To consider a report of the Executive Member for Adult Social Care.

(i)             That the content of the report be noted.

The Executive Member for Adult Social Care introduced the report which detailed the Council’s recent activity around the fair price for care programme and the fair cost of care. The Executive Member for Adult Social Care informed the Committee that the Council were to revert to the inflationary uplift for prices in line with the outcomes of the fair cost of care exercise. The Committee were assured that the proposed uplift was in keeping with the Council’s commitment to the ethical care charter. The Executive Member for Adult Social Care gave a brief overview of the consultation exercise to be carried out as part of the fair price for care work and informed the Committee that a further report on the outcomes of the consolation would be provided in December. The Executive Member for Adult Social Care ended the introduction by outlining the next steps in the fair cost of care work which would be presented to the Committee alongside the provisional Market Stability Plan.

RESOLVED: That the report be noted.