One Per Cent Care Home Increase Is 'Blackmail' ; Background

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One of the owners of a private residential home has challenged social services bosses to explain how she is expected to provide a decent standard of care for the pounds 49.34 a day Birmingham City Council is prepared to pay her to look after elderly people with dementia.

Pam Sale, who runs the Stoneleigh home in Stechford, accused the local authority of attempting to "blackmail" her into accepting a one per cent increase in the fees it pays the independent sector to care for clients.

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One Per Cent Care Home Increase Is 'Blackmail' ; Background

Mrs Sale said she, and scores of other home owners, had been told by the council that no new residents would be plac...

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