At the Best Interest meeting held with the hospital social worker several weeks ago, she said that her manager was expecting the fund to end soon but that we did not need to do anything until SS wrote to us with a final date so we could sort out payments direct to the care home. Mum will be self funding and I did have to send in some bank statements to show that she had sufficient funds.
Interestingly, Mum was initially offered a place at a care home miles from where we live, we looked online and spoke to the manager and realised that all the residents there were paid by the LA at a basic rate, £650 per week. Although the home looked fine, I thought I would try some homes local to me to see if they were accepting new residents. The one recommended by several people were willing to take her but as they charged over twice the LA amountwe expected that Mum would have to pay the difference. After a SS management meeting, we got a phone call saying Mum would be fully funded at the home of our choice! In fact, the fund were prepared to pay £1400 per week when actual fees were £995 a week - to cover any additional costs that Mum might need. As this was at the end of April when everyone was panicking about hospital beds and discharges to care homes, I think it was a "bribe" to get care homes to take new residents - Mum did have to have a negative Covid test and go into isolation for two weeks.
