Social Services: Finance

(asked on 20th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate additional funding to meet the demand for social care in (a) Blackburn and (b) England ahead of the upcoming green paper on social care.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 28th June 2018

As a result of increased Government support, Blackburn and Darwen received an additional £7.3 million for adult social care in 2017/18.

In total Blackburn and Darwen have access to up to £28.8 million additional funding between 2017/18 and 2019/20.

Blackburn and Darwen’s adult social care budget for 2017/18 was £46.55 million. This is a 16.6% increase compared to the previous year.

The Government has given councils in England access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for social care over three years.

The action we have taken means that overall, councils are able to increase spending on adult social care in real terms for each of the three years from 2017/18.

The Government will take decisions on funding for social care beyond 2019/20 as part of the forthcoming spending review.

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