Select Committee on Health Report



  11.  The weekly cost for a supported resident aged 65 or over in an independent (private or voluntary) residential care home during 1995-96 for individual authorities is shown in figure 5.3.3. For individual authorities this unit cost varied from less than £100 to over £400 (the average for England was £231), with about 41 per cent of authorities having a unit cost between £201 and £300.

  12.  Figure 5.3.4 shows the hourly cost of home help/care for individual authorities in 1995-96. The hourly cost varied from less than £5 to more than £11, with about 40 per cent of authorities having a unit cost of between £7 and £9. The average hourly unit cost for England was £8.


 
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