Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund for adult social care
Information for local authorities and adult social care providers on the £162.5 million Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund.
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This guidance applies to the first 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 for 2021 to 2022
- the conditions that will apply to that grant
- guidance intended to assist local authorities
See ‘Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund: examples of allowable activity’ above for examples of best practice and case studies of allowable activities under the grant conditions.
We have also published detail 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.
Last updated 27 April 2022 + show all updates
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Added call out box to state that this information is no longer current but here for reference.
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Added 'Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund: examples of allowable activity'.
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Added 'Annex D: reporting point 1 template'.
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First published.