Implications of study of costs of regulating care homes for adults for fee-setting options

Abstract

This paper summarises the implications of the findings of a study of inspection units for the future level and types of fees for the regulatory function charged to care homes for adults. We focus here on the short-term implications for fee-setting under the current arrangements. The paper starts by describing the general principles adopted before identifying four different approaches to fee setting. For each approach examples are given of estimated level fee levels based on the analysis described in Netten, Forder and Knight (1999)