Guidance

Social care grant determination 2024 to 2025

Published 15 April 2024

Applies to England

The Social Care (Revenue) Grant Determination (2024-25): No 31/7250

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Local Government (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 (2024-25): No 31/7250

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 adult 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.

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: Social Care Grant allocations to local authorities 2024-25

Local authority* Social Care Grant 2024-25
Barking And Dagenham 拢21,724,924
Barnet 拢27,281,237
Barnsley 拢29,647,196
Bath And North East Somerset 拢13,249,930
Bedford 拢10,925,208
Bexley 拢17,786,491
Birmingham 拢138,629,920
Blackburn with Darwen 拢18,250,882
Blackpool 拢21,839,602
Bolton 拢31,924,058
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 拢33,705,990
Bracknell Forest 拢6,419,218
Bradford 拢52,021,236
Brent 拢29,207,098
Brighton And Hove 拢23,535,221
Bristol 拢41,725,892
Bromley 拢21,000,167
Buckinghamshire Council 拢29,529,952
Bury 拢16,595,189
Calderdale 拢19,527,488
Cambridgeshire 拢41,616,847
Camden 拢28,588,297
Central Bedfordshire 拢15,185,744
Cheshire East 拢25,602,413
Cheshire West and Chester 拢27,262,790
City of London 拢839,376
Cornwall 拢57,031,620
Coventry 拢35,798,842
Croydon 拢25,025,131
Cumberland 拢32,081,534
Darlington 拢10,905,946
Derby 拢26,124,863
Derbyshire 拢80,227,184
Devon 拢70,728,585
Doncaster 拢35,200,792
Dorset Council 拢29,655,266
Dudley 拢36,127,253
Durham 拢64,856,822
Ealing 拢29,566,599
East Riding of Yorkshire 拢27,706,842
East Sussex 拢50,779,318
Enfield 拢27,757,861
Essex 拢117,808,694
Gateshead 拢25,644,210
Gloucestershire 拢47,592,272
Greenwich 拢31,592,168
Hackney 拢34,856,521
Halton 拢15,025,976
Hammersmith And Fulham 拢22,500,038
Hampshire 拢85,204,824
Haringey 拢25,223,897
Harrow 拢16,982,001
Hartlepool 拢11,696,486
Havering 拢18,771,710
Herefordshire 拢17,481,973
Hertfordshire 拢72,459,206
Hillingdon 拢20,578,029
Hounslow 拢20,250,626
Isle of Wight 拢15,168,456
Isles of Scilly 拢227,318
Islington 拢30,826,162
Kensington And Chelsea 拢18,339,475
Kent 拢117,046,120
Kingston upon Hull 拢35,661,304
Kingston upon Thames 拢9,937,402
Kirklees 拢39,140,265
Knowsley 拢25,003,283
Lambeth 拢33,912,086
Lancashire 拢123,054,556
Leeds 拢68,822,119
Leicester 拢36,694,934
Leicestershire 拢43,696,731
Lewisham 拢30,790,194
Lincolnshire 拢73,865,006
Liverpool 拢75,951,462
Luton 拢16,635,384
Manchester 拢65,772,736
Medway 拢18,770,340
Merton 拢13,747,300
Middlesbrough 拢19,202,280
Milton Keynes 拢16,356,864
Newcastle upon Tyne 拢35,673,046
Newham 拢36,700,950
Norfolk 拢87,505,590
North East Lincolnshire 拢17,046,543
North Lincolnshire 拢16,399,212
North Northamptonshire 拢23,841,508
North Somerset 拢17,539,536
North Tyneside 拢22,275,074
North Yorkshire 拢43,780,883
Northumberland 拢28,990,189
Nottingham 拢36,052,398
Nottinghamshire 拢72,402,231
Oldham 拢27,499,753
Oxfordshire 拢42,537,628
Peterborough 拢16,204,259
Plymouth 拢28,508,145
Portsmouth 拢19,530,923
Reading 拢9,948,208
Redbridge 拢22,813,941
Redcar And Cleveland 拢16,001,125
Richmond upon Thames 拢11,655,262
Rochdale 拢25,299,935
Rotherham 拢31,650,333
Rutland 拢2,376,451
Salford 拢29,543,171
Sandwell 拢46,612,469
Sefton 拢35,240,954
Sheffield 拢62,669,760
Shropshire 拢28,009,871
Slough 拢10,143,513
Solihull 拢16,781,338
Somerset 拢51,004,810
South Gloucestershire 拢16,778,387
South Tyneside 拢22,011,238
Southampton 拢24,302,964
Southend-on-Sea 拢17,332,687
Southwark 拢36,361,642
St. Helens 拢22,737,848
Staffordshire 拢74,271,163
Stockport 拢24,458,253
Stockton-on-Tees 拢17,168,679
Stoke-on-Trent 拢32,437,670
Suffolk 拢68,711,150
Sunderland 拢38,332,464
Surrey 拢69,709,673
Sutton 拢12,687,234
Swindon 拢13,502,740
Tameside 拢26,521,573
Telford And Wrekin 拢17,528,528
Thurrock 拢13,530,711
Torbay 拢18,684,540
Tower Hamlets 拢34,011,577
Trafford 拢19,184,942
Wakefield 拢36,567,482
Walsall 拢32,121,621
Waltham Forest 拢23,490,789
Wandsworth 拢33,610,522
Warrington 拢15,724,522
Warwickshire 拢39,864,140
West Berkshire 拢8,946,767
Westmorland and Furness 拢22,931,389
West Northamptonshire 拢25,223,676
West Sussex 拢60,651,588
Westminster 拢34,760,516
Wigan 拢38,014,554
Wiltshire 拢32,174,726
Windsor And Maidenhead 拢8,238,978
Wirral 拢41,899,349
Wokingham 拢7,114,353
Wolverhampton 拢32,289,971
Worcestershire 拢48,743,955
York 拢13,607,067
England 拢5,043,967,868

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

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.

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 adult and children鈥檚 social care in 2024-25. 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 9 April 2025.

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.