Sefton Council wishes to reassure residents of the true fees it provides for dementia care within the borough.



Reports in the national press at the weekend stated that ‘Sefton, in Liverpool, was at the bottom end of the scale paying £299 a week’.

This is simply not the case; Sefton’s fee for dementia patients in care homes for 2015/16 was £453 per week and this has since been lifted to £473.97 per week in 2016/17.

Sefton Council has approached the Sunday Express, who published the incorrect figures, for a correction.

Like many other local authorities in the country, Sefton faces severe financial challenges in providing care for some of the most vulnerable people in an ageing population, particularly in the face of government funding reductions.

However, our priority has been, and continues to be, to provide high quality services for the most vulnerable residents in the borough.

I find the above post a little confusing.

Does Sefton Council give £473.97 per week [for dementia patients in care homes] or does it CHARGE £473.97 per week.

It's the maximum amount the Council will PAY to providers for those who are its care responsibility (i.e. folks who don't have assets to pay for care themselves or whose assets have been depleted by care costs).

A friend of ours is well down the slope to full dementia. His wife was going out once a month to a small group, just for a break. She's out for two hours, and is charged £29-00 per hour for somebody to sit with her husband. Sadly see can no longer afford it and has become a prisoner in her own home, only getting a break when one of their children (Who don't live in the area) comes up to give mum a break. So much for our caring society. When asking for help, somebody suggested they get the equity out of their home and use that to pay for the help. Of course if they'd never worked in their lives, and lived in a council house, money and help would come flooding in at no cost.