Learning Disability: Community Care
(asked on 13th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 10 November 2015 on Government response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’ consultation, HCWS302, how much of the £45 million in funding made available to Transforming Care Partnerships has been spent; and how that funding has been allocated.
The quoted £45 million funding figure includes both revenue and capital funding elements: £30 million and £15 million respectively.
NHS England made available up to £30 million of transformation funding over three years, with national funding conditional on match-funding from local commissioners. This funding was intended to support local areas with transitional costs associated with moving to a new community-based care model.
The ‘Building the right support’ plan also committed NHS England to investing £15 million in capital schemes. Following the subsequent 2015 Spending Review, the transformation capital grants were increased to up to £20 million per year to be made available for the subsequent five years for investing in learning disability and autism capital projects.
The following table summarises NHS England capital spend:
For 2016/17 | 11,050,000 |
For 2017/18 | 11,151,984 |
For 2018/19 capital spend so far this year | 1,775,546 |
Capital approved but not yet released | 8,055,696 |
Capital applications currently going through approval process | 18,376,674 |