1. KICA DPS SURVEY SURVEY RESULTS KCC DPS SURVEY ADAM HUTCHISON 17 TH JUNE 2015

2. SCENE SETTING Martin Green – Chair of Care England comments: ‘I don’t see much austerity at the DoH with the government spending £120bn a year on it, Spending on Social Care is relatively miniscule and more of that money is tied up in the structures of social care and less and less on service delivery. The real challenge any future government must face is how to transfer money to the front line” Caring Times 2015 Ian Smith CEO - Fours Seasons Healthcare Comments “We are heading for a deepening crisis in social care unless there is increased spending instead of reducing it. I have become increasingly concerned that the unless there is a change in the funding regime – average fees paid by Local Authorities remain between £30 - £140 per week below a “Fair Cost of Care” social care in the UK is likely to see a shortfall of tens of thousands of elderly care beds in the next decade” Carer UK 2015

3. BACKGROUND Survey carried out as a joint request with KCC Discussions with KCC Commissioning & KiCA representatives To under stand real views from the sector Sent to all members Responded to anonymously Calculated by provider NOT by number of homes

4. THE RESPONSE 40 Responses in total. 37 responses in March 2015 – 3 in May / June 2015. This is a good proportion of contracted providers. Assumption that 2 homes per respondent. 80 homes of the 227 on the DPS = 35% of the contracted providers. This is membership only and not all providers are members.

9. OUTPUT Some Comments Raised: “Although we understand the cuts in social services budgets, KCC contract base cost price will not cover provider’s costs. Nor does it seem to take into account client preferences. You cannot provide quality care with insufficient payments” “The new contract is designed simply to allow KCC to boast it has controlled the cost of care and use a reverse auction bidding system to destroy quality in place of price. It will eventually see homes close and clients suffer as a consequence. I hope you are proud.” “I am very concerned regarding the deferred payments system. It appears more & more privately funded service users will be going down this path. Although I have set my indicative price at my current private rate so enabling me to apply for that fee when a service user is deferred, I do then lose control of setting the annual increase for this fee”

10. NEXT STEPS Work with Sector and KCC on new Re-Let Members questions raised in advance of this forum Plans for group sessions to involve providers Collaborative approach to contracting Future of the DPS…

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