Accelerating Reform Fund 2024 to 2025: grant determination No 31/7516
Published 28 November 2024
Applies to England
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The Minister of State for 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
This determination may be cited as the 2024 to 2025 Accelerating Reform Fund for adult social care [No 31/7516].
Purpose of the grant
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
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
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
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
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 Care.
Linsey Craike and Megan Bradish, Deputy Directors for Adult Social Care Charging, Commissioning and Markets
26 November 2024.
Annex A: grant allocations
Accelerating Reform Fund for adult social care: methodology
The overall funding provided for 2024 to 2025 is £22.6 million. Allocations have been calculated based on the adult social care relative needs formula (RNF) at a local authority level and summed for the ICS (integrated care system) 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 2024 to 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire | Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, Wiltshire | Swindon | £317,059 |
| Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes | Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes | Central Bedfordshire | £303,784 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | Solihull, Birmingham | Solihull | £617,559 |
| Black Country | Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton | Walsall | £593,431 |
| Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire | Bristol, City of North Somerset, South Gloucestershire | South Gloucestershire | £371,009 |
| Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West | Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire | Oxfordshire | £518,704 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | Cambridgeshire, Peterborough | Cambridgeshire | £297,555 |
| Cheshire and Merseyside | Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens, Warrington, Wirral | Cheshire West and Chester | £1,202,829 |
| Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | Cornwall | Cornwall | £266,601 |
| Coventry and Warwickshire | Coventry, Warwickshire | Coventry | £361,302 |
| Derby and Derbyshire | Derbyshire, Derby | Derbyshire | £455,809 |
| Devon | Devon, Torbay, Plymouth | Devon | £542,884 |
| Dorset | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £329,903 |
| Frimley | Bracknell Forest, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead | Windsor and Maidenhead | £129,202 |
| Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | £241,462 |
| Greater Manchester | Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan | Manchester | £1,278,554 |
| Hampshire and Isle of Wight | Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton | Southampton | £717,777 |
| Herefordshire and Worcestershire | Herefordshire, County of Worcestershire | Worcestershire | £311,635 |
| Hertfordshire and West Essex | Hertfordshire | Hertfordshire | £394,588 |
| Humber and North Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, City of, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, York | North Lincolnshire | £724,860 |
| Kent and Medway | Kent, Medway | Medway | £683,570 |
| Lancashire and South Cumbria | Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire, Westmorland and Furness | Westmorland and Furness | £795,033 |
| Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland | Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland | Leicestershire | £393,567 |
| Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire | Lincolnshire | £321,437 |
| Mid and South Essex | Essex, Thurrock, Southend-on-Sea | Essex | £706,036 |
| Norfolk and Waveney | Norfolk | Norfolk | £398,813 |
| North Central London | Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Islington | Camden | £617,112 |
| 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 | £1,448,878 |
| North East London | Newham, City of London, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Hackney, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest | Newham | £812,250 |
| North West London | Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Ealing, Hillingdon, Brent | Hammersmith and Fulham | £543,045 |
| Northamptonshire | North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire | West Northamptonshire | £259,321 |
| Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | Nottinghamshire, Nottingham | Nottinghamshire | £484,559 |
| Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | Telford and Wrekin | £206,924 |
| Somerset | Somerset | Somerset | £238,368 |
| South East London | Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark | Bromley | £753,648 |
| South West London | Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton, Wandsworth | Richmond upon Thames | £517,095 |
| South Yorkshire | Rotherham, Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley | Rotherham | £648,880 |
| Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent | Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent | Staffordshire | £465,161 |
| Suffolk and North East Essex | Suffolk | Suffolk | £311,268 |
| Surrey Heartlands | Surrey | Surrey | £381,248 |
| Sussex | Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex | West Sussex | £679,318 |
| West Yorkshire | Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford | Kirklees | £957,962 |
| Total | Not applicable | Not applicable | £22,600,000 |