Care Home Beds & Capacity (FOI)

Request 695359134

​How many care home beds are there in Jersey and what is the percentage capacity currently? Please could you also provide me with the data for the last five years. Thank you.

Response

Information on the number of beds registered for each care home can be found on the Jersey Care Commission’s website, linked below:

Jersey Care Commission | Jersey's Independent Care Regulator

As information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

As noted in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in January 2025, records are not held by the Government of Jersey on the numbers of care home residents. Therefore, Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Articles applied

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.