LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL SERVICES LETTER. 10 December 2007

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1 LOCAL AUTHORITY SOCIAL SERVICES LETTER LASSL(DH)(2007)2 To: The Chief Executive County Councils ) Metropolitan District Councils ) England Shire Unitary Councils ) London Borough Councils Common Council of the City of London Council of the Isles of Scilly The Director of Adults Social Services The Director of Children s Services 10 December 2007 ADULTS PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (PSS): SPECIFIC REVENUE AND CAPITAL GRANT ALLOCATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO AREA BASED GRANT FOR , & CHILDREN S SERVICES: CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES CONTRIBUTION TO AREA BASED GRANT FOR , & SUMMARY 1. This letter is issued to follow up the overall Government Finance Settlement announced in Parliament last week. It notifies local authorities of both their adults Personal Social Services (PSS) specific revenue and capital grant funding and the Department of Health s contributions to the new Area Based in support of social care policies, including children s PSS funding insofar as this is provided by the Child & Adolescent Health Services (CAMHS) contribution. Details of individual funding stream allocations (where these are available), and a brief description of each area, appear in the relevant annexes. It is important for this circular to be brought to the attention of your lead members on adult social care. 2. In addition to CAMHS, the funding streams in support of rs and (LINks) contributed by the Department of Health are intended to support both children and adults services. It is therefore important for this circular to be brought to the immediate attention of those responsible for children s services. ACTION 3. This letter is provided for information only, and should be read in conjunction with a similar circular issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) [LAC reference ] in respect of children s PSS funding. 1

2 THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE SETTLEMENT FOR , AND For the first time, this circular provides details, at local authority level, of the adults social care settlement for the next three financial years, aligned with the Spending Review cycle. This is in line with the Government s commitment to introduce multi-year settlements, which should encourage both certainty of funding and opportunities for improved budget planning within local authorities. 5. This circular provides details of actual local authority allocations for and provisional allocations in respect of and Separate Government Finance Reports will be issued on subsequent dates to confirm the allocations for and However, final allocations for and are unlikely to change materially from the provisional figures released today. 6. Adult social services are funded by general Formula distributed by central Government and by each council s revenue. Precise details of the general Formula allocation methodology can be found on the Communities and Government (CLG) website at: 7. Suggested changes to funding formulae were consulted on by CLG over the summer. The only changes to the Relative Needs Formulae (RNFs) for the two adult social care service blocks are an update of the Low Income Adjustment (LIA) in the older people s formula (consultation option SSE2) and the Area Cost Adjustment in both formulae, as well as updates to the data. The transitional damping applied to the new younger adults RNF has also ended. The only changes to the Children s RNF are an updated Area Cost Adjustment and use of new data. The transitional damping applied to the Children's RNF has also ended. Further information is available in the technical guide to the personal social services funding formula, available on the CLG website. 8. From April 2008, the majority of revenue grants will be delivered to local authorities through the Department of Health s contribution to the new Area Based. This Area Based replaces the current Area Agreement grant as outlined in the 2006 Government White Paper, but is paid on an unringfenced basis to all local authorities. As such local authorities are able to determine locally how best to spend the in order to deliver local and national priorities in their areas. As an unringfenced grant, there are no restrictions on carry forward between financial years. 9. This represents a considerable increase in the flexibility open to local government to take local spending decisions in line with the new performance framework. The Area Based will be administered by CLG and paid to local authorities on a monthly basis. Further guidance was included in the Area Agreement phase two operational guidance, which is available at The Isles of Scilly will no longer receive their main revenue support grant through the same process as other authorities. Full details of this are available in the CLG guidance. Where Department of Health (DH) specific grants and contributions to the 2

3 ABG are allocated using the RNFs, this will continue to apply to all authorities including the Isles of Scilly. KEY FEATURES OF THE ADULTS PSS SETTLEMENT 11. DH will make available the following in : a. Over 1 billion of revenue funding through million of specific formula grants and million contribution to the Area Based ; b million in capital funding. 12. DH will make available the following in : a. Over 1.2 billion of revenue funding through million of specific formula grants and million contribution to the Area Based ; b million in capital funding. 11. DH will make available the following in : a. Over 1.3 billion of revenue funding through million of specific formula grants and million contribution to the Area Based ; b million in capital funding. 12. The following annexes provide full details of the DH settlement: Annex A provides a summary of total Adults PSS funding for , and , and details Children s PSS funding insofar as this is covered by the CAMHS. Annex B provides details of actual funding allocations for each authority in , where details are available. Annex C provides details of provisional funding allocations for These will be confirmed subsequently by a separate Government Finance Report. Annex D provides details of provisional funding allocations for These will be confirmed subsequently by a separate Government Finance Report. Annex E provides a brief description of the scope and purpose of each funding stream. 13. Adults PSS grant allocations are provisional and subject to Parliamentary approval. SPECIFIC FORMULA GRANTS POINTS TO NOTE 14. Annex E provides a brief description of the scope, purpose and allocation method for each social care funding stream. authority level allocations for all three years are given in Annexes B, C and D. During the next three years, three revenue grants will be issued with conditions: AIDS Support, and Disabilities Campus Closure Programme. All other revenue funding streams are now contributions to the new Area Based, described in paragraphs 8-9 above. 15. Circulars giving details of each ringfenced specific grant will be issued shortly. You are asked to note the following in particular: 3

4 AIDS Support Annex A indicates the overall level of funding for this grant in , and As has been the case in previous years, we cannot notify local authorities of their individual allocations as part of today s announcement, because revised case load data will not become available until later in each year. Allocations of this grant for will therefore be calculated and announced in spring 2008, and similarly for subsequent years. Disabilities Campus Closure Programme Annex A indicates the overall level of funding for this grant in , and The grant will be targeted on local authorities in which campuses are currently or have previously been located. The department is working to develop an appropriate formula to allow this targeted allocation. Allocations of this grant for the three years will therefore be calculated and announced in spring DH will make contributions to the new Area Based in respect of the following policy areas: rs Child and Adolescent Health Services Fund Capacity Act and Independent Capacity Advocate Service Health Rights 17. The total funding to be provided for each of these areas is shown in annex A, the allocation to individual local authorities for the three years in annexes B, C and D and more detail on the scope and purpose of each is shown in annex E. 18. In line with Government policy on devolution and increasing flexibility for local decision making, we have rolled two previous grants (Access and Systems Capacity and Delayed Discharges) into RSG from Additionally, grants which were timelimited for the SR04 period are no longer included. CAPITAL PROVISION 19. DH will make a contribution to the Single Capital Pot to the value of million in all three years for adults social care. The distribution to local authorities is based on the formula used in previous financial years, and is being announced at the same time as the revenue allocation. 20. DH will make a contribution to the Single Capital Pot to the value of million in all three years for mental health services. This will be distributed on the basis of a basic amount of 50,000 to each council with the remainder allocated using the younger adults RNF. 21. Levels per local authority of these contributions to the single capital pot will be notified in a separate letter [LASSL (DH)(2007)3]. 4

5 22. DH will be allocating five capital grants over the period: AIDS/HIV This ringfenced grant will provide a total of 9.3 million, in the proportion of 3.1 million for each of the three years, to support HIV Capital Schemes. Further details of the bidding process will be provided in early Extra Housing - This 80 million grant will be issued to local authorities and their housing partners during the next two years, in the proportion of 40 million in and 40 million in Further details of the bidding process will be provided in early Infrastructure Support This 40 million grant will be issued in Further details of the bidding process will be provided nearer the time. Common Assessment Framework This ringfenced grant will provide a total of 33 million, in the proportion of 11 million per year for each of the three years, to support a small number of demonstrator sites to develop the Common Assessment Framework (CAF). Further details of the bidding process will be provided in early IT infrastructure This capital grant of 48 million, in the proportion 15 million in , 16 million in and 17 million in , will be allocated to local authorities to continue to allow them to develop their IT infrastructure and to enable rapid rollout of the CAF from 2011 following the completion of the demonstrator phase. Further details of the bidding process will be provided in early CANCELLATION OF CIRCULARS 23. This circular should be cancelled on 31 March

6 ENQUIRIES For further information on each funding stream please contact the relevant person below: Funding Contact Address Adults RNF Control Totals CLG Anne Mercer Lindsey Proctor AIDS Support Matthew O Dwyer matthew.o'dwyer@dh.gsi.gov.uk Kay Orton kay.orton@doh.gsi.gov.uk Disabilities Campus Closure Pam Nixon pam.nixon@dh.gsi.gov.uk Programme Helen Tomkys helen.tomkys@dh.gsi.gov.uk rs Gail Elkington gail.elkington@dh.gsi.gov.uk Child and Adolescent Health Services Geoff Dent geoff.dent@dh.gsi.gov.uk Colin Startup colin.startup@dh.gsi.gov.uk Fund Wendy Brown wendy.brown@dh.gsi.gov.uk Nicola Watt nicola.watt@dh.gsi.gov.uk Capacity Act and Independent Lucy Bonnerjea lucy.bonnerjea@dh.gsi.gov.uk Capacity Advocate Service Health Dorothy Francis dorothy.francis@dh.gsi.gov.uk Jim Fowles jim.fowles@dh.gsi.gov.uk Rights Rachel Kirkland rachel.kirkland@dh.gsi.gov.uk Extra Housing Anne Shaw anne.shaw@dh.gsi.gov.uk Infrastructure Support Ronan Segrave ronan.segrave@dh.gsi.gov.uk Common Assessment framework (ecaf pilots) Carl Evans carl.evans@dh.gsi.gov.uk IT infrastructure Carl Evans carl.evans@dh.gsi.gov.uk Health Single Capital Pot (C) Dorothy Francis dorothy.francis@dh.gsi.gov.uk Single Capital Pot (C) Alexandra Lazaro alexandra.lazaro@dh.gsi.gov.uk From: Jennifer Heigham,, Government and Partnerships Directorate, Department of Health, 313 Wellington House, Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG Further copies of this Circular may be obtained from Department of Health Publications Orderline, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH, Tel or Fax Please quote the code and serial number appearing on the top right-hand corner. Current circulars are now listed on the Department of Health web site on the Internet at: Full text of recent circulars is also accessible at this site. Crown copyright This Circular may be freely reproduced by all to whom it is addressed. 6

7 SPECIFIC GRANT RESOURCES ALLOCATED BY DH ANNEX A Revenue (1) m m m specific grants: AIDS Support Disabilities: closure of campuses (2) Total Rinfenced specific grants Contributions to Area Based s: rs (3) Child and Adolescent Health Services (3) Fund (3) Capacity Act and Independent Capacity Advocate Service and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Health Rights Total of contributions to Area Based s Total Revenue s Capital: AIDS/HIV Extra Housing Infrastructure Support Common Assessment Framework (ecaf pilots) IT Infrastructure Total Capital s Total Resources Notes: (1) The values for each year include topslices for the following grants: ( 2m), Child and Adolescent Health Services ( 2.350m for , 2.450m for , 2.550m for ) and ( 7m). (2) Allocations yet to be finalised due to data requirements. (3) rs, CAMHS and LINks include an element of funding for Children s Services. 7

8 ANNEX B PROVISIONAL ADULTS PSS ALLOCATIONS FOR Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Other Metropolitan Districts Metropolitan Sub Total Inner London Outer London London Sub total Shire Counties Shire Unitary Authorities Shire sub total England Total

9 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Birmingham Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne Sheffield Sub-Total Other Metropolitan Districts Barnsley Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale

10 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Other Metropolitan Districts Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton Sub-Total Metropolitan Sub-total

11 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Inner London City of London Camden Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth Westminster Sub-total

12 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Outer London Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Croydon Ealing Enfield Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon Thames Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Sutton Waltham Forest Sub-total London Sub-total

13 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire

14 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire Worcestershire Sub-total

15 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Bath & North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Council Isles of Scilly Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham

16 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and The Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York Sub -total Shires Sub-total

17 ANNEX C PROVISIONAL ADULTS PSS ALLOCATIONS FOR Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Other Metropolitan Districts Metropolitan Sub Total Inner London Outer London London Sub total Shire Counties Shire Unitary Authorities Shire sub total England Total

18 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Birmingham Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne Sheffield Sub-Total Other Metropolitan Districts Barnsley Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale

19 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Other Metropolitan Districts Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton Sub-Total Metropolitan Sub-total

20 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Inner London City of London Camden Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth Westminster Sub-total

21 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Outer London Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Croydon Ealing Enfield Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon Thames Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Sutton Waltham Forest Sub-total London Sub-total

22 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire

23 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire Worcestershire Sub-total

24 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Bath & North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Council Isles of Scilly Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham

25 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and The Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York Sub -total Shires Sub-total

26 ANNEX D PROVISIONAL ADULTS PSS ALLOCATIONS FOR Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Other Metropolitan Districts Metropolitan Sub Total Inner London Outer London London Sub total Shire Counties Shire Unitary Authorities Shire sub total England Total

27 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Principal Metropolitan Cities Birmingham Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne Sheffield Sub-Total Other Metropolitan Districts Barnsley Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale

28 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Other Metropolitan Districts Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton Sub-Total Metropolitan Sub-total

29 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Inner London City of London Camden Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Islington Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth Westminster Sub-total

30 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Outer London Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Croydon Ealing Enfield Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon Thames Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Sutton Waltham Forest Sub-total London Sub-total

31 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire

32 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Counties Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire Worcestershire Sub-total

33 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Bath & North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Isle of Wight Council Isles of Scilly Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham

34 Contributions to Area Based rs CAMHS Fund Health Rights Shire Unitary Authorities Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and The Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York Sub -total Shires Sub-total