Guidance

Grant to Streamline Local Authority Adult Social Care Assessments - 2022 to 2023: grant determination (no. 31/6585)

Updated 4 April 2023

Applies to England

The Minister of State for 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 2022 to 2023 Grant to Streamline Local Authority Adult Social Care Assessments (no. 31/6585).

Purpose of the grant

The purpose of this grant is to provide support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them in funding adult social care.

This is made available to support local authorities with the cost of funding a dedicated productivity lead to review local systems and implement some or all the following approaches:

  • procure and implement digital efficiency tools already available on the market - for example, self-service tools or online portals that allow people who draw on care or carers to input or view their own information
  • embed transformation or business process experts to improve operating models - for example, make use of virtual assessments where appropriate and consider implementing trusted assessment arrangements with care providers, intermediate care teams and other professionals, to reduce the number of times the same information is collected from the same person
  • supplement social worker vacancies with higher ratios of assistant or trainee roles which can be easier to recruit to - for example, if there is a shortage of registered social workers

This is not an exhaustive list and local authorities are encouraged to tailor approaches to local priorities, where there are innovative ways to help simplify systems and increase assessment capacity.

Determination

The Minister of State determines:

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

The authorities and the amounts are set out in Annex A.

Grant conditions

This is a non-ringfenced grant contribution to be paid to local authorities towards implementing innovative projects developed in response to planned reforms. There are no conditions on the grant.

However, local authorities are strongly recommended to share learning and best practice with other local authorities and the Department for Health and Social Care.

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 Care and Mental Health

Linsey Craike and Megan Bradish, Deputy Directors for Adult Social Care Charging Reform Implementation

Annex A: grant allocations

Methodology - 2022 to 2023 Grant to Streamline Local Authority Adult Social Care Assessments

The £27 million fund will be allocated across all 152 upper tier and unitary local authorities in England using the adult social care relative needs formula (RNF) with a minimum amount of £130,000 paid in a single instalment. This means that each local authority should be able to buy digital tools and resource to embed into more streamlined operating models.

The allocation for each local authority is as follows:

Local authority 2022 to 2023 Grant to Streamline Local Authority Adult Social Care Assessments
Barking and Dagenham £130,000.00
Barnet £141,558.00
Barnsley £130,000.00
Bath and North East Somerset £130,000.00
Bedford £130,000.00
Bexley £130,000.00
Birmingham £547,684.00
Blackburn with Darwen £130,000.00
Blackpool £130,000.00
Bolton £135,946.00
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £171,132.00
Bracknell Forest £130,000.00
Bradford £224,657.00
Brent £131,343.00
Brighton and Hove £130,000.00
Bristol, City of £198,365.00
Bromley £130,000.00
Buckinghamshire £163,448.00
Bury £130,000.00
Calderdale £130,000.00
Cambridgeshire £227,282.00
Camden £130,000.00
Central Bedfordshire £130,000.00
Cheshire East £141,866.00
Cheshire West and Chester £143,487.00
City of London £130,000.00
Cornwall £273,181.00
County Durham £276,016.00
Coventry £151,687.00
Croydon £137,045.00
Cumbria £245,195.00
Darlington £130,000.00
Derby £130,000.00
Derbyshire £354,734.00
Devon £349,671.00
Doncaster £147,660.00
Dorset £166,913.00
Dudley £152,720.00
Ealing £138,632.00
East Riding of Yorkshire £141,409.00
East Sussex £252,865.00
Enfield £130,000.00
Essex £578,900.00
Gateshead £130,000.00
Gloucestershire £247,421.00
Greenwich £130,095.00
Hackney £137,403.00
Halton £130,000.00
Hammersmith and Fulham £130,000.00
Hampshire £464,969.00
Haringey £130,000.00
Harrow £130,000.00
Hartlepool £130,000.00
Havering £130,000.00
Herefordshire, County of £130,000.00
Hertfordshire £404,327.00
Hillingdon £130,000.00
Hounslow £130,000.00
Isle of Wight £130,000.00
Isles of Scilly £130,000.00
Islington £130,000.00
Kensington and Chelsea £130,000.00
Kent £602,854.00
Kingston upon Hull, City of £142,091.00
Kingston upon Thames £130,000.00
Kirklees £181,888.00
Knowsley £130,000.00
Lambeth £147,565.00
Lancashire £539,651.00
Leeds £323,775.00
Leicester £153,905.00
Leicestershire £236,103.00
Lewisham £133,773.00
Lincolnshire £329,371.00
Liverpool £289,192.00
Luton £130,000.00
Manchester £260,728.00
Medway £130,000.00
Merton £130,000.00
Middlesbrough £130,000.00
Milton Keynes £130,000.00
Newcastle upon Tyne £146,775.00
Newham £143,604.00
Norfolk £408,656.00
North East Lincolnshire £130,000.00
North Lincolnshire £130,000.00
North Northamptonshire £130,000.00
North Somerset £130,000.00
North Tyneside £130,000.00
North Yorkshire £237,017.00
Northumberland £148,791.00
Nottingham £151,586.00
Nottinghamshire £344,932.00
Oldham £130,000.00
Oxfordshire £224,104.00
Peterborough £130,000.00
Plymouth £130,000.00
Portsmouth £130,000.00
Reading £130,000.00
Redbridge £130,000.00
Redcar and Cleveland £130,000.00
Richmond upon Thames £130,000.00
Rochdale £130,000.00
Rotherham £131,563.00
Rutland £130,000.00
Salford £130,000.00
Sandwell £180,719.00
Sefton £149,127.00
Sheffield £264,563.00
Shropshire £136,310.00
Slough £130,000.00
Solihull £130,000.00
Somerset £244,251.00
South Gloucestershire £130,000.00
South Tyneside £130,000.00
Southampton £130,000.00
Southend-on-Sea £130,000.00
Southwark £153,602.00
St. Helens £130,000.00
Staffordshire £346,388.00
Stockport £130,000.00
Stockton-on-Tees £130,000.00
Stoke-on-Trent £130,253.00
Suffolk £318,950.00
Sunderland £153,322.00
Surrey £390,658.00
Sutton £130,000.00
Swindon £130,000.00
Tameside £130,000.00
Telford and Wrekin £130,000.00
Thurrock £130,000.00
Torbay £130,000.00
Tower Hamlets £143,267.00
Trafford £130,000.00
Wakefield £161,253.00
Walsall £140,026.00
Waltham Forest £130,000.00
Wandsworth £130,000.00
Warrington £130,000.00
Warwickshire £218,532.00
West Berkshire £130,000.00
West Northamptonshire £142,294.00
West Sussex £323,063.00
Westminster £130,000.00
Wigan £155,712.00
Wiltshire £178,288.00
Windsor and Maidenhead £130,000.00
Wirral £176,068.00
Wokingham £130,000.00
Wolverhampton £134,613.00
Worcestershire £233,206.00
York £130,000.00