FUNDING THROUGH COVID-19
10th June
Responses from care providers as to the preferences for financial support from our local authorities can be found HERE. This document includes each response and associated comments and has been sent to the Local Authorities. You can see a quick summary of responses below. Responses A & B are considered high priority and are shown in green, C,D and E median priority, shown in orange, F and G lower priority, shown in red.
Summary of provider responses ref relief preferences.
25th May
C&SW has been in extensive discussions with our 4 local authorities about funding. You can read the document that summarises this HERE. Our CEO has sent the following message out to local care providers; he asks you to read the document and to respond with answers to crucial questions to help guide the effective allocation of these funds. You can access these questions separately HERE; please complete the form and e-mail it back to david.smallacombe@careandsupportwest.com; your feedback is crucial.
“I want to be super clear that its content is not an attempt by your care association to make the case to you about the challenges your commissioners are having to manage themselves within. It is rather our attempt to provide clarity for you about the position in which they find themselves because it probably seems to you that you have been waiting a long time for information to flow from the LA.
The theme of the piece is focused on how the LA’s are placed at present and the major context we (C&SW) have been concerned about on your behalf i.e. that none of them has been able as yet to share with you how they plan to distribute the funding from the second and third tranches of government moneys. Our conversations have helped us understand why they have been unable to be clear with providers how and when the next level of funding support will reach you. None of the authorities is in any doubt that funding must to be passed to you and/but they are also limited by the lack of defined guidance from central government and the complexity of their own local authority’s budget challenges.
None of these LA problems is helpful to you and I can assure you we will continue to press all four LAs to get clear information to you as soon as they can. In the meantime, please carefully note the part of the message HERE which underlines the absolute centrality of the need for you to complete (and continue to complete) the Capacity Tracker. It is definitely a route for you to source funding”.
15th May
Letter from CSW to Local Resilience Forum about real risk of care provider business failure HERE
13th May:
Letter from C&SW to Local Authorities asking about disbursement of the 2nd tranche funds for Covid to the social care sector HERE
9th May:
Funding letter from North Somerset about payments HERE
1st May
It is important to note that we expect to see support in line with the LETTER jointly prepared by the Local Government Association and ADASS (Directors of Adult Social Services) which stated that the funding objectives are to ensure that the adult social care sector continues to provide care to those who need it and to support immediate discharge of hospital patients who are medically fit to leave and to increase capacity to achieve this. The principles of funding are that
The underlying fee increases consider the impact of NLW
Additional temporary funding will recognise the cost pressures of Covid 19
Funding will be available to help providers with their cost flow.
In addition, today saw a LETTER from Robert Jenrick, MP and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government outlining his expectations in terms of supporting the whole social care market and expressing concerns that money is not getting to providers quickly enough.
The second tranche of funds for Local Authorities amounts to £3.2b and the amounts of money allocated so far to our local authorities are as follows:
Our first letter to the council about how the second tranche of funding would be allocated can be read HERE. No response to this or to the questions about how funding seems to be attached ONLY to state funded service users has been received.
C&SW CEO David Smallacombe sent this second letter yesterday. It is important to note that our requests are for support in line with the LETTER jointly prepared by the Local Government Association and ADASS (Directors of Adult Social Services) which stated that the funding objectives are to ensure that the adult social care sector continues to provide care to those who need it and to support immediate discharge of hospital patients who are medically fit to leave and to increase capacity to achieve this. The principles of funding are that
The underlying fee increases consider the impact of NLW
Additional temporary funding will recognise the cost pressures of Covid 19
Funding will be available to help providers with their cost flow.
24th April:
Local authorities are seemingly funding only part of the sector; ie providing finance in relation to state funded service users. C&SW have approached the local authorities with THIS LETTER asking them to respond as soon as possible. We will of course share their comments.
18th April
I am sharing this information about Government COVID-19 additional funding to Ex-Avon Local Authorities. The amounts designated for our local authorities are as follows:
Bath & North East Somerset £4,643,684
Bristol £13,5433,995
North Somerset £5,910,939
S Glos £6,078,838
NB: These amounts are to cover the whole of the named Councils services and not just for Adult Social Care
Please note that information to date from our LAs is here and will be updated as we receive further notification:
We are happy to support providers to challenge the Council(s) who report difficulties in accessing the fund and they should contact C&SW via enquiries@careandsupportwest.com.
COVID 19 UPLIFTS: letters from Councils ref first tranche