Care homes face funding crisis

IT HAS been suggested that underfunding by central government is responsible for the crisis in the care home sector and the collapse of over 400 care home businesses since 2010. PLEASE can anyone give me any news of a lady called Andrea-Alexandre, lived at Jesmond, 1947.

Also at farm rear of RAF Ouston where I met her. Have tried for ages to find her without luck.

There are some 20,000 care homes in the UK, mainly in private or charitable hands.

There are other contributory factors to the problems in this sector, namely abnormally high levels of borrowing relating to care home property purchases and the fall in the number of residents able to pay their own fees leaving heavy reliance on local authority funding for nonpaying residents.

Care home margins are so tight that a rise in interest rates or the minimum wage is enough to push some homes into unprofitability.

My own local council, which has a net budget of £199m,, carried forward reserves of £60m in 2016/17 of which only £18m was ring-fenced and

Said she was French-Canadian. Please, anything at all.

Was moved to RAF Syerston (Notts), that’s how we lost touch. KEN, EX RAF Ouston, Tel: 01429 868837

could not be used to support the revenue budget.

Holding record non-ringfenced reserves while cutting services and raising council tax is nothing short of scandalous.

There needs to be an urgent review of the care home model and future funding arrangements as, with an increasing ageing population, the problems can only get worse. CT, Gateshead