Care home fees. Why does it cost £1000+ per week?

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Why does it cost so much and how much money is being made?

IamNotDarling

In addition to their nursing degree, nursing.home managers are required to undertake a level 5 diploma in care home management, progressing to the level 7 if they wish.
But those are the minimum requirements.

@Twinkie01

A big chunk of that £1000 is subsidising a state funded resident because the local authority can't afford the full cost.

^ this.

This. I think the plan with the new social care tax is to gradually level out the cost so privately funded don't pay more for the same.

When they assess how much people have paid towards their care they are basing it on what it would have cost the state, not what was actually paid.

£1000 a week is £142 a day.

I can see how that would easily go on staffing, equipment, catering, laundry, facilities, utilities etc to be honest.

Care home staff when organised through an agency - the cost is ASTRONOMICAL and disgusting really, the agency keeping huge profits and carers being paid a pittance. If the care homes paid a more decent wage to full time permanent staff they would get so much more for their money!

@MLMbotsno

6 years ago I had an admin job in a care home for adults with various additional needs. Huge fees then (£5000 a week plus), challenging behaviour etc. Staff were on minimum wage and turnover high due to very challenging behaviour.

The profits for the group care homes was HUGE

That was my point previously about adult working age care (I assume you are not referring to elderly residents in a care home) - nearly half of the cost to taxpayers. I assume this £5000 a week plus would be paid out of the social care budget of the local authority.
Mosr people are still thinking that social care - means pensioners - They therefore see these as a burden on the taxpayer but OAPs probably only spend a couple of years in a care home and ALL their income and assets get used to pay towards the fees.

Silver farms.

I've worked in a few had relatives in some and spoken to people in others.
Very rarely will someone own one and actually want to run an outstanding one, if we could leave feed back and had a good care homes guide this may change

Otherwise the ones I've seen seen are run at bare minimum costs.. Treat staff and clients badly and the owners drive ferrari and Bentley and are "ruthless".

Not for all the tea in China would I want to go into one