Care fees seminar | 6 & 7 May
For too long, the care sector has been under-funded. 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 also can’t continue to accept under-funding?
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 under-funded, 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.
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Mei-Ling specialises in health and social care as well as commercial litigation and regularly advises care homes, home care agencies, supported living providers, dentists, GPs and drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres on the myriad of challenges they face. |
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James is a HR and employment law specialist with strong commercial and business acumen. James supports clients with complex employment law cases including whistleblowing and discrimination, senior executive exits, large scale redundancy/reorganisation, Employment Tribunal litigation, TUPE and employment aspects of business sales, acquisitions and mergers |
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Steve is a public lawyer with particular expertise in health, education and social care and disability and children’s rights cases. He is a discrimination specialist and has acted in many of the leading public law discrimination cases. |
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Eleanor’s practice is focused on public, environmental and planning law. In Summer 2022 she was seconded to the High Court (QBD) (Admin Court) as a Judicial Assistant to Mr Justice Chamberlain. |
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Jake accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ practice areas with a particular focus on public (including Court of Protection), planning and environmental law. |
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If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
Date: Wednesday 6 May
Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm
Venue: 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1DD
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Date: Thursday 7 May
Time: 11am – 1pm
Venue: RWK Goodman, One Castlepark Tower Hill, 63 Tower Hill, Bristol BS2 0JA
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