Care home fee rates 2026-27
I am writing to request the standard weekly fee rates your authority pays to independent-sector care homes for older people in the 2026-27 financial year. Specifically, for each of the four categories below, please state the standard weekly rate effective in 2026-27: 1. Residential care ' standard (2025-26: £919.23) 2. Residential care ' dementia / EMI (2025-26: £1007.13) 3. Nursing care ' standard (2025-26: £958.00) 4. Nursing care ' dementia / EMI (2025-26: £1041.79) Please also answer the following, which take one line each: 5. Are the two nursing rates quoted INCLUSIVE or EXCLUSIVE of the NHS-funded nursing care (FNC) contribution? 6. Are the rates weekly or daily? 7. From what date do they take effect? Where your authority pays a band or range rather than a single rate, please give the standard or most commonly paid rate and note the range. Where a category is not commissioned separately, please say so ' that is a complete answer and I do not need an estimate. A spreadsheet is attached with these questions laid out; filling it in and returning it is the quickest way to respond, but a reply in any format is equally welcome, including simply typing the figures into a reply to this email.