RWK Goodman: Cost pressures and fees in the working age adults social care sector

For too long, the care sector has been under-funded. Care providers are faced with the unenviable choice of either terminating placements, creating instability for the people they support, or allowing prolonged underfunding to continue, resulting in instability for a service or organisation overall.

What can be done when you don’t wish to destabilise people’s care but you also can’t continue to accept under-funding?

RWK Goodman and 39 Essex Chambers have designed this seminar to meet this conundrum head on. In the past, judicial review has mostly been used to challenge the setting of fee uplifts for elderly care, but decisions of public bodies as to fee rates for working age adults can also be challenged using judicial review. If you are a care provider for working age adults and are frustrated by static fee levels and rising costs, this seminar is for you.

Programme: 

Our employment experts will first examine the pressures on the cost side, specifically increasing employment costs. Our commissioning specialists will then discuss the legal mechanisms available to resist the stagnation of fee rates. Although the sector is under-funded, local authorities and ICBs’ duties to fund care appropriately have not changed. These duties can be harnessed to resist the downward spiral in fee rates.

Featuring:

James Sage | Partner, Employment & Immigration and Health & Social Care, RWK Goodman

Mei-Ling Huang | Partner, Dispute Resolution and Health & Social Care, RWK Goodman

Steve Broach KC | 39 Essex Chambers

Eleanor Leydon, | 39 Essex Chambers

Jake Thorold | 39 Essex Chambers

Venue:

RWK Goodman, One Castlepark Tower Hill, 63 Tower Hill, Bristol BS2 0JA