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Sixty Second Interview with Martin Green

By Josephine Hocking

Martin Green is chief executive of the English Community Care Association, whose members are voluntary and private sector residential and nursing care home providers for adults.

ECCA published a poll about fee increases by local authorities this week.

What did your poll on fee increases by local authorities reveal?

The increase in fees from local authorities to independent sector providers is at best meagre, and at worst negligible.

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105 care providers voted in our poll. 71% received a fee increase of one to two per cent and nearly 10% said they did not get an increase. 
 
Is the continuing shortfall between provider costs and what local authorities pay sustainable?

There is a significant shortfall and massive variations between local authorities.

We must ensure that self-funders are not subsidising the state. 
Underfunding demeans any sector and car