A local authority and care services minister Ivan Lewis have failed to stop a 103-year-old woman from being evicted from her Nottinghamshire care home.

Nottinghamshire county council offered extra cash and Mr Lewis intervened when great-grandmother Esme Collins was told to leave after 10 years at Abbeymoor nursing home in Worksop, because its owners refused to back down in a dispute over funding her care.

The council said today that Abbeymoor's owners had declined to lift the eviction notice, forcing Mrs Collins's transfer yesterday to a home in Retford.

Last month, Mr Lewis said: "Under normal circumstances I would not and cannot intervene in individual cases. However, this is so shocking I feel obliged to act. Neither Mrs Collins nor her family should be expected to cope with this anxiety for a minute longer. I am deeply concerned at the attempt by the home owner to use Mrs Collins as a pawn in a funding dispute.

"Whatever the difficulties, such treatment of a 103-year-old cannot be tolerated in a modern care system which has dignity and respect for older people at its heart."

Esme Simpson, Mrs Collins's daughter, said that although her mother had coped well with the move, she was unhappy about her treatment. "It has been a diabolical situation and we hope we can now put it behind us," she said.

The council and the home's owners have been arguing over the level of care Mrs Collins needs. The home received the "very dependent needs" residential rate of £334 a week. Mrs Collins paid £162 of the sum, and the council contributed the remainder.

However, the council said Abbeymoor's owners wanted an extra £100, saying she needed more expensive nursing care.

Despite a string of assessments which found Mrs Collins did not require the additional service, the council offered to meet the extra cost to lift the threat of eviction. The offer was not accepted, the authority said.

David Pearson, the county council's strategic director for adult social care, said: "We, and the family, are extremely disappointed to have to make this move after the council made the financial offer that Abbeymoor's owners sought in order to resolve this matter."

Abbeymoor's owner, Mark Sutters, was not available for comment today, but he previously told the Nottingham Evening Post that the home could not continue to "subsidise" Mrs Collins's care.

Age Concern has campaigned for the closing of a legal loophole that left the pensioner without the protection of human rights legislation.

Gordon Lishman, the charity's director general, said today: "Forcing an older person to leave their care home can have a devastating impact on their physical and emotional health.

"We urge the government to act quickly to give the protection of the Human Rights Act to people living in private care homes to help prevent such situations."