Guidance

Grant allocations 2024 to 2025

Published 7 November 2024

Applies to England

Methodology

Local Reform and Community Voices grant

The Local Reform and Community Voices grant is allocated using the adult social care relative needs formula (ASC RNF) and is comprised of the following:

  • additional funding for deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) in hospitals
  • additional local Healthwatch funding - the allocations for this have a minimum amount of £10,000 per local authority
  • funding for independent complaints advisory services

For the Local Reform and Community Voices grant allocations set out below for Dorset, and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, a grant-specific percentage of the allocation for the old Dorset County Council were transferred to the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Unitary Authority in agreement with the councils affected when these unitary authorities were first established in April 2019.

Social Care in Prisons grant

The distribution approach of the Social Care in Prisons grant is as set out in the response to the consultation on funding formulae for implementation of the Care Act in 2015 to 2016.

The prisons allocations for 2024 to 2025 are based on reported prison populations (total and by age categories) at 31 March 2024 that has been adjusted for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) estimated average prison capacity across 2024 to 2025. The first receptions data reflects the populations for the year April 2023 to March 2024 inclusive[footnote 1].

The allocations include considerations for the area cost adjustment to account for the local variations in the cost of delivering services. The allocations for prisons located within the same local authority, based on prison postcodes, are aggregated to the local authority level allocations.

War Pensions Disregard grant

The allocations of the War Pensions Scheme Disregard grant are as set out in the response to the consultation on allocating 2017 to 2018 funding to disregard war pensions in social care financial assessments.

The allocations for 2024 to 2025 are based on the ASC RNF, weighted to the War Pensioner populations by local authority at 31 March 2023.

Allocations by local authority

Where the ASC RNF has been used as part of allocation calculations, the same ASC RNF allocation shares have been used as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s final local government finance settlement for 2024 to 2025 (when there were changes to local authority) unless otherwise stated.

This applies to the local authority changes in April 2019 (Dorset, and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authorities), in April 2021 (North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire unitary authorities) and in April 2023 (Cumberland, and Westmorland and Furness unitary authorities).

Table 1: local authority allocations by grant

Local authority Local Reform and Community Voices grant 2024 to 2025 Social Care in Prisons grant 2024 to 2025 War Pensions Disregard grant 2024 to 2025
Barking and Dagenham £130,841 £0 £6,400
Barnet £207,423 £0 £8,972
Barnsley £177,461 £0 £88,810
Bath and North East Somerset £104,572 £0 £26,727
Bedford £88,961 £73,222 £14,944
Bexley £133,034 £0 £12,836
Birmingham £802,513 £148,745 £81,346
Blackburn with Darwen £109,539 £0 £25,493
Blackpool £129,496 £0 £90,871
Bolton £199,200 £0 £47,058
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £250,468 £0 £118,327
Bracknell Forest £51,851 £0 £14,390
Bradford £329,186 £0 £59,824
Brent £192,454 £0 £3,845
Brighton and Hove £176,065 £0 £20,950
Bristol, City of £290,662 £102,884 £45,289
Bromley £170,590 £0 £18,029
Buckinghamshire £239,497 £80,817 £50,949
Bury £117,033 £0 £29,491
Calderdale £131,922 £0 £31,021
Cambridgeshire £333,033 £300,385 £109,892
Camden £184,247 £0 £7,062
Central Bedfordshire £124,092 £0 £25,277
Cheshire East £207,874 £67,956 £58,635
Cheshire West and Chester £210,250 £0 £91,948
City of London £14,119 £0 £432
Cornwall £400,287 £0 £372,939
County Durham £404,441 £383,807 £277,556
Coventry £222,264 £0 £32,123
Croydon £200,809 £0 £14,225
Cumberland £195,356 £112,474 £102,049
Darlington £71,817 £0 £59,676
Derby £164,588 £0 £41,338
Derbyshire £519,787 £95,202 £165,105
Devon £512,368 £203,729 £450,034
Doncaster £216,364 £421,666 £127,181
Dorset £244,864 £226,110 £218,879
Dudley £223,778 £0 £29,878
Ealing £203,136 £0 £7,214
East Riding of Yorkshire £207,205 £150,188 £128,060
East Sussex £370,520 £102,637 £116,616
Enfield £186,093 £0 £8,082
Essex £848,253 £112,381 £194,340
Gateshead £162,398 £0 £82,295
Gloucestershire £362,543 £0 £172,554
Greenwich £190,627 £322,047 £18,550
Hackney £201,335 £0 £4,814
Halton £91,587 £0 £55,085
Hammersmith and Fulham £131,603 £243,546 £11,196
Hampshire £681,312 £106,320 £493,600
Haringey £164,536 £0 £4,907
Harrow £138,975 £0 £5,689
Hartlepool £71,810 £0 £52,440
Havering £144,112 £0 £12,006
Herefordshire, County of £126,191 £0 £109,768
Hertfordshire £592,455 £102,312 £69,724
Hillingdon £149,188 £0 £14,170
Hounslow £143,204 £14,768 £8,703
Isle of Wight £109,826 £220,126 £56,988
Isles of Scilly £11,069 £0 £934
Islington £184,265 £177,656 £5,803
Kensington and Chelsea £124,212 £0 £18,382
Kent £883,352 £356,779 £295,588
Kingston upon Hull, City of £208,205 £159,905 £83,513
Kingston upon Thames £82,135 £0 £4,652
Kirklees £266,518 £0 £62,584
Knowsley £140,011 £0 £72,116
Lambeth £216,226 £105,251 £12,022
Lancashire £790,742 £502,550 £370,655
Leeds £474,422 £259,396 £83,081
Leicester £225,514 £51,573 £25,470
Leicestershire £345,958 £253,402 £97,335
Lewisham £196,015 £0 £11,045
Lincolnshire £482,622 £176,315 £413,795
Liverpool £423,750 £343,944 £184,780
Luton £112,937 £0 £10,069
Manchester £382,041 £56,997 £47,709
Medway £142,993 £69,489 £51,749
Merton £107,174 £0 £11,874
Middlesbrough £108,611 £0 £48,451
Milton Keynes £130,126 £32,058 £23,583
Newcastle upon Tyne £215,066 £0 £101,146
Newham £210,422 £0 £6,042
Norfolk £598,798 £332,532 £250,836
North East Lincolnshire £111,731 £0 £50,055
North Lincolnshire £109,038 £0 £60,160
North Northamptonshire £180,856 £162,648 £60,881
North Somerset £132,399 £0 £58,265
North Tyneside £147,752 £0 £96,423
North Yorkshire £347,298 £0 £215,298
Northumberland £218,022 £151,054 £162,500
Nottingham £222,116 £170,605 £37,531
Nottinghamshire £505,423 £346,251 £223,398
Oldham £160,832 £0 £42,875
Oxfordshire £328,376 £189,699 £105,932
Peterborough £113,731 £197,396 £38,429
Plymouth £184,010 £0 £366,765
Portsmouth £127,595 £0 £81,110
Reading £81,609 £0 £10,732
Redbridge £159,918 £0 £6,439
Redcar and Cleveland £103,207 £0 £70,887
Richmond upon Thames £94,698 £0 £9,528
Rochdale £158,826 £50,597 £44,714
Rotherham £192,778 £0 £53,417
Rutland £21,457 £112,658 £15,435
Salford £188,820 £186,831 £43,046
Sandwell £264,804 £0 £26,925
Sefton £218,513 £0 £119,625
Sheffield £387,660 £0 £59,727
Shropshire £199,733 £59,943 £114,411
Slough £73,864 £0 £3,899
Solihull £124,720 £0 £19,895
Somerset £357,898 £0 £265,285
South Gloucestershire £133,991 £244,881 £38,035
South Tyneside £131,155 £0 £99,203
Southampton £158,974 £0 £31,110
Southend-on-Sea £118,079 £0 £18,483
Southwark £225,070 £0 £8,557
St. Helens £137,976 £0 £59,081
Staffordshire £507,558 £672,647 £155,040
Stockport £183,883 £0 £35,831
Stockton-on-Tees £121,121 £130,571 £67,314
Stoke-on-Trent £190,858 £0 £54,759
Suffolk £467,353 £251,193 £172,977
Sunderland £224,660 £0 £184,736
Surrey £572,425 £352,133 £113,083
Sutton £105,651 £0 £6,802
Swindon £110,233 £0 £58,301
Tameside £165,372 £0 £45,074
Telford and Wrekin £110,955 £0 £73,317
Thurrock £93,747 £0 £11,500
Torbay £118,734 £0 £89,066
Tower Hamlets £209,928 £0 £6,255
Trafford £135,518 £0 £23,035
Wakefield £236,281 £194,172 £88,803
Walsall £205,178 £0 £30,258
Waltham Forest £156,008 £0 £6,032
Wandsworth £185,923 £293,759 £9,870
Warrington £118,040 £143,157 £41,078
Warwickshire £320,212 £0 £87,624
West Berkshire £71,778 £0 £20,073
West Northamptonshire £208,502 £208,490 £58,627
West Sussex £473,380 £34,247 £125,737
Westminster £189,607 £0 £10,260
Westmorland and Furness £163,924 £0 £65,789
Wigan £228,163 £30,328 £82,901
Wiltshire £261,242 £47,488 £327,402
Windsor and Maidenhead £68,276 £0 £15,091
Wirral £257,990 £0 £140,174
Wokingham £57,546 £0 £12,510
Wolverhampton £197,247 £0 £28,157
Worcestershire £341,713 £237,928 £95,565
York £104,866 £12,155 £39,087
  1. Published prison population data from the Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023 and January to March 2024 .