Adult personal social services: specific revenue funding and grant allocations for 2020 to 2021
Published 27 July 2020
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Local authority social services letter – LASSL (DHSC) (2020)
To: The Director of Adults’ Social Services
- County Councils (England)
- Metropolitan District Councils (England)
- Shire Unitary Councils (England)
- London Borough Councils
- Common Council of the City of London
- Council of the Isles of Scilly
Summary
This letter clarifies local authority specific revenue funding for the financial year 2020 to 2021, which was subject to the 2019 Spending Review. This includes information on the Local Reform and Community Voices, Social Care in Prisons and War Pensions Disregard grants. It also provides information on funding for the sixth year of Care Act implementation, which comes from a range of sources in 2020 to 2021, as well as details of some elements of the Better Care Fund.
Action
This letter is provided for information only, and confirms details and allocations of Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) local authority specific revenue funding.
Specific revenue funding
Local Reform and Community Voices grant
DHSC will make £34.41 million available through the Local Reform and Community Voices section 31 grant in 2020 to 2021.
A breakdown of the grant is shown in annex A. Allocations are presented in annex B.
In 2020/21 this grant is comprised of the following funding streams:
- funding for deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) in hospitals
- local Healthwatch funding, and
- funding for Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy Services (ICAS)
Local authorities have a duty under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012) to ensure that an effective local Healthwatch is operating in their area, delivering the activities set out in the legislation. The Local Reform and Community Voices grant provides one element of the non-ring fenced funding provided for local Healthwatch, with the larger proportion having been rolled into the local government settlement in 2011 to 2012.
Social care in prisons grant
DHSC will make £10.95 million available through the social care in prisons section 31 grant in 2020/21 (this makes up part of the Care Act funding covered in further detail below).
Further grant details are in annex A. Allocations are presented in annex B.
The Act establishes that the local authority in which a prison, approved premises or bail accommodation is based will be responsible for assessing and meeting the care and support needs of the offenders residing there.
The provision of care and support for those in custodial settings is based on the principle of equivalence to provision in the community. The Act clarifies the application of Part 1 for people in custodial settings, including aspects which do not apply.
War Pensions Scheme Disregard grant
DHSC consulted in November 2016 about the allocation of new funding to disregard (for the purposes of social care charging) all payments made under the War Pension Scheme with the exception of Constant Attendance Allowance.
The consultation response was published in February 2017.
The table of 2020/21 allocations for £12 million is in annex B. The War Pensions Scheme Disregard grant will be paid as a Department of Health and Social Care section 31 grant.
Care Act funding
Local authorities will receive £684.21 million for new burdens arising from the Care Act in 2020 to 2021. This funding will be paid out as follows:
a) Department of Health and Social Care section 31 grant for social care in prisons (details above)
b) visible lines of funding in Core Spending Power paid out by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
- i) Care Act: Funding Reform (including Deferred Payments) £263.48 million
- ii) Care Act: Carers etc – £258.74 million. Funding for other duties introduced by the Care Act 2014, including carer assessment and support, access to advocacy support, adult safeguarding, and ensuring continuity of care for people moving area
c) funding in the Better Care Fund of £151.04 million for support of carers under the Care Act (details below)
Better Care Fund
Revenue funding
£175.63 million of revenue funding within the Better Care Fund is linked to a range of duties for local authorities in 2020/21. This should provide for duties included in the Care Act that commenced in 2015/16, focusing on support for carers (see below). The funding also includes provision for Independent Mental Health Advocacy and the disregard for Guaranteed Income Payments for veterans, and money to offset financial pressures on the care and support system that may be created by changes to the pensions and benefit systems.
Support for carers
£151.04 million of this funding will be for carer support under the Care Act 2014, as carer support is an important area of joint responsibility where integrated approaches can be beneficial. The Care Act sets out duties on local authorities with respect to carers.
Funding for other duties under the Care Act (for example advocacy, safeguarding) should be considered as included within core funding paid out by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), as set out above.
Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
From 2013/14 to 2014/15, the Local Reform and Community Voices grant contained funding for the transfer to local authorities of responsibility for commissioning Independent Mental Health Advocacy services. In 2015 to 2016 this funding stream was moved into the Better Care Fund.
Local authorities continue to have a duty under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012) to make arrangements to enable every qualifying patient who wants one to have access to an IMHA. Qualifying patients include patients detained under provisions (other than emergency provisions) of the Mental Health Act 1983, all patients on Community Treatment Orders and all patients subject to guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983.
Enquiries
For further information on these allocations please contact:
The Social Care Finance team
Care and Transformation Directorate
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
Email: scfinance-enquiries@dhsc.gov.uk
Annex A: Specific grant resources allocated by DHSC in 2020 to 2021
Total national allocations, 2020 to 2021
Revenue: Local Reform and Community Voices grant: £34.41 million
Of which:
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards in Hospitals[footnote 1]: £5.15 million
- Local Healthwatch[footnote 2]: £14.15 million
- Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy Service: £15.1 million
Revenue: Social Care in Prisons grant: £10.95 million
Revenue: War Pensions Scheme Disregard grant: £12.00 million
Total local authority revenue grant resources: £57.36 million
Annex B: Table of allocations in 2020 to 2021
The Local Reform and Community Voices grant is allocated using the Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula and is comprised of the following policy lines, one of which has a minimum amount per local authority:
- additional funding for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) in Hospitals (£5.15 million)
- additional Local Healthwatch funding (£14.15 million). The allocations for this have a minimum amount of £10,000 per local authority, and
- funding for Independent Complaints Advisory Services (£15.11 million)
The allocations of the Social Care in Prisons grant are as set out in the ‘Response to the consultation on funding formulae for implementation of the Care Act in 2015/16: Allocations for early assessments against the cap on care costs, universal deferred payment agreements, social care in prisons and additional funding for Care Act implementation, including carers rights’. The prisons allocations for 2020 to 2021 reflect prison populations at 30 June 2019 and first receptions for the year July 2018 to June 2019 inclusive, and are adjusted for certain planned reconfigurations.
The allocations of the War Pensions Scheme Disregard grant are as set out in the ‘Response to the consultation on allocating 2017‒18 funding to disregard war pensions in social care financial assessments’. The allocations for 2020 to 2021 reflect War Pensioner populations at 31 March 2019.
The table reflects the new Dorset Unitary Authority (comprised of the area of the old Dorset County Council, excluding Christchurch District) and the new Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Unitary Authority (comprised of the area of the old Bournemouth Council, Poole Council and Christchurch District). A grant-specific percentage of the allocation for the old Dorset County Council has been transferred to the new Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Unitary Authority in agreement with the councils affected.
| Local Reform and Community Voices 2020/21 | Social Care in Prisons 2020/21 | War Pensions Disregard Grant 2020/21 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | £130,841 | £0 | £8,008 |
| Barnet | £207,423 | £0 | £11,961 |
| Barnsley | £177,461 | £0 | £86,301 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £104,572 | £0 | £27,074 |
| Bedford | £88,961 | £53,382 | £17,075 |
| Bexley | £133,034 | £0 | £15,996 |
| Birmingham | £802,513 | £175,442 | £95,219 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £109,539 | £0 | £27,649 |
| Blackpool | £129,496 | £0 | £89,467 |
| Bolton | £199,200 | £0 | £47,558 |
| Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (new UA) | £250,468 | £0 | £121,945 |
| Bracknell Forest | £51,851 | £0 | £14,345 |
| Bradford | £329,186 | £0 | £60,255 |
| Brent | £192,454 | £0 | £3,286 |
| Brighton and Hove | £176,065 | £0 | £23,761 |
| Bristol, City of | £290,662 | £96,628 | £46,510 |
| Bromley | £170,590 | £0 | £21,021 |
| Buckinghamshire | £239,497 | £75,172 | £50,118 |
| Bury | £117,033 | £0 | £28,245 |
| Calderdale | £131,922 | £0 | £30,099 |
| Cambridgeshire | £333,033 | £358,819 | £107,319 |
| Camden | £184,247 | £0 | £8,850 |
| Central Bedfordshire | £124,092 | £0 | £25,515 |
| Cheshire East | £207,874 | £76,617 | £55,655 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £210,250 | £0 | £90,198 |
| City of London | £14,119 | £0 | £738 |
| Cornwall | £400,287 | £0 | £334,578 |
| County Durham | £404,441 | £405,501 | £268,974 |
| Coventry | £222,264 | £0 | £36,721 |
| Croydon | £200,809 | £0 | £17,107 |
| Cumbria | £359,280 | £114,907 | £158,820 |
| Darlington | £71,817 | £0 | £56,058 |
| Derby | £164,588 | £0 | £41,969 |
| Derbyshire | £519,787 | £106,374 | £158,260 |
| Devon | £512,368 | £301,500 | £428,811 |
| Doncaster | £216,364 | £383,133 | £124,989 |
| Dorset (new UA) | £244,864 | £188,369 | £206,331 |
| Dudley | £223,778 | £0 | £31,016 |
| Ealing | £203,136 | £0 | £8,219 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £207,205 | £144,274 | £123,187 |
| East Sussex | £370,520 | £95,513 | £122,463 |
| Enfield | £186,093 | £0 | £10,761 |
| Essex | £848,253 | £108,565 | £202,409 |
| Gateshead | £162,398 | £0 | £92,918 |
| Gloucestershire | £362,543 | £0 | £161,126 |
| Greenwich | £190,627 | £294,098 | £19,713 |
| Hackney | £201,335 | £0 | £6,278 |
| Halton | £91,587 | £0 | £59,231 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £131,603 | £215,176 | £11,591 |
| Hampshire | £681,312 | £104,627 | £475,459 |
| Haringey | £164,536 | £0 | £6,038 |
| Harrow | £138,975 | £0 | £6,836 |
| Hartlepool | £71,810 | £0 | £52,694 |
| Havering | £144,112 | £0 | £15,152 |
| Herefordshire, County of | £126,191 | £0 | £96,433 |
| Hertfordshire | £592,455 | £85,757 | £80,236 |
| Hillingdon | £149,188 | £0 | £14,673 |
| Hounslow | £143,204 | £21,764 | £9,333 |
| Isle of Wight | £109,826 | £221,118 | £59,292 |
| Isles of Scilly | £11,069 | £0 | £1,197 |
| Islington | £184,265 | £189,559 | £6,252 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £124,212 | £0 | £18,889 |
| Kent | £883,352 | £386,694 | £313,986 |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | £208,205 | £188,478 | £79,884 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £82,135 | £0 | £7,438 |
| Kirklees | £266,518 | £0 | £62,110 |
| Knowsley | £140,011 | £0 | £85,916 |
| Lambeth | £216,226 | £101,219 | £12,976 |
| Lancashire | £790,742 | £521,639 | £361,851 |
| Leeds | £474,422 | £253,164 | £90,751 |
| Leicester | £225,514 | £44,610 | £26,787 |
| Leicestershire | £345,958 | £107,946 | £94,920 |
| Lewisham | £196,015 | £0 | £13,324 |
| Lincolnshire | £482,622 | £181,355 | £375,973 |
| Liverpool | £423,750 | £311,192 | £226,005 |
| Luton | £112,937 | £0 | £12,378 |
| Manchester | £382,041 | £95,415 | £50,760 |
| Medway | £142,993 | £57,352 | £53,409 |
| Merton | £107,174 | £0 | £12,581 |
| Middlesbrough | £108,611 | £0 | £50,229 |
| Milton Keynes | £130,126 | £87,580 | £26,071 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £215,066 | £0 | £104,340 |
| Newham | £210,422 | £0 | £7,560 |
| Norfolk | £598,798 | £352,419 | £245,420 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £111,731 | £0 | £45,388 |
| North Lincolnshire | £109,038 | £0 | £58,410 |
| North Somerset | £132,399 | £0 | £57,862 |
| North Tyneside | £147,752 | £0 | £103,279 |
| North Yorkshire | £347,298 | £0 | £199,319 |
| Northamptonshire | £389,358 | £188,101 | £125,688 |
| Northumberland | £218,022 | £146,447 | £152,050 |
| Nottingham | £222,116 | £138,635 | £42,513 |
| Nottinghamshire | £505,423 | £321,851 | £215,949 |
| Oldham | £160,832 | £0 | £45,351 |
| Oxfordshire | £328,376 | £187,453 | £102,231 |
| Peterborough | £113,731 | £161,376 | £40,264 |
| Plymouth | £184,010 | £0 | £343,492 |
| Portsmouth | £127,595 | £0 | £79,096 |
| Reading | £81,609 | £0 | £11,672 |
| Redbridge | £159,918 | £0 | £9,171 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £103,207 | £0 | £65,388 |
| Richmond upon Thames | £94,698 | £0 | £10,111 |
| Rochdale | £158,826 | £41,823 | £47,248 |
| Rotherham | £192,778 | £0 | £55,568 |
| Rutland | £21,457 | £70,160 | £14,549 |
| Salford | £188,820 | £228,100 | £45,352 |
| Sandwell | £264,804 | £0 | £29,980 |
| Sefton | £218,513 | £0 | £64,462 |
| Sheffield | £387,660 | £0 | £64,478 |
| Shropshire | £199,733 | £47,335 | £108,235 |
| Slough | £73,864 | £0 | £5,360 |
| Solihull | £124,720 | £0 | £23,832 |
| Somerset | £357,898 | £0 | £248,447 |
| South Gloucestershire | £133,991 | £302,658 | £39,504 |
| South Tyneside | £131,155 | £0 | £111,276 |
| Southampton | £158,974 | £0 | £33,401 |
| Southend-on-Sea | £118,079 | £0 | £22,973 |
| Southwark | £225,070 | £0 | £10,391 |
| St Helens | £137,976 | £0 | £124,876 |
| Staffordshire | £507,558 | £681,571 | £151,410 |
| Stockport | £183,883 | £0 | £35,065 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £121,121 | £134,901 | £63,690 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £190,858 | £0 | £55,337 |
| Suffolk | £467,353 | £255,908 | £169,023 |
| Sunderland | £224,660 | £0 | £194,419 |
| Surrey | £572,425 | £461,505 | £128,179 |
| Sutton | £105,651 | £0 | £9,155 |
| Swindon | £110,233 | £0 | £58,191 |
| Tameside | £165,372 | £0 | £43,306 |
| Telford and Wrekin | £110,955 | £0 | £72,825 |
| Thurrock | £93,747 | £0 | £12,996 |
| Torbay | £118,734 | £0 | £85,007 |
| Tower Hamlets | £209,928 | £0 | £8,634 |
| Trafford | £135,518 | £0 | £26,085 |
| Wakefield | £236,281 | £231,699 | £90,796 |
| Walsall | £205,178 | £0 | £32,888 |
| Waltham Forest | £156,008 | £0 | £6,765 |
| Wandsworth | £185,923 | £309,430 | £11,597 |
| Warrington | £118,040 | £147,347 | £40,596 |
| Warwickshire | £320,212 | £0 | £87,660 |
| West Berkshire | £71,778 | £0 | £19,390 |
| West Sussex | £473,380 | £65,015 | £137,078 |
| Westminster | £189,607 | £0 | £10,195 |
| Wigan | £228,163 | £25,885 | £84,217 |
| Wiltshire | £261,242 | £51,038 | £298,032 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £68,276 | £0 | £17,528 |
| Wirral | £257,990 | £0 | £150,209 |
| Wokingham | £57,546 | £0 | £13,194 |
| Wolverhampton | £197,247 | £0 | £32,714 |
| Worcestershire | £341,713 | £232,658 | £99,756 |
| York | £104,866 | £13,746 | £44,046 |
| Total | £34,410,000 | £10,950,000 | £12,000,000 |
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In addition to the funding outlined here, these services are also supported through the Local Government Finance Settlement. ↩
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2020 to 2021 funding level as per the Care Act 2014 Impact Assessment. ↩