This guidance applies to the second round of the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund, which operated between October 2021 and March 2022. While these funds are no longer live, this guidance is preserved here for reference, and local authority reporting and assurance purposes.

This guidance sets out:

allocations of the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund, round 2, for 2021 to 2022
the conditions that will apply to that grant
guidance intended to assist local authorities

See guidance and details for round 1 of the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund.

In January 2023 we published details of the outcomes and findings from the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Funds.

We have also published details of the outcomes from the Workforce Capacity Fund, which ran from January to March 2021, along with key findings from the fund and results of a survey of local authorities.

Published 16 December 2021
Last updated 26 January 2023 + show all updates

26 January 2023
Added a link to the outcomes and findings from the Workforce Recruitment and Retention Funds.
27 April 2022
Added note that these funds are no longer live but information on them is here for reference.
1 March 2022
Added Annex F: reporting point 2 template.
20 December 2021
Uploaded correct version of annex D.
16 December 2021
First published.

Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund for adult social care, round 2

Applies to England

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