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Calculator launched for fairer care costs

11 July 2008

A new "care calculator" has been devised to ensure that residential services for people with learning disabilities are fairly priced.

The English Community Care Association has designed the new calculator, which is a spreadsheet-based tool and it has been launched by nine Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnerships (RIEPs).

Communitycare.co.uk reports that the new schemes are expected to be used by care providers and commissioners to negotiate service prices with benchmarked prices

Under the current system, care ranges can cost from £400 to £4,000 per week, according to the RIEPs.

Joyce Redfearn, chair of the RIEPs' chief executives' task force, told the website: "This is about making sure that we get high quality outcomes for some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

"The calculator makes a complex process much more transparent for service users and, their care providers and commissioning staff."

A recent survey by the Learning Disability Coalition found that 34 per cent of people had seen an increased charge for activities in their day centre.


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