support charges
We are currnently reassessing our support charges (housing-related) and costs for our extra care schemes. Our charge is £23.68/week at the moment which is Supporting People grant eligible. Can anyone else out there let me know what your housing-related support charges are so I can get a feel for "averages" (aprreciateing that we arent necessarily comparing like for like) thanks Sue
Hi, we are just building our first extra care retirement shared equity scheme (40 flats). We will levy a service charge and a support charge. The support charge has been set at £20 per week. It could be useful to set up benchmark comparisons with anyone else happy to share this info. Regards Susan Battison Saxon Weald 01403 226080
Many members of the Housing LIN responded which was very much appreciated. However, it has been difficult to pull the responses together, even to make very broad-brush conclusions, given that there is such a huge variation of charges amongst providers.
I have summarised the responses below (quite crudely I have to say!) but I am happy to discuss in more detail should anyone wish to contact me directly. Please be assured I will respect confidentiality of all those who responsed.
Summary of responses
· Lowest charge mentioned = £3.65/week
· Highest charge mentioned = £102/week
· Some providers charges vary, depending on level of needs (usually categorised into low, medium and high).
· I have assumed that of the responses received, these are only housing-related support costs , and do not include service charges (building-related) or any personal care charges
· Of the 40+ responses received, I have broken down charge levels into 6 main groups:
Below £10 = 3 responses
£10 - £14 = 3 responses
£15 - £20 = 8 responses
£21 - £30= 11 responses
£31 - £40= 5 responses
£41 - £50= 1 response
£51 - £60= 5 responses
£61+= 6 responses
Sue Lewis
Head of Supported Housing Services
Pennine Housing 2000
Tel: 01422 284547
Mobile: 07720 560389
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Very interested to see the huge variety of costs in this area. We are currenlty paying £15.55 in one scheme.
Would also be interested to look at care comparison costs