22 July 2011."

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/replacementcareconsultation


Regards

Ali Mainey
Area Administration Assistant, Stratford-on-Avon Area Office
Communities
Warwickshire County Council
Office Phone External: 01789 260134
Mobile: 07557 565783
Internal: 532134
email:  alisonmainey@warwickshire.gov.ukwww.warwickshire.gov.uk

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