Social Services: Living Wage

(asked on 22nd January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2016 to Question 25215, if he will estimate the difference between the additional cost to social care providers of paying the new national living wage and the amount available to local authorities through the social care precept and the Better Care Fund in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18 and (c) 2018-19.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 27th January 2016

It is the decision of local councils whether to raise the adult social care precept in order to pay for adult social care in their local area. The precept gives local areas who are best placed to respond to local needs and pressures the flexibility to be able to do so.


The additional amount available to local authorities for adult social care through the social care precept and the Better Care Fund are as follows:


2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

Additional Better Care Fund

0

105

825

Adult Social Care precept

393

821

1,290

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