Discharge Fund Grant Determination 2023 to 2024
Updated 4 April 2023
Applies to England
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Adult Social Care Discharge Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6645
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety (“Parliamentary Under-Secretary 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 Adult Social Care Discharge Fund (revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6645.
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, up to 31 March 2024.
3. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is providing this funding to support local authorities to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.
Determination
4. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State determines as the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid, the authorities and the amounts set out in Annex A.
Grant conditions
5. Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State determines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions in Annex B.
Treasury consent
6. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.
Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety
Lucy Pedrick, Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
April 2023
Annex A: Discharge Fund allocations to local authorities 2023-24
| Local authority* | Discharge Fund 2023-24 |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | £1,501,105 |
| Barnet | £1,348,922 |
| Barnsley | £1,885,752 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £687,394 |
| Bedford | £477,349 |
| Bexley | £927,572 |
| Birmingham | £9,522,046 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £1,170,528 |
| Blackpool | £1,524,702 |
| Bolton | £2,085,475 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | £1,884,092 |
| Bracknell Forest | £213,785 |
| Bradford | £3,279,003 |
| Brent | £1,870,905 |
| Brighton And Hove | £1,326,152 |
| Bristol | £2,385,577 |
| Bromley | £1,083,806 |
| Buckinghamshire Council | £706,716 |
| Bury | £1,069,497 |
| Calderdale | £1,182,770 |
| Cambridgeshire | £2,126,993 |
| Camden | £1,804,922 |
| Central Bedfordshire | £390,072 |
| Cheshire East | £1,220,549 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £1,517,647 |
| City of London | £45,376 |
| Cornwall | £3,414,724 |
| Coventry | £2,213,359 |
| Croydon | £1,398,916 |
| Cumberland** | £2,049,198 |
| Darlington | £629,230 |
| Derby | £1,688,692 |
| Derbyshire | £5,009,663 |
| Devon | £4,083,537 |
| Doncaster | £2,286,690 |
| Dorset Council | £1,745,550 |
| Dudley | £2,331,178 |
| Durham | £4,327,485 |
| Ealing | £1,777,649 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £1,629,271 |
| East Sussex | £3,053,047 |
| Enfield | £1,643,969 |
| Essex | £6,502,485 |
| Gateshead | £1,596,389 |
| Gloucestershire | £2,807,428 |
| Greenwich | £2,163,846 |
| Hackney | £2,332,446 |
| Halton | £978,876 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £1,405,803 |
| Hampshire | £4,385,327 |
| Haringey | £1,374,842 |
| Harrow | £934,218 |
| Hartlepool | £751,216 |
| Havering | £956,848 |
| Herefordshire | £950,944 |
| Hertfordshire | £3,302,374 |
| Hillingdon | £1,046,974 |
| Hounslow | £1,146,016 |
| Isle of Wight | £866,442 |
| Isles of Scilly | £11,425 |
| Islington | £2,033,004 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £1,074,192 |
| Kent | £7,011,978 |
| Kingston upon Hull | £2,512,415 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £257,944 |
| Kirklees | £2,498,584 |
| Knowsley | £1,700,926 |
| Lambeth | £2,095,464 |
| Lancashire | £7,703,479 |
| Leeds | £4,435,973 |
| Leicester | £2,461,390 |
| Leicestershire | £2,480,197 |
| Lewisham | £2,094,804 |
| Lincolnshire | £4,802,736 |
| Liverpool | £5,047,105 |
| Luton | £1,048,812 |
| Manchester | £4,451,204 |
| Medway | £1,024,501 |
| Merton | £702,349 |
| Middlesbrough | £1,212,138 |
| Milton Keynes | £865,887 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £2,365,639 |
| Newham | £2,410,372 |
| Norfolk | £5,554,461 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £1,129,800 |
| North Lincolnshire | £1,014,719 |
| North Northamptonshire | £1,615,567 |
| North Somerset | £979,406 |
| North Tyneside | £1,342,893 |
| North Yorkshire** | £2,429,421 |
| Northumberland | £1,751,885 |
| Nottingham | £2,327,688 |
| Nottinghamshire | £4,334,983 |
| Oldham | £1,568,487 |
| Oxfordshire | £1,500,865 |
| Peterborough | £1,048,665 |
| Plymouth | £1,813,195 |
| Portsmouth | £1,208,018 |
| Reading | £377,502 |
| Redbridge | £1,413,390 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £971,294 |
| Richmond upon Thames | £108,854 |
| Rochdale | £1,721,354 |
| Rotherham | £2,030,150 |
| Rutland | £30,678 |
| Salford | £1,975,013 |
| Sandwell | £3,227,569 |
| Sefton | £2,204,747 |
| Sheffield | £4,106,385 |
| Shropshire | £1,663,231 |
| Slough | £559,310 |
| Solihull | £903,857 |
| Somerset** | £3,276,804 |
| South Gloucestershire | £649,489 |
| South Tyneside | £1,469,985 |
| Southampton | £1,500,795 |
| Southend-on-Sea | £1,093,197 |
| Southwark | £2,502,171 |
| St. Helens | £1,470,514 |
| Staffordshire | £4,585,762 |
| Stockport | £1,361,507 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | £1,005,490 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £2,158,741 |
| Suffolk | £4,066,814 |
| Sunderland | £2,619,438 |
| Surrey | £1,599,433 |
| Sutton | £570,194 |
| Swindon | £756,439 |
| Tameside | £1,764,424 |
| Telford and Wrekin | £1,096,851 |
| Thurrock | £780,830 |
| Torbay | £1,239,014 |
| Tower Hamlets | £2,356,781 |
| Trafford | £1,153,050 |
| Wakefield | £2,442,604 |
| Walsall | £1,988,154 |
| Waltham Forest | £1,329,977 |
| Wandsworth | £2,381,301 |
| Warrington | £870,761 |
| Warwickshire | £2,121,662 |
| West Berkshire | £113,070 |
| Westmorland and Furness** | £1,304,384 |
| West Northamptonshire | £1,411,663 |
| West Sussex | £2,889,864 |
| Westminster | £2,474,364 |
| Wigan | £2,350,163 |
| Wiltshire | £1,435,926 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £316,342 |
| Wirral | £2,697,262 |
| Wokingham | £66,150 |
| Wolverhampton | £2,069,492 |
| Worcestershire | £2,667,200 |
| York | £75,2697 |
| England | £300,000,000 |
*Funding paid to local authorities with responsibility for social care only.
**On 1 April 2023 the following unitary authorities will be established:
- Cumberland, comprising the areas of Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
- Westmorland and Furness, comprising the areas of Barrow-in-Furness, Eden, South Lakeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
- North Yorkshire, comprising the areas of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby.
- Somerset, comprising the areas of Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset and Somerset West and Taunton.
Allocations may not sum to exact totals due to rounding.
Annex B: Grant conditions
1. In this Annex:
a. “a recipient authority” means a local authority listed in Annex A to this determination;
b. “the Department” means the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities;
c. “the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State” means the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety;
d. “the BCF” is the Better Care Fund.
Use of grant
2. A recipient authority must:
a. Pool this funding into the local BCF, with plans for health and social care spend (including mental health) agreed by the local authorities and Integrated Care Board Chief Executives by 28 June 2023 and signed off by the Health and Wellbeing Board under national condition 1 of the BCF.
b. Use this funding, in conjunction with wider funding (including relevant BCF investment) to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.
c. Plan how best to deploy this funding over the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, taking account of likely variation in levels of demand over the course of the year, including winter pressures. Recipient authorities must work with local providers to determine how best to build the workforce capacity needed for additional services.
d. Deploy the funding in ways that support the principles of ‘Discharge to Assess’, to enable timely discharge from hospital with appropriate short-term support, where needed, pending assessment of long-term care needs.
e. Deploy the funding in ways that take account of learning from previous discharge funding.
f. Submit plans for how they intend to deploy the funding and comply with the reporting requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Annex.
3. A recipient authority must not:
a. Use this funding to compensate for expenditure already incurred, activities for which the local authority has already earmarked or allocated expenditure, or to fund inflationary pressures.
b. Use this funding for activities which do not support the primary purpose of this grant.
4. The Grant Recipient shall at all times during and following the end of the Funding Period:
a. Comply with requirements of the Branding Manual in relation to the Funded Activities; and
b. Cease use of the Funded by UK Government logo on demand if directed to do so by the Authority.
5. Branding Manual means the HM Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ‘Funded by UK Government branding manual’ first published by the Cabinet Office in November 2022 including any subsequent updates from time to time.
Reporting requirements
6. Recipient authorities will be required to work with their Integrated Care Board to provide the following to the BCF programme team, as part of their BCF plan, using compulsory templates made available through the BCF exchange:
a. A report detailing how the recipient authority plans to spend all their allocation over 2023-24, due by 28 June 2023. This must outline how the recipient authority plans to increase expenditure on discharge in comparison to their BCF plan and confirm that the use of the funding has been agreed by the local authority and the Integrated Care Board. One planned spending report must be submitted per local authority;
b. Fortnightly activity reports, setting out what activities have been delivered. The first report will need to be submitted on 24 April 2023, and fortnightly thereafter; and,
c. A final spending report provided to the Department of Health and Social Care alongside the wider end of year BCF reports.
7. Government may follow up with recipient authorities to understand and/or challenge the planning approach. This may happen if:
a. Spending plans provided under paragraph 4 above are in breach of funding conditions; or,
b. Data shows that delayed discharges are significantly higher or increasing at a greater rate than national averages.
8. Recipient authorities must engage fully with this process where necessary. Integrated Care Boards (including relevant trusts) and local authorities will be expected to implement recommendations provided by the support programme teams.
9. Recipient authorities may use up to 2% of their total allocation for reasonable administrative costs associated with distributing and reporting on this funding.
Payment arrangements
10. Funding can be used to support expenditure from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 and will be distributed in monthly payments throughout the year.
Financial management
11. The recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.
12. If a recipient authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this funding agreement, it must notify the department immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the department informed about the progress of the investigation. For these purposes ‘financial irregularity’ includes fraud or other impropriety, mismanagement, and the use of grant for purposes other than those for which it was provided.
Breach of conditions and recovery of grant
13. If a recipient authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment is made under this grant, or any amount is paid in error, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State may reduce, suspend or withhold grant payments or require the repayment of the whole or any part of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and notified in writing to the local authority.
14. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the local authority from central government.