To consider the attached report which sets out the approach used to setting the usual cost of care, and the funding necessary to support payment of care home fee rates for 2012/13 and 2013/14.

Members considered the submitted report which set out the proposed fees for care homes for 2012-2014.  The Council, through Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust was required each year to set the costs it would pay for residential and nursing care provision.  The report set out details of a review which had been undertaken, the proposal formulated and consultation undertaken on the proposed fee rates.

It was proposed by Councillor Scouler and seconded by Councillor Bent:

(i)            the Council approves the basis of the calculation for the ‘usual cost’ of residential and care home fees, as set out in the submitted report;  and

(ii)          the Council authorise funding to Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust in the sum of £494,000 in 2012/13 and recognises the additional costs £412,000 in 2013/14 in order to meet Care Home fees for that year.

On being put to the vote the motion was declared carried.