Guidance

Accelerating Reform Fund 2023 to 2024: grant determination No 31/7084

Published 15 March 2024

Applies to England

The Minister of State for Social Care (‘the Minister of State’), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination.

Citation

1) This determination may be cited as the 2023 to 2024 Accelerating Reform Fund for adult social care No 31/7084.

Purpose of the grant

2) The purpose of the grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them in funding adult social care.

This grant is made available to support local authorities with the cost of funding projects that deliver the department’s priorities for innovation and scaling in adult social care.

Determination

3) The Minister of State determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid. The authorities and the amounts are set out in Annex A.

Grant conditions

4) This is a non-ringfenced grant contribution to be paid to local authorities towards implementing projects in line with the department’s priorities for innovation and scaling in adult social care. There are no conditions on the grant.

As set out in the memorandum of understanding, local authorities will be expected to share learning and best practice with the evaluation partner, other local authorities and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Subsidy control

5) Local authorities should ensure they comply with their obligations under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 and the relevant UK subsidy control statutory guidance.

Treasury consent

6) Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Social Care

Linsey Craike and Megan Bradish, Deputy Directors for Adult Social Care Charging, Commissioning and Markets

15 March 2024

Annex A: grant allocations

Accelerating Reform Fund for adult social care: methodology

Each integrated care system (ICS) consortium receives a £300,000 ‘floor’ plus a share of £7,400,000 top-up funding. This top-up funding has been calculated based on the adult social care relative needs formula (RNF) at a local authority level and summed for the ICS consortium, based on the total number of local authorities opting in and to which consortium they join.

ICS consortium name	Local authorities in the consortium	Lead local authority to which grant is to be paid	Amount of grant to be paid in 2023 to 2024
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire	Bath and North East Somerset Swindon Wiltshire	Swindon	£403,815
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes	Bedford Central Bedfordshire Luton Milton Keynes	Central Bedfordshire	£399,470
Birmingham and Solihull	Solihull Birmingham	Solihull	£502,210
Black Country	Dudley Sandwell Walsall Wolverhampton	Walsall	£494,309
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire	Bristol, City of North Somerset South Gloucestershire	South Gloucestershire	£421,481
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West	Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Reading Wokingham West Berkshire	Oxfordshire	£469,841
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	Cambridgeshire Peterborough	Cambridgeshire	£397,429
Cheshire and Merseyside	Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Halton Knowsley Liverpool Sefton St Helens Warrington Wirral	Cheshire West and Chester	£693,846
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly	Cornwall	Cornwall	£387,294
Coventry and Warwickshire	Coventry Warwickshire	Coventry	£418,302
Derby and Derbyshire	Derbyshire Derby	Derbyshire	£449,247
Devon	Devon Torbay Plymouth	Devon	£477,758
Dorset	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Dorset	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£408,022
Frimley	Bracknell Forest Slough Windsor and Maidenhead	Windsor and Maidenhead	£342,304
Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	£379,063
Greater Manchester	Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford Wigan	Manchester	£718,641
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	Hampshire Isle of Wight Portsmouth Southampton	Southampton	£535,025
Herefordshire and Worcestershire	Herefordshire, County of Worcestershire	Worcestershire	£402,039
Hertfordshire and West Essex	Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	£429,202
Humber and North Yorkshire	East Riding of Yorkshire Kingston upon Hull, City of North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Yorkshire York	North Lincolnshire	£537,344
Kent and Medway	Kent Medway	Medway	£523,824
Lancashire and South Cumbria	Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Lancashire Westmorland and Furness	Westmorland and Furness	£560,320
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland	Leicester Leicestershire Rutland	Leicestershire	£428,867
Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	£405,249
Mid and South Essex	Essex Thurrock Southend-on-Sea	Essex	£531,180
Norfolk and Waveney	Norfolk	Norfolk	£430,585
North Central London	Barnet Camden Enfield Haringey Islington	Camden	£502,063
North East and North Cumbria	Cumberland Darlington County Durham Gateshead Hartlepool Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland North Tyneside Redcar and Cleveland South Tyneside Stockton-on-Tees Sunderland	County Durham	£774,410
North East London	Newham City of London Barking and Dagenham Havering Hackney Redbridge Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest	Newham	£565,963
North West London	Hammersmith and Fulham Harrow Ealing Hillingdon Brent	Hammersmith and Fulham	£477,811
Northamptonshire	North Northamptonshire West Northamptonshire	West Northamptonshire	£384,911
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	£458,661
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin	Shropshire Telford and Wrekin	Telford and Wrekin	£367,754
Somerset	Somerset	Somerset	£378,050
South East London	Bexley Bromley Greenwich Lambeth Lewisham Southwark	Bromley	£546,769
South West London	Croydon Kingston upon Thames Merton Richmond upon Thames Sutton Wandsworth	Richmond upon Thames	£469,313
South Yorkshire	Rotherham Sheffield Doncaster Barnsley	Rotherham	£512,465
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent	Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent	Staffordshire	£452,309
Suffolk and North East Essex	Suffolk	Suffolk	£401,920
Surrey Heartlands	Surrey	Surrey	£424,833
Sussex	Brighton and Hove East Sussex West Sussex	West Sussex	£522,432
West Yorkshire	Kirklees Calderdale Wakefield Leeds Bradford	Kirklees	£613,669
Total			£20,000,000