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Social Care (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6647

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety (鈥渢he Minister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 Social Care (Revenue) Grant Determination (2023-24): No 31/6647.

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 in respect of meeting adults鈥� and children鈥檚 social care needs.

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 and Building Safety

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

Annex A: Social Care Grant allocations to local authorities 2023-24

Local authority*	Social Care Grant 2023-24
Barking and Dagenham	拢16,626,506
Barnet	拢20,800,533
Barnsley	拢22,856,712
Bath and North East Somerset	拢10,072,293
Bedford	拢8,255,716
Bexley	拢13,532,282
Birmingham	拢106,475,356
Blackburn with Darwen	拢13,968,316
Blackpool	拢16,652,343
Bolton	拢24,407,845
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	拢25,564,483
Bracknell Forest	拢4,863,324
Bradford	拢39,805,462
Brent	拢22,339,306
Brighton and Hove	拢17,855,885
Bristol	拢31,871,589
Bromley	拢15,870,107
Buckinghamshire Council	拢22,343,283
Bury	拢12,634,488
Calderdale	拢14,940,650
Cambridgeshire	拢31,623,405
Camden	拢21,846,992
Central Bedfordshire	拢11,462,064
Cheshire East	拢19,364,672
Cheshire West and Chester	拢20,890,931
City of London	拢629,576
Cornwall	拢43,786,976
Coventry	拢27,684,927
Croydon	拢18,999,372
Cumberland**	拢25,100,583
Darlington	拢8,444,915
Derby	拢20,046,628
Derbyshire	拢61,318,597
Devon	拢54,014,961
Doncaster	拢26,868,756
Dorset Council	拢22,316,220
Dudley	拢27,626,913
Durham	拢49,564,497
Ealing	拢22,531,674
East Riding of Yorkshire	拢21,128,509
East Sussex	拢38,557,255
Enfield	拢21,105,905
Essex	拢89,891,295
Gateshead	拢19,543,198
Gloucestershire	拢36,053,136
Greenwich	拢24,236,468
Hackney	拢26,719,058
Halton	拢11,560,539
Hammersmith and Fulham	拢17,280,292
Hampshire	拢64,760,488
Haringey	拢19,261,462
Harrow	拢12,807,595
Hartlepool	拢9,001,113
Havering	拢14,246,398
Herefordshire	拢13,465,934
Hertfordshire	拢54,681,221
Hillingdon	拢15,606,788
Hounslow	拢15,441,323
Isle of Wight	拢11,449,882
Isles of Scilly	拢169,401
Islington	拢23,690,381
Kensington and Chelsea	拢13,909,606
Kent	拢88,770,679
Kingston upon Hull	拢27,215,688
Kingston upon Thames	拢7,472,733
Kirklees	拢29,810,411
Knowsley	拢19,283,986
Lambeth	拢25,838,700
Lancashire	拢94,568,677
Leeds	拢52,281,697
Leicester	拢28,100,955
Leicestershire	拢33,173,679
Lewisham	拢23,401,502
Lincolnshire	拢56,394,128
Liverpool	拢58,942,153
Luton	拢12,743,025
Manchester	拢50,694,742
Medway	拢14,329,753
Merton	拢10,429,778
Middlesbrough	拢15,017,219
Milton Keynes	拢12,452,129
Newcastle upon Tyne	拢27,341,393
Newham	拢28,108,563
Norfolk	拢66,524,505
North East Lincolnshire	拢12,960,614
North Lincolnshire	拢12,494,195
North Northamptonshire	拢18,226,490
North Somerset	拢13,294,831
North Tyneside	拢17,004,869
North Yorkshire**	拢33,359,399
Northumberland	拢22,056,243
Nottingham	拢27,520,770
Nottinghamshire	拢55,409,491
Oldham	拢21,453,651
Oxfordshire	拢32,683,943
Peterborough	拢12,287,315
Plymouth	拢21,701,741
Portsmouth	拢14,869,932
Reading	拢7,499,349
Redbridge	拢17,329,222
Redcar and Cleveland	拢12,187,834
Richmond upon Thames	拢8,813,641
Rochdale	拢19,331,842
Rotherham	拢24,329,530
Rutland	拢1,792,854
Salford	拢22,640,491
Sandwell	拢35,739,383
Sefton	拢27,205,781
Sheffield	拢48,204,724
Shropshire	拢21,547,059
Slough	拢7,759,622
Solihull	拢12,820,464
Somerset**	拢39,245,509
South Gloucestershire	拢12,757,691
South Tyneside	拢16,786,601
Southampton	拢18,467,922
Southend-on-Sea	拢13,196,589
Southwark	拢27,647,962
St. Helens	拢17,510,080
Staffordshire	拢56,759,062
Stockport	拢18,577,141
Stockton-on-Tees	拢13,086,998
Stoke-on-Trent	拢24,789,958
Suffolk	拢52,523,414
Sunderland	拢29,337,386
Surrey	拢52,532,733
Sutton	拢9,516,919
Swindon	拢10,194,941
Tameside	拢20,266,265
Telford and Wrekin	拢13,479,301
Thurrock	拢10,330,015
Torbay	拢14,256,444
Tower Hamlets	拢25,957,938
Trafford	拢14,572,614
Wakefield	拢27,908,401
Walsall	拢24,494,320
Waltham Forest	拢18,061,903
Wandsworth	拢25,623,573
Warrington	拢11,986,566
Warwickshire	拢30,255,428
West Berkshire	拢6,792,908
Westmorland and Furness**	拢17,493,988
West Northamptonshire	拢18,967,113
West Sussex	拢46,446,746
Westminster	拢26,522,501
Wigan	拢29,250,669
Wiltshire	拢24,335,552
Windsor and Maidenhead	拢6,190,213
Wirral	拢32,142,368
Wokingham	拢5,387,520
Wolverhampton	拢24,739,648
Worcestershire	拢37,426,587
York	拢10,300,622
England	拢3,851,967,868

*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鈥�

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 Minister鈥� means the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government and Building Safety

Use of grant

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

a. meeting adult social care needs, and

b. meeting children鈥檚 social care needs.

3. A recipient authority must provide written confirmation to certify that the authority鈥檚 allocation of the Social Care Grant has been used exclusively on adults鈥� and children鈥檚 social care in 2023-24. One statement from the Section 151 Officer will be required at the end of the financial year which will need to be returned to the Department by 10 April 2024.

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 鈥渇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

6. If the 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.