Guidance

Improved Better Care Fund Grant Determination 2024 to 2025

Published 15 April 2024

Applies to England

Improved Better Care Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2024-25): No. 31/7245

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government (“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 Improved Better Care Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2024-25): No 31/7245

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.

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 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 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 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government

Angelica Larkin, Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
April 2024

Annex A: Improved Better Care Fund allocations to local authorities 2024-25

Local authority*	Improved Better Care Fund 2024-25
Barking And Dagenham	£10,707,003
Barnet	£9,621,518
Barnsley	£13,450,589
Bath And North East Somerset	£4,903,011
Bedford	£3,404,809
Bexley	£6,616,137
Birmingham	£67,918,344
Blackburn with Darwen	£8,349,082
Blackpool	£10,875,315
Bolton	£14,875,163
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£13,438,749
Bracknell Forest	£1,524,876
Bradford	£23,388,296
Brent	£13,344,692
Brighton And Hove	£9,459,107
Bristol	£17,015,720
Bromley	£7,730,511
Buckinghamshire Council	£5,040,826
Bury	£7,628,448
Calderdale	£8,436,399
Cambridgeshire	£15,171,304
Camden	£12,874,053
Central Bedfordshire	£2,782,283
Cheshire East	£8,705,870
Cheshire West and Chester	£10,824,995
City of London	£323,659
Cornwall	£24,356,360
Coventry	£15,787,327
Croydon	£9,978,112
Cumberland	£14,616,407
Darlington	£4,488,137
Derby	£12,045,014
Derbyshire	£35,732,659
Devon	£29,126,836
Doncaster	£16,310,384
Dorset Council	£12,450,566
Dudley	£16,627,704
Durham	£30,866,855
Ealing	£12,679,522
East Riding of Yorkshire	£11,621,175
East Sussex	£21,776,611
Enfield	£11,726,014
Essex	£46,380,576
Gateshead	£11,386,636
Gloucestershire	£20,024,675
Greenwich	£15,434,166
Hackney	£16,636,745
Halton***	———-
Hammersmith And Fulham	£10,027,236
Hampshire	£31,279,425
Haringey	£9,806,399
Harrow	£6,663,537
Hartlepool	£5,358,232
Havering	£6,824,956
Herefordshire	£6,782,841
Hertfordshire	£23,554,995
Hillingdon	£7,467,803
Hounslow	£8,174,245
Isle of Wight	£6,180,112
Isles of Scilly	£81,490
Islington	£14,500,901
Kensington And Chelsea	£7,661,937
Kent	£50,014,663
Kingston upon Hull	£17,920,422
Kingston upon Thames	£1,839,849
Kirklees	£17,821,765
Knowsley***	———-
Lambeth	£14,946,411
Lancashire	£54,946,963
Leeds	£31,640,675
Leicester	£17,556,473
Leicestershire	£17,690,614
Lewisham	£14,941,703
Lincolnshire	£34,256,698
Liverpool***	———-
Luton	£7,480,913
Manchester	£31,749,311
Medway	£7,307,509
Merton	£5,009,679
Middlesbrough	£8,645,870
Milton Keynes	£6,176,149
Newcastle upon Tyne	£16,873,501
Newham	£17,192,573
Norfolk	£39,618,564
North East Lincolnshire	£8,058,576
North Lincolnshire	£7,237,736
North Northamptonshire	£11,523,432
North Somerset	£6,985,854
North Tyneside	£9,578,514
North Yorkshire	£17,328,446
Northumberland	£12,495,752
Nottingham	£16,602,807
Nottinghamshire	£30,920,338
Oldham	£11,187,623
Oxfordshire	£10,705,289
Peterborough	£7,479,861
Plymouth	£12,933,061
Portsmouth	£8,616,489
Reading	£2,692,624
Redbridge	£10,081,355
Redcar And Cleveland	£6,927,994
Richmond upon Thames	£776,431
Rochdale	£12,277,980
Rotherham	£14,480,543
Rutland	£218,818
Salford	£14,087,266
Sandwell	£23,021,429
Sefton***	———-
Sheffield	£29,289,802
Shropshire	£11,863,403
Slough	£3,989,414
Solihull	£6,446,984
Somerset	£23,372,611
South Gloucestershire	£4,632,638
South Tyneside	£10,485,029
Southampton	£10,704,789
Southend-on-Sea	£7,797,498
Southwark	£17,847,349
St. Helens***	———-
Staffordshire	£32,709,077
Stockport	£9,711,282
Stockton-on-Tees	£7,171,908
Stoke-on-Trent	£15,397,754
Suffolk	£29,007,554
Sunderland	£18,683,789
Surrey	£11,408,352
Sutton	£4,067,048
Swindon	£5,395,489
Tameside	£12,585,188
Telford And Wrekin	£7,823,562
Thurrock	£5,569,460
Torbay	£8,837,572
Tower Hamlets	£16,810,321
Trafford	£8,224,415
Wakefield	£17,422,475
Walsall	£14,181,001
Waltham Forest	£9,486,387
Wandsworth	£16,985,220
Warrington	£6,210,915
Warwickshire	£15,133,281
West Berkshire	£806,499
Westmorland and Furness	£9,303,840
West Northamptonshire	£10,069,033
West Sussex	£20,612,666
Westminster	£17,649,014
Wigan	£16,763,115
Wiltshire	£10,242,097
Windsor And Maidenhead	£2,256,388
Wirral***	———-
Wokingham	£471,832
Wolverhampton	£14,761,161
Worcestershire	£19,024,460
York	£5,368,798
England	£2,039,256,346

*Funding paid to local authorities with responsibility for adult social care only                                                                                  

***The total iBCF allocation for Liverpool City Region councils (£100,567,669) has been devolved as a part of the Business Rates Retention pilots and will not need to be paid out

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 Minister” means the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government

Use of grant

2. Grant paid to a recipient authority under this determination may be used only for the purposes of;

a. meeting adult social care needs;

b. reducing pressures on the NHS, including seasonal winter pressures;

c. supporting people to be discharged from hospital when they are ready;

d. ensuring that the social care provider market is supported.

3. A recipient authority must:

a. pool the grant funding into the local Better Care Fund, unless the authority has written Ministerial exemption;

b. work with the relevant health commissioners and providers to meet any discharge conditions set out in the 2023-25 Better Care Fund Policy Framework;

c. report on spend as required, through the Better Care Fund reporting process (BCF).

Financial management

4. A recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.

5. 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

6. 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 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 Secretary of State and notified in writing to the authority. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the authority from central government.