Social Services: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of availability of social care beds in Yorkshire and the Humber.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 2nd February 2018

Commissioning social care is a matter for local authorities who are best placed to understand the needs of local people and communities, and how best to meet them. This includes understanding local needs for residential and nursing care home beds. For this reason, the Care Act 2014 placed duties on local authorities to shape their local markets so that there is an adequate supply of provision which ensures all adult social care service users have a choice of high quality services.

The Government has given councils access to additional funding to enable them to support more people and sustain a diverse adult social care market.

Councils in England will receive an additional £2 billion for social care over the three years from 2017/18, with £1 billion available in 2017/18. Overall the Government has given councils access of up to £9.25 billion more dedicated funding between 2017/18 and 2019/20.

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