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Adult Social Care Discharge Fund (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6645

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety (鈥淧arliamentary Under-Secretary of State鈥�), 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 Adult Social Care Discharge Fund (revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6645.

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, up to 31 March 2024.

3. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is providing this funding to support local authorities to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through聽delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.

Determination

4. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State determines as the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid, the authorities and the amounts set out in Annex A.

Grant conditions

5. Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State 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 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety

Lucy Pedrick, Deputy Director
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
April 2023

Annex A: Discharge Fund allocations to local authorities 2023-24

Local authority*	Discharge Fund 2023-24
Barking and Dagenham	拢1,501,105
Barnet	拢1,348,922
Barnsley	拢1,885,752
Bath and North East Somerset	拢687,394
Bedford	拢477,349
Bexley	拢927,572
Birmingham	拢9,522,046
Blackburn with Darwen	拢1,170,528
Blackpool	拢1,524,702
Bolton	拢2,085,475
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	拢1,884,092
Bracknell Forest	拢213,785
Bradford	拢3,279,003
Brent	拢1,870,905
Brighton And Hove	拢1,326,152
Bristol	拢2,385,577
Bromley	拢1,083,806
Buckinghamshire Council	拢706,716
Bury	拢1,069,497
Calderdale	拢1,182,770
Cambridgeshire	拢2,126,993
Camden	拢1,804,922
Central Bedfordshire	拢390,072
Cheshire East	拢1,220,549
Cheshire West and Chester	拢1,517,647
City of London	拢45,376
Cornwall	拢3,414,724
Coventry	拢2,213,359
Croydon	拢1,398,916
Cumberland**	拢2,049,198
Darlington	拢629,230
Derby	拢1,688,692
Derbyshire	拢5,009,663
Devon	拢4,083,537
Doncaster	拢2,286,690
Dorset Council	拢1,745,550
Dudley	拢2,331,178
Durham	拢4,327,485
Ealing	拢1,777,649
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢1,629,271
East Sussex	拢3,053,047
Enfield	拢1,643,969
Essex	拢6,502,485
Gateshead	拢1,596,389
Gloucestershire	拢2,807,428
Greenwich	拢2,163,846
Hackney	拢2,332,446
Halton	拢978,876
Hammersmith and Fulham	拢1,405,803
Hampshire	拢4,385,327
Haringey	拢1,374,842
Harrow	拢934,218
Hartlepool	拢751,216
Havering	拢956,848
Herefordshire	拢950,944
Hertfordshire	拢3,302,374
Hillingdon	拢1,046,974
Hounslow	拢1,146,016
Isle of Wight	拢866,442
Isles of Scilly	拢11,425
Islington	拢2,033,004
Kensington and Chelsea	拢1,074,192
Kent	拢7,011,978
Kingston upon Hull	拢2,512,415
Kingston upon Thames	拢257,944
Kirklees	拢2,498,584
Knowsley	拢1,700,926
Lambeth	拢2,095,464
Lancashire	拢7,703,479
Leeds	拢4,435,973
Leicester	拢2,461,390
Leicestershire	拢2,480,197
Lewisham	拢2,094,804
Lincolnshire	拢4,802,736
Liverpool	拢5,047,105
Luton	拢1,048,812
Manchester	拢4,451,204
Medway	拢1,024,501
Merton	拢702,349
Middlesbrough	拢1,212,138
Milton Keynes	拢865,887
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢2,365,639
Newham	拢2,410,372
Norfolk	拢5,554,461
North East Lincolnshire	拢1,129,800
North Lincolnshire	拢1,014,719
North Northamptonshire	拢1,615,567
North Somerset	拢979,406
North Tyneside	拢1,342,893
North Yorkshire**	拢2,429,421
Northumberland	拢1,751,885
Nottingham	拢2,327,688
Nottinghamshire	拢4,334,983
Oldham	拢1,568,487
Oxfordshire	拢1,500,865
Peterborough	拢1,048,665
Plymouth	拢1,813,195
Portsmouth	拢1,208,018
Reading	拢377,502
Redbridge	拢1,413,390
Redcar and Cleveland	拢971,294
Richmond upon Thames	拢108,854
Rochdale	拢1,721,354
Rotherham	拢2,030,150
Rutland	拢30,678
Salford	拢1,975,013
Sandwell	拢3,227,569
Sefton	拢2,204,747
Sheffield	拢4,106,385
Shropshire	拢1,663,231
Slough	拢559,310
Solihull	拢903,857
Somerset**	拢3,276,804
South Gloucestershire	拢649,489
South Tyneside	拢1,469,985
Southampton	拢1,500,795
Southend-on-Sea	拢1,093,197
Southwark	拢2,502,171
St. Helens	拢1,470,514
Staffordshire	拢4,585,762
Stockport	拢1,361,507
Stockton-on-Tees	拢1,005,490
Stoke-on-Trent	拢2,158,741
Suffolk	拢4,066,814
Sunderland	拢2,619,438
Surrey	拢1,599,433
Sutton	拢570,194
Swindon	拢756,439
Tameside	拢1,764,424
Telford and Wrekin	拢1,096,851
Thurrock	拢780,830
Torbay	拢1,239,014
Tower Hamlets	拢2,356,781
Trafford	拢1,153,050
Wakefield	拢2,442,604
Walsall	拢1,988,154
Waltham Forest	拢1,329,977
Wandsworth	拢2,381,301
Warrington	拢870,761
Warwickshire	拢2,121,662
West Berkshire	拢113,070
Westmorland and Furness**	拢1,304,384
West Northamptonshire	拢1,411,663
West Sussex	拢2,889,864
Westminster	拢2,474,364
Wigan	拢2,350,163
Wiltshire	拢1,435,926
Windsor and Maidenhead	拢316,342
Wirral	拢2,697,262
Wokingham	拢66,150
Wolverhampton	拢2,069,492
Worcestershire	拢2,667,200
York	拢75,2697
England	拢300,000,000

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

**On 1 April 2023 the following unitary authorities will be established:

• Cumberland, comprising the areas of Allerdale, Carlisle, Copeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
• Westmorland and Furness, comprising the areas of Barrow-in-Furness, Eden, South Lakeland and part of Cumbria County Council.
• North Yorkshire, comprising the areas of Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough and Selby.
• Somerset, comprising the areas of Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset and Somerset West and Taunton.

Allocations may not sum to exact totals due to rounding.

Annex B: Grant conditions

1. In this Annex:

a. 鈥渁 recipient authority鈥� means a local authority listed in Annex A to this determination;

b. 鈥渢he Department鈥� means the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities;

c. 鈥渢he Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State鈥� means the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety;

d. 鈥渢he BCF鈥� is the Better Care Fund.

Use of grant

2. A recipient authority must:

a. Pool this funding into the local BCF, with plans for health and social care spend (including mental health) agreed by the local authorities and Integrated Care Board Chief Executives by 28 June 2023 and signed off by the Health and Wellbeing Board under national condition 1 of the聽BCF.

b. Use this funding, in conjunction with wider funding (including relevant BCF investment) to build additional adult social care and community-based reablement capacity to reduce hospital discharge delays through聽delivering sustainable improvements to services for individuals.

c. Plan how best to deploy this funding over the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024, taking account of likely variation in levels of demand over the course of the year, including winter pressures. Recipient authorities must work with local providers to determine how best to build the workforce capacity needed for additional services.

d. Deploy the funding in ways that support the principles of 鈥楧ischarge to Assess鈥�, to enable timely discharge from hospital with appropriate short-term support, where needed, pending assessment of long-term care needs.

e. Deploy the funding in ways that take account of learning from previous discharge funding.

f. Submit plans for how they intend to deploy the funding and comply with the reporting requirements set out in paragraph 4 of this Annex.

3. A recipient authority must not:

a. Use this funding to compensate for expenditure already incurred, activities for which the local authority has already earmarked or allocated expenditure, or to fund inflationary pressures.

b. Use this funding for activities which do not support the primary purpose of this grant.

4. The Grant Recipient shall at all times during and following the end of the Funding Period:

a. Comply with requirements of the Branding Manual in relation to the Funded Activities; and

b. Cease use of the Funded by UK Government logo on demand if directed to do so by the Authority.

5. Branding Manual means the HM Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland first published by the Cabinet Office in November 2022 including any subsequent updates from time to time.

Reporting requirements

6. Recipient authorities will be required to work with their聽Integrated Care Board聽to provide the following to the BCF programme team, as part of their BCF plan, using compulsory templates made available through the BCF exchange:

a. A report detailing how the recipient authority plans to spend all their allocation over 2023-24, due by 28 June 2023. This must outline how the recipient authority plans to increase expenditure on discharge in comparison to their聽BCF聽plan and confirm that the use of the funding has been agreed by the local authority and the聽Integrated Care Board. One planned spending report must be submitted per local authority;

b. Fortnightly activity reports, setting out what activities have been delivered. The first report will need to be submitted on 24 April 2023, and fortnightly thereafter; and,

c. A final spending report provided to the Department of Health and Social Care alongside the wider end of year聽BCF聽reports.

7. Government may follow up with recipient authorities to understand and/or challenge the planning approach. This may happen if:

a. Spending plans provided under paragraph 4 above are in breach of funding conditions; or,

b. Data shows that delayed discharges are significantly higher or increasing at a greater rate than national averages.

8. Recipient authorities must engage fully with this process where necessary. Integrated Care Boards (including relevant trusts) and local authorities will be expected to implement recommendations provided by the support programme teams.

9. Recipient authorities may use up to 2% of their total allocation for reasonable administrative costs associated with distributing and reporting on this funding.

Payment arrangements

10. Funding can be used to support expenditure from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 and will be distributed in monthly payments throughout the year.

Financial management

11. The recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.

12. 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 鈥榝inancial irregularity鈥� 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

13. 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 Parliamentary Under-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 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and notified in writing to the local authority.

14. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State who may set off the sum against any future amount due to the local authority from central government.