Guidance

Care Quality Commission review and assessment of local authority functions in relation to adult social care 2023 to 2024: grant determination (no 31/6821)

Published 21 September 2023

Applies to England

The Minister of State for Health and 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

This determination may be cited as the Care Quality Commission review and assessment of local authority functions relating to adult social care 2023 to 2024 (no 31/6821).

Purpose of the grant

The purpose of this non-repeating grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by the new burden of engaging with Care Quality Commission review and assessment for the first time. This includes the time and resource needed for local authorities to familiarise themselves with and effectively engage with their first formal assessment. The duty on the Care Quality Commission to review and assess local authorities’ delivery of their functions in relation to adult social care under part 1 of the Care Act 2014 commenced in April 2023. This grant is worth £4.1 million.

Determination

The Minister of State determines:

  • the authorities to which the grant is to be paid
  • the amount of grant to be paid

The authorities and amounts are set out in Annex A.

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 Health and Social Care
Christina Bankes, Deputy Director within the Department of Health and Social Care

Annex A: grant allocations 2023 to 2024

Methodology

This grant is allocated on a flat cash basis to all local authorities. The grant is being allocated in this way as the Care Quality Commission’s approach to local authority assessments will be the same for all local authorities when they are formally assessed for the first time.

Allocations by local authority

Each local authority will receive an equal allocation of funding, £26,730.

Authorities to which grants is to be paid Amount of grant to be paid
Barking and Dagenham £26,730
Barnet £26,730
Barnsley £26,730
Bath and North East Somerset £26,730
Bedford £26,730
Bexley £26,730
Birmingham £26,730
Blackburn with Darwen £26,730
Blackpool £26,730
Bolton £26,730
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £26,730
Bracknell Forest £26,730
Bradford £26,730
Brent £26,730
Brighton and Hove £26,730
Bristol, City of £26,730
Bromley £26,730
Buckinghamshire £26,730
Bury £26,730
Calderdale £26,730
Cambridgeshire £26,730
Camden £26,730
Central Bedfordshire £26,730
Cheshire East £26,730
Cheshire West and Chester £26,730
City of London £26,730
Cornwall £26,730
County Durham £26,730
Coventry £26,730
Croydon £26,730
Cumberland £26,730
Darlington £26,730
Derby £26,730
Derbyshire £26,730
Devon £26,730
Doncaster £26,730
Dorset £26,730
Dudley £26,730
Ealing £26,730
East Riding of Yorkshire £26,730
East Sussex £26,730
Enfield £26,730
Essex £26,730
Gateshead £26,730
Gloucestershire £26,730
Greenwich £26,730
Hackney £26,730
Halton £26,730
Hammersmith and Fulham £26,730
Hampshire £26,730
Haringey £26,730
Harrow £26,730
Hartlepool £26,730
Havering £26,730
Herefordshire, County of £26,730
Hertfordshire £26,730
Hillingdon £26,730
Hounslow £26,730
Isle of Wight £26,730
Isles of Scilly £26,730
Islington £26,730
Kensington and Chelsea £26,730
Kent £26,730
Kingston upon Hull, City of £26,730
Kingston upon Thames £26,730
Kirklees £26,730
Knowsley £26,730
Lambeth £26,730
Lancashire £26,730
Leeds £26,730
Leicester £26,730
Leicestershire £26,730
Lewisham £26,730
Lincolnshire £26,730
Liverpool £26,730
Luton £26,730
Manchester £26,730
Medway £26,730
Merton £26,730
Middlesbrough £26,730
Milton Keynes £26,730
Newcastle upon Tyne £26,730
Newham £26,730
Norfolk £26,730
North East Lincolnshire £26,730
North Lincolnshire £26,730
North Northamptonshire £26,730
North Somerset £26,730
North Tyneside £26,730
North Yorkshire £26,730
Northumberland £26,730
Nottingham £26,730
Nottinghamshire £26,730
Oldham £26,730
Oxfordshire £26,730
Peterborough £26,730
Plymouth £26,730
Portsmouth £26,730
Reading £26,730
Redbridge £26,730
Redcar and Cleveland £26,730
Richmond upon Thames £26,730
Rochdale £26,730
Rotherham £26,730
Rutland £26,730
Salford £26,730
Sandwell £26,730
Sefton £26,730
Sheffield £26,730
Shropshire £26,730
Slough £26,730
Solihull £26,730
Somerset £26,730
South Gloucestershire £26,730
South Tyneside £26,730
Southampton £26,730
Southend-on-Sea £26,730
Southwark £26,730
St Helens £26,730
Staffordshire £26,730
Stockport £26,730
Stockton-on-Tees £26,730
Stoke-on-Trent £26,730
Suffolk £26,730
Sunderland £26,730
Surrey £26,730
Sutton £26,730
Swindon £26,730
Tameside £26,730
Telford and Wrekin £26,730
Thurrock £26,730
Torbay £26,730
Tower Hamlets £26,730
Trafford £26,730
Wakefield £26,730
Walsall £26,730
Waltham Forest £26,730
Wandsworth £26,730
Warrington £26,730
Warwickshire £26,730
West Berkshire £26,730
West Northamptonshire £26,730
West Sussex £26,730
Westminster £26,730
Westmorland and Furness £26,730
Wigan £26,730
Wiltshire £26,730
Windsor and Maidenhead £26,730
Wirral £26,730
Wokingham £26,730
Wolverhampton £26,730
Worcestershire £26,730
York £26,730