Care Home Fees & Funding

We do not ask you to pay a deposit or an administration charge. We try to ensure our weekly fee and the amount you pay or contribute to your weekly fee is easy to understand. Please speak to the Home Manager if you would like to discuss this in more detail.

Foxburrow Grange accept residents who pay for the full cost of their stay themselves, or who receive assistance with funding from a public body such as their Local Authority or the Health Trust. The final price is dependent upon an individual’s requirements and needs as identified during the care needs assessment, undertaken prior to moving into the home, plus and the size and facilities of the room chosen. This will be discussed and agreed prior to moving into the home, as will arrangements for paying the weekly fee

Please contact us to discuss your care needs and to gain a better understanding of specific costs. We are always happy to assist with any general enquiries you may have in relation to your fees. You may be entitled to assistance with your care home Weekly Fee and so we recommend you seek independent, professional advice.

The weekly fee includes the care and support services that reflect your needs and wants including activities and routine trips; your own furnished room; all meals, drinks and snacks; laundry (excluding dry cleaning); domestic cleaning services; utilities including telephone calls (excluding international and premium rate telephone calls), and WiFi.

A number of extra treats and services that are not covered by the weekly fee are also provided at Foxburrow Grange. These include: professional hairdressing, magazines and newspapers for personal reading, personal purchases such as fresh flowers for individual’s rooms, stationery, confectionery, alcoholic beverages, particular snacks; toiletries; clothing, shoes and slippers; dry cleaning and the installation of private telephone line, internet or cable TV connections.

In the absence of free provision by the NHS, the following may also be provided, but shall be charged in addition to the weekly fee: chiropody; occupational therapy; opticians; dentistry; physiotherapy, other privately arranged healthcare and being accompanied to any planned medical appointments. The Home Manager will notify you if charges do not apply for any reason.

We have limited insurance for personal belongings and recommend that you do not keep anything of significant financial value (or significant sentimental value) in your room and that you arrange your own insurance cover. If you are unsure whether to bring particular items with you to the home, please speak with the Home Manager, who will be able to confirm the security arrangements at the home and the steps both you and we can take to keep your possessions safe.

If your stay at Foxburrow Grange is publicly funded you may be required to pay a means-tested contribution towards the cost of your care. The relevant commissioner will advise you of this. Changes to this rate are determined by the commissioner and notified by them to both the resident and the care home.

If you are paying for your own care, you’ll need to pay the care fees by Direct Debit at the start of each month. Upon moving in, the first Direct Debit will collect payments in advance for the first month's fees. The same applies to any applicable top-ups. If your care is publicly funded, and if we are collecting the resident’s contribution, this should also be paid by Direct Debit, but it will be collected at the end of the month.

If you are a private payer or have a top-up fee, your weekly fee will increase according to our Terms and Conditions, which our Home Manager can provide or discuss with you. If you are publicly-funded your weekly fee may also increase on an annual basis and the relevant commissioner will advise you of the rate that will apply plus any impact this has upon the contribution you pay towards the cost of your care.

Regardless of your funding (private or public), there may be an additional increase or decrease to your weekly fee over time to reflect changes to your care needs, funding and eligibility for financial assistance from the Local Authority or the Health Trust. For publicly funded residents, the relevant commissioner will advise you of any impact this has upon the contribution you pay towards the cost of your care. Private payers can also ask their commissioner to confirm if these changes enable them to access financial assistance from the Local Authority or Health Trust.

If there is a change of circumstances and you are not able to pay the weekly fee and you need financial assistance from the Local Authority or Health Trust, it is your responsibility to apply for public sector funding in good time to make the necessary arrangements.

If you are applying for public sector funding, you will continue to be responsible for paying our fees in full until your application has been completed and that funding has been agreed and commenced by the relevant body.

If your savings increase, the public-sector commissioner change their threshold or your care needs decrease over time, you may no longer be eligible to receive funding from the public sector, at which point you will become responsible for the payment of your care and accommodation.

The Home Manager can help you to request the necessary information from the commissioner and we recommend all our residents obtain independent, professional advice.

We recommend that all residents appoint someone as their Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) if they’ve not done so already - and you should seek independent legal advice on the process.

The LPA is a legal document that allows someone you trust to act on your behalf and remains effective if you lose capacity to make decisions for yourself. A Lasting Power of Attorney can provide someone you trust with the formal and legal authority to manage your financial affairs and/or to make decisions about your health and welfare.

If you have not made a Lasting Power of Attorney and you cannot manage your own affairs, the Local Authority and/ or NHS will be responsible for making key decisions about you, your financial affairs and your care package. Until you have a Lasting Power Attorney in place, we recommend that you identify a person you trust and who knows you well; we call this person your ‘Resident Liaison’. A Resident Liaison does not have the legal authority to make decisions on your behalf (like a Lasting Power of Attorney would), but we would like to be able to discuss your circumstances with them in order to best understand your needs and to make decisions about your care.