You're invited: Care fee seminars | Wednesday 6 May & Thursday 7 May
For providers of care for working age adults
Wednesday 6 May at 39 Essex Chambers London | Thursday 7 May at RWK Goodman Bristol
For too long, the care sector has been underfunded. Care providers are faced with the unenviable choice of either terminating placements, creating instability for the people they support, or allowing prolonged underfunding to continue, resulting in instability for a service or organisation overall.
What can be done when you don’t wish to destabilise people’s care but you can’t continue to accept underfunding?
RWK Goodman and 39 Essex Chambers have designed this seminar to meet this conundrum head on. In the past, judicial review has mostly been used to challenge the setting of fee uplifts for elderly care, but decisions of public bodies as to fee rates for working age adults can also be challenged using judicial review. If you are a care provider for working age adults and are frustrated by static fee levels and rising costs, this seminar is for you.
Programme:
Our employment experts will first examine the pressures on the cost side, specifically increasing employment costs. Our commissioning specialists will then discuss the legal mechanisms available to resist the stagnation of fee rates. Although the sector is underfunded, local authorities and ICBs’ duties to fund care appropriately have not changed. These duties can be harnessed to resist the downward spiral in fee rates.
Featuring:
James Sage, RWK Goodman
Mei-Ling Huang, RWK Goodman
Steve Broach KC, 39 Essex Chambers
Eleanor Leydon, 39 Essex Chambers
Jake Thorold, 39 Essex Chambers
Event details:
London
Date: Wednesday 6 May
Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm
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Bristol
Date: Thursday 7 May
Time: 11am - 1pm
Venue: RWK Goodman, One Castlepark Tower Hill, 63 Tower Hill, Bristol BS2 0JA
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Please note: there are limited spaces for these events; RSVP now to avoid disappointment.
If you have any questions please email us at events@rwkgoodman.com, or get in touch with your usual contact.