Guidance

Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination 2026 to 2027

Published 8 May 2026

Applies to England

Crisis and Resilience Fund Grant Determination (2026-27): 31/8363

The Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness (“the Minister”), 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 Crisis and Resilience (Revenue) Fund (2026/27): 31/8363.

Purpose of the grant

2. This ringfenced grant will support local authorities in England to provide preventative support to communities and assist people when faced with financial crisis. The objective of this fund is both to provide a safety net for those on low incomes who encounter a financial shock, and to invest in building local financial resilience to enable individuals and communities to better deal with crises in the long-term.

Determination

3. The Minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set out in Annex A of this determination.

4. The grant will be paid in 12 monthly instalments.

Grant conditions

5. Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Minister determines that the grant will be paid in respect of the period 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027 and subject to the conditions in Annex B.

Treasury consent

6. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Local Government and Homelessness at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Max Soule, Deputy Director Funding Strategy
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

April 2026

Annex A: Crisis and Resilience Fund allocations to local authorities 2026-27

Authorities to which grant is to be paid:

Local Authority	Crisis and Resilience Fund 2026-27 (£)
England[footnote 1]	858,004,578
Adur	101,568
Amber Valley	145,832
Arun	261,803
Ashfield	181,124
Ashford	226,544
Babergh	100,954
Barking And Dagenham	4,811,017
Barnet	6,089,899
Barnsley	4,741,392
Basildon	374,950
Basingstoke And Deane	262,759
Bassetlaw	151,415
Bath And North East Somerset	1,684,259
Bedford	2,574,354
Bexley	2,655,817
Birmingham	28,665,861
Blaby	73,991
Blackburn with Darwen	3,669,014
Blackpool	3,790,566
Bolsover	112,129
Bolton	6,054,963
Boston	91,185
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	4,784,958
Bracknell Forest	906,788
Bradford	12,723,567
Braintree	205,562
Breckland	167,679
Brent	7,793,214
Brentwood	102,118
Brighton And Hove	3,981,889
Bristol	7,160,262
Broadland	97,560
Bromley	2,980,633
Bromsgrove	73,446
Broxbourne	288,688
Broxtowe	99,168
Buckinghamshire Council	4,884,703
Burnley	182,420
Bury	2,951,683
Calderdale	3,688,911
Cambridge	162,079
Cambridgeshire	6,057,615
Camden	3,601,392
Cannock Chase	104,641
Canterbury	229,471
Castle Point	168,531
Central Bedfordshire	2,731,231
Charnwood	159,779
Chelmsford	230,781
Cheltenham	124,412
Cherwell	215,427
Cheshire East	3,998,376
Cheshire West and Chester	4,369,344
Chesterfield	166,995
Chichester	167,125
Chorley	126,407
City of London	102,594
Colchester	298,437
Cornwall	9,838,580
Cotswold	82,456
Coventry	6,583,139
Crawley	258,927
Croydon	6,609,624
Cumberland	4,549,512
Dacorum	276,569
Darlington	1,854,005
Dartford	205,619
Derby	4,760,506
Derbyshire	9,319,870
Derbyshire Dales	67,004
Devon	9,738,560
Doncaster	6,109,419
Dorset Council	4,607,063
Dover	205,739
Dudley	4,902,327
Durham	10,079,570
Ealing	7,282,995
East Cambridgeshire	78,538
East Devon	171,917
East Hampshire	102,094
East Hertfordshire	188,695
East Lindsey	250,472
East Riding of Yorkshire	3,839,661
East Staffordshire	137,368
East Suffolk	350,762
East Sussex	7,295,840
Eastbourne	273,884
Eastleigh	140,122
Elmbridge	217,501
Enfield	7,383,835
Epping Forest	123,632
Epsom And Ewell	126,779
Erewash	138,256
Essex	16,866,968
Exeter	156,100
Fareham	98,626
Fenland	153,768
Folkestone and Hythe	237,176
Forest of Dean	86,914
Fylde	93,001
Gateshead	3,637,698
Gedling	121,349
Gloucester	219,955
Gloucestershire	6,324,525
Gosport	78,924
Gravesham	206,271
Great Yarmouth	208,116
Greenwich	4,745,278
Guildford	168,897
Hackney	6,132,788
Halton	2,640,491
Hammersmith And Fulham	2,927,773
Hampshire	11,035,376
Harborough	59,774
Haringey	5,932,135
Harlow	197,225
Harrow	3,453,868
Hart	98,929
Hartlepool	2,357,132
Hastings	257,988
Havant	195,483
Havering	3,142,472
Herefordshire	2,772,159
Hertfordshire	9,299,527
Hertsmere	245,414
High Peak	95,837
Hillingdon	4,601,567
Hinckley And Bosworth	93,489
Horsham	148,219
Hounslow	5,143,304
Huntingdonshire	188,230
Hyndburn	156,229
Ipswich	237,609
Isle of Wight	2,318,851
Islington	4,074,602
Kensington And Chelsea	2,293,435
Kent	20,169,772
King’s Lynn And West Norfolk	219,853
Kingston upon Hull	6,448,804
Kingston upon Thames	1,435,770
Kirklees	7,089,290
Knowsley	3,785,815
Lambeth	5,203,733
Lancashire	17,693,881
Lancaster	222,654
Leeds	12,937,865
Leicester	8,307,340
Leicestershire	5,618,581
Lewes	190,120
Lewisham	5,382,908
Lichfield	87,016
Lincoln	160,210
Lincolnshire	11,746,925
Liverpool	12,071,972
Luton	4,546,333
Maidstone	266,733
Maldon	69,661
Malvern Hills	88,975
Manchester	14,534,015
Mansfield	117,288
Medway	4,590,200
Melton	42,087
Merton	2,258,442
Mid Devon	91,675
Mid Suffolk	83,293
Mid Sussex	171,437
Middlesbrough	3,999,285
Milton Keynes	3,728,611
Mole Valley	87,913
New Forest	231,962
Newark And Sherwood	129,085
Newcastle upon Tyne	5,926,621
Newcastle-under-Lyme	133,655
Newham	8,231,035
Norfolk	14,309,555
North Devon	141,806
North East Derbyshire	116,929
North East Lincolnshire	3,024,922
North Hertfordshire	163,694
North Kesteven	101,125
North Lincolnshire	2,613,418
North Norfolk	124,140
North Northamptonshire	4,501,233
North Somerset	2,374,043
North Tyneside	2,901,642
North Warwickshire	71,878
North West Leicestershire	96,130
North Yorkshire	7,706,465
Northumberland	5,080,534
Norwich	304,090
Nottingham	7,064,524
Nottinghamshire	9,394,912
Nuneaton And Bedworth	198,637
Oadby And Wigston	64,894
Oldham	5,746,924
Oxford	289,759
Oxfordshire	5,261,863
Pendle	132,070
Peterborough	4,054,245
Plymouth	4,202,386
Portsmouth	3,691,344
Preston	257,508
Reading	2,335,307
Redbridge	4,603,993
Redcar And Cleveland	2,703,374
Redditch	97,319
Reigate And Banstead	206,468
Ribble Valley	42,611
Richmond upon Thames	1,396,517
Rochdale	5,026,685
Rochford	99,151
Rossendale	86,228
Rother	165,877
Rotherham	5,172,547
Rugby	130,274
Runnymede	133,247
Rushcliffe	95,530
Rushmoor	182,275
Rutland	287,712
Salford	6,019,132
Sandwell	7,598,616
Sefton	4,649,274
Sevenoaks	161,590
Sheffield	9,970,109
Shropshire	4,432,278
Slough	2,735,315
Solihull	2,411,055
Somerset	8,327,956
South Cambridgeshire	126,149
South Derbyshire	101,291
South Gloucestershire	2,412,469
South Hams	107,935
South Holland	104,528
South Kesteven	178,714
South Norfolk	135,869
South Oxfordshire	152,240
South Ribble	102,168
South Staffordshire	102,109
South Tyneside	3,018,223
Southampton	4,280,879
Southend-on-Sea	2,980,503
Southwark	5,081,089
Spelthorne	227,664
St Albans	160,580
St. Helens	3,492,948
Stafford	111,493
Staffordshire	8,915,996
Staffordshire Moorlands	78,090
Stevenage	163,433
Stockport	3,502,232
Stockton-on-Tees	3,387,392
Stoke-on-Trent	5,631,938
Stratford-on-Avon	134,655
Stroud	70,000
Suffolk	10,091,252
Sunderland	5,685,004
Surrey	7,278,801
Surrey Heath	90,691
Sutton	2,069,043
Swale	306,798
Swindon	2,762,621
Tameside	4,503,547
Tamworth	115,958
Tandridge	127,742
Teignbridge	188,898
Telford And Wrekin	3,153,544
Tendring	344,772
Test Valley	137,537
Tewkesbury	82,319
Thanet	382,870
Three Rivers	142,512
Thurrock	2,576,110
Tonbridge And Malling	180,864
Torbay	2,494,294
Torridge	85,370
Tower Hamlets	7,036,945
Trafford	2,371,532
Tunbridge Wells	146,241
Uttlesford	90,283
Vale of White Horse	136,583
Wakefield	6,310,827
Walsall	5,938,788
Waltham Forest	4,601,103
Wandsworth	3,772,613
Warrington	2,288,251
Warwick	135,990
Warwickshire	5,910,784
Watford	235,750
Waverley	127,156
Wealden	195,144
Welwyn Hatfield	206,200
West Berkshire	1,416,730
West Devon	143,265
West Lancashire	170,423
West Lindsey	125,365
Westmorland and Furness	3,028,308
West Northamptonshire	4,946,471
West Oxfordshire	120,984
West Suffolk	199,062
West Sussex	8,078,222
Westminster	3,800,595
Wigan	5,435,002
Wiltshire	5,195,152
Winchester	119,428
Windsor And Maidenhead	1,020,378
Wirral	5,758,438
Woking	147,540
Wokingham	815,879
Wolverhampton	5,807,474
Worcester	141,844
Worcestershire	6,527,725
Worthing	176,497
Wychavon	132,870
Wyre	163,685
Wyre Forest	131,951
York	1,610,456

Annex B: Grant conditions

Eligible expenditure

1. This grant is ringfenced for the Crisis and Resilience Fund. The Authority is to ensure that the grant is used to provide support for low-income households who encounter a financial shock, and to support activity that builds individual and community financial resilience. This includes through the provision of Crisis Payments, Housing Payments, Resilience Services and Community Coordination.

2. The grant is paid to the Authority to support eligible expenditure only (see paragraphs 4 to 7 below); and on the basis overall that the provision of grant funding remains subject to the Minister’s ongoing satisfaction that all grant usage by the Authority complies fully with the relevant conditions, in consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whose department continues to own the guidance and monitoring arrangements for the Crisis and Resilience Fund.

3. The Authority must have regard to any guidance issued by the Department for Work and Pensions or sources of information and data available to it that may assist in the decision-making regarding the Scheme.

4. Unless the Minister, in consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, decides otherwise (for all Authorities or any one Authority), the Authority must determine eligibility for assistance under the Scheme and the means by which assistance will be provided (whether directly by the Authority or through a third party) and use the grant monies as follows:

a. the Authority is to ensure that Crisis Payments are primarily allocated to support essential living needs in accordance with the Scheme guidance;

b. the Authority must make Housing Payments to support those needing help with housing costs who are entitled to Universal Credit (UC) Housing Element or Housing Benefit (HB). Further detail on the funding that Authorities are expected to spend on Housing Payments has been included in guidance set out by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

c. the Authority may allocate Crisis Payments to pay housing costs incurred by occupiers or prospective occupiers where Housing Payments are not payable, as set out in the Scheme guidance;

d. the Authority, during the Grant Period, is to facilitate applications for assistance under the Scheme from individuals who are eligible for assistance in its area;

e. the Authority must, in accordance with the Scheme guidance, allocate a portion of the grant to provide support that will improve, beyond the Grant Period, the financial resilience of households, including those households who are not struggling to meet their immediate essential living costs, and prevent vulnerable households from falling into, or further falling into, crisis. Such activities may include the provision of advice to individuals in meeting their essential living needs and investing in community coordination to connect and enhance the local support landscape. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not include using the Fund to deliver and maintain activity for which the Authority is already receiving funding from HM Government.

5. Nothing in this paragraph 4(e) shall preclude the Authority from supplementing or expanding through the Fund existing provision delivered by the Authority, which the Authority is able to do where it aligns with the Crisis and Resilience Fund policy intent.

6. If the Authority or any third party incurs any of the following costs, they must be excluded from eligible expenditure:

a. contributions in kind;

b. payments for activities of a political or exclusively religious nature;

c. depreciation, amortisation or impairment of fixed assets;

d. input VAT reclaimable from HM Revenue & Customs;

e. interest payments or service charge payments for finance leases;

f. gifts, other than promotional items with a value of no more than £10 in a year to any one person;

g. entertaining (entertaining for this purpose means anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations);

h. statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties; or

i. payments under the Scheme procured by fraud or otherwise paid as a result of financial irregularity as defined by paragraph 17.

and, for the avoidance of doubt, the exclusions at a) and f) above do not apply to the provision of direct assistance, including food and in-kind support, to the intended eligible beneficiaries of the Scheme.

7. The Authority must not deliberately incur liabilities for eligible expenditure before there is an operational need for it to do so.

Payment arrangements

8. The grant will be paid by monthly instalments. The funding received by the Authorities will be made up of 3 component parts. For 2026-27 and 2027-28, the allocations include:

a. For unitary authorities – funding for crisis and resilience activities, housing payments and local authority housing administration costs;

b. For upper tier authorities – funding for crisis and resilience activities;

c. For lower tier authorities – funding for housing payments and local authority housing administration costs.

9. For 2028-29 – only unitary and upper tier authorities will receive funding for all components of the Crisis and Resilience Fund and there will be no housing admin allocation.

10. If at any time the Authority becomes aware that the payment arrangements will affect the delivery of the Scheme, the Authority must inform the Department for Work and Pensions as soon as possible. The Minister (in consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) reserves the right to alter the timing or amount of grant payments accordingly.

Statement of Grant Usage

11. The Authority must prepare a Statement of Grant Usage to be submitted to the Department for Work and Pensions at a time and in a form requested by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The Statement of Grant Usage must provide details of eligible expenditure in the Grant Period. The Statement of Grant Usage must be certified by the Authority’s Section 151 officer that, to the best of the officer’s knowledge, the amounts shown on the Statement are all eligible expenditure and that the grant has been used for the purposes intended.

12. The Authority must comply with requests for a validation or audit from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions which will be carried out by officers of the Department for Work and Pensions or an appropriately qualified independent accountant or auditor, on the use of the grant.

13. The Authority must provide delivery plans to the Department for Work and Pensions setting out their approach for use of the Crisis and Resilience Fund, demonstrating the ways in which they intend to allocate their funding to achieve progress against the expected outcomes of the Crisis and Resilience Fund.

Progress Report and Management Information Return

14. The Authority must provide a Progress Report and Management Information Return with the Statement of Grant Usage in a form directed, and subject to the guidance issued, by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

15. The Authority must comply with DWP’s reporting and Management Information (MI) requirements, which is set out in the Crisis and Resilience Fund (April 2026 – March 2029) MI Reporting Requirements document. MI will be collected on a six-monthly basis.

Financial management

16. The Authority must maintain a sound system of internal governance and financial controls in relation to the grant.

17. If the Authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this Determination, it must notify the Department for Work and Pensions immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the Department informed about the progress of the investigation.

Records

18. The Authority must maintain reliable, accessible and up to date accounting records with an adequate audit trail for all expenditure funded by grant monies under this Determination.

19. The Authority and any person acting on behalf of the Authority must allow:  a) the Comptroller and Auditor General or appointed representatives, or b) the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions or appointed representatives, free access at all reasonable times to all documents (including computerised documents and data) and other information as are connected to the grant, or to the purposes for which grant monies were used, subject to the provisions in paragraph 20.

20. The documents, data and information referred to in paragraph 19 include such which the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions or the Comptroller and Auditor General may reasonably require for the purposes of ‘spot checking’ administrative costs or significant amounts paid under the Scheme or a financial audit of any department or other public body or for carrying out examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which any department or other public body has used its resources. The Authority must provide such further explanations as are reasonably required for these purposes.

21. Paragraphs 19 and 20 do not constitute a requirement for the examination, certification or inspection of the accounts of the Authority by the Comptroller and Auditor General under section 6(3) of the National Audit Act 1983. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Comptroller and Auditor General will seek access in a measured manner to minimise any burden on the Authority and will avoid duplication of effort by seeking and sharing information with local auditors.

22. Authorities are required to work with the Department for Work and Pensions, and the research contractor commissioned by the Department, to support the evaluation of the Crisis and Resilience Fund. This includes agreeing appropriate data sharing arrangements.

Breach of Conditions and Recovery of Grant

23. If the Authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment is made in relation to this grant or any amount is paid in error, or if any of the events set out in paragraph 24 occurs, the Minister (in consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) 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  Minister (in consultation with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) and notified in writing to the Authority. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Minister who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the Authority from central government.

24. The events referred to in paragraph 23 are:

a. the Authority purports to transfer or assign any rights, interests or obligations arising under this Determination without the prior agreement of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

b. any information provided in any application for grant monies payable under this Determination, or in any subsequent supporting correspondence, is found to be significantly incorrect or incomplete in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions;

c. it appears to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions that other circumstances have arisen or events have occurred that are likely to significantly affect the Authority’s ability to deliver the Scheme;

d. the Authority’s Section 151 officer is unable to provide reasonable assurance that the Statement of Grant Usage, in all material respects, fairly presents the eligible expenditure in the Grant Period in accordance with the definitions and conditions in this Determination; or

e. the Authority fails to provide the Statement of Grant Usage and a Progress Report and Management Information Return in accordance with the Grant Conditions.

25. The Authority must comply with requests for information, accommodate site visits and support with requests to undertake audits where requested.

Communications

26. The Authority shall at all times during and following the end of the Grant Period:

a. comply with requirements of the Branding Manual in relation to activity under the Scheme; and
b. comply with requests from the Department for Work and Pensions to cease use of the Funded by UK Government logo on demand.

27. The Authority must publish on their website, and by any other appropriate means, such information as it considers sufficient to enable the general public to understand the Scheme (including the Authority’s eligibility criteria and how the Scheme can be accessed) in accordance with the Scheme guidance.

28. Authorities will be required to promote awareness of their plans for the Crisis and Resilience Fund, administer a ‘Crisis Payment’ scheme, administer a ‘Housing Payment’ scheme (where this falls within their remit), use the name ‘Crisis and Resilience Fund’, ensure that the scheme remains accessible and provide a website page that is dedicated to the Crisis and Resilience Fund.

1. The England total does not include the allocation for the Isles of Scilly (£19,855). The Isles of Scilly will receive funding for the Crisis and Resilience Fund through a separate single un-ringfenced Section 31 grant which will also include their funding for the Homelessness, Rough Sleeping and Domestic Abuse Grant and the Children, Families and Youth Grant. ↩