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Long-Term Care Services (Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Order 2015

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A decision made 21 December 2015:

Decision Reference:       MD-HSS-2015-0045

Decision Summary Title :

Amendment of the Long-term Care Services (Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Order 2014

Date of Decision Summary:

18 December 2015

Decision Summary Author:

 

Assistant Director, Policy and Ministerial Support

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

 

Written Report

Title :

Amendment of the Long-term Care Services (Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Order 2014

Date of Written Report:

18 December 2015

Written Report Author:

Assistant Director, Policy and Ministerial Support

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

(State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)

Public

Subject:   To increase the charges payable for the provision of long-term care services to a person aged 18 years or over and to remove the separate rate for the weekly cost for standard care in a group home. Residents will now be charged in line with their assessed care level from January 2016.

 

Decision(s): 

The Minister made the Long-term Care Services (Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Order 2015.

 

Reason(s) for Decision:

 

This Order amends the Long-Term Care Services (Health and Social Services Charges) (Jersey) Order 2014 to increase the charges payable for the provision of long-term care services to a person aged 18 years or over.

 

This Order has been made in consultation with the Minister for Social Security.

 

The increase is 1.8%, in line with the increase in average earnings during 2015.  It is also in line with the Long-Term Care (Benefits) (Jersey) Order 2015 which increases the benefits payable under the Long Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 to adults receiving long-term care services. 

 

This Order also removes the separate rate for the weekly cost for standard care in a group home, which is no longer required.  Individuals receiving care in a group home will be charged in line with their assessed care level from January 2016.

 

This is the first increase since the charges were set on 1st July 2014.

Resource Implications:

  •  These changes will increase income to the Department by £131,000 in 2016. 
  •  

Action required:

Assistant Director, Policy and Ministerial Support, to notify the Greffier of the States and the Law Draftsman that the Order has been made so that it may be notified to the States, and forward the signed and sealed Order immediately to the States Greffe for publication and archiving.

 

Signature:

 

 

Position:

Minister for Health and Social Services

 

Date Signed:

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

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