Guidance

Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund - Workforce Fund: grant determination and conditions 2023 to 2024: No 31/6803

Updated 31 August 2023

Applies to England

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The Minister of State for Care (‘the minister’), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the , makes the following determination:

Citation

1) This determination may be cited as the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund - Workforce Fund Grant Determination (2023 to 2024): No 31/6803

Purpose of the grant

2) The purpose of the grant is to provide additional support to local authorities in England towards expenditure lawfully incurred or to be incurred by them. It is intended to enable local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care, in particular to increase social care capacity through increasing social care workforce capacity and retention, reducing social care waiting times and increasing fee rates paid to social care providers.

Determination

3) The minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set in annex A of this determination.

4) The grant will be paid as a one-off payment, expected in September 2023.

Grant conditions

5) Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the ministerÌýdetermines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions specified in annex B.

6) Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Care.

Megan Bradish, Deputy Director

Department of Health and Social Care

28 July 2023

Annex A: Adult Social Care Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund - Workforce Fund allocations to local authorities 2023 to 2024

The 2023 to 2024 Adult Social Care Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF) Workforce Fund is distributed using the adult social care relative needs formula (ASC RNF). Where there were changes to the local authority boundaries, we used the same ASC RNF allocation shares for each local authority as those used in the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) final local government finance settlement for 2023 to 2024.

Table 1: MSIF Workforce Fund allocations to local authorities 2023 to 2024

 Local authority  MSIF Workforce Fund allocations to local authorities 2023 to 2024
Barking and Dagenham £1,388,614 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Barnet £2,201,389 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Barnsley £1,883,401 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bath and North East Somerset £1,109,832 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bedford £944,152 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bexley £1,411,903 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Birmingham £8,517,116 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Blackburn with Darwen £1,162,550 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Blackpool £1,374,354 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bolton £2,114,114 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole £2,661,297 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bracknell Forest £550,292 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bradford £3,493,673 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Brent £2,042,535 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Brighton and Hove £1,868,587 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bristol, City of £3,084,806 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bromley £1,810,484 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Buckinghamshire £2,541,797 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Bury £1,242,081 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Calderdale £1,400,105 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Cambridgeshire £3,534,503 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Camden £1,955,430 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Central Bedfordshire £1,316,999 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Cheshire East £2,206,178 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Cheshire West and Chester £2,231,395 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
City of London £74,202 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Cornwall £4,248,271 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
County Durham £4,292,363 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Coventry £2,358,907 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Croydon £2,131,203 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Cumberland £2,073,329 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Darlington £762,199 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Derby £1,746,782 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Derbyshire £5,516,528 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Devon £5,437,789 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Doncaster £2,296,275 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Dorset £2,595,690 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Dudley £2,374,965 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Ealing £2,155,885 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
East Riding of Yorkshire £2,199,077 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
East Sussex £3,932,344 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Enfield £1,975,008 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Essex £9,002,564 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Gateshead £1,723,537 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Gloucestershire £3,847,684 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Greenwich £2,023,129 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hackney £2,136,776 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Halton £972,013 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hammersmith and Fulham £1,396,705 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hampshire £7,230,797 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Haringey £1,746,224 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Harrow £1,474,947 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hartlepool £762,125 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Havering £1,529,476 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Herefordshire, County of £1,339,266 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hertfordshire £6,287,756 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hillingdon £1,583,351 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Hounslow £1,519,832 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Isle of Wight £1,165,590 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Isles of Scilly £19,259 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Islington £1,955,623 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Kensington and Chelsea £1,318,267 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Kent £9,375,077 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Kingston upon Hull, City of £2,209,684 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Kingston upon Thames £871,710 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Kirklees £2,828,570 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Knowsley £1,485,939 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Lambeth £2,294,810 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Lancashire £8,392,189 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Leeds £5,035,068 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Leicester £2,393,394 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Leicestershire £3,671,668 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Lewisham £2,080,321 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Lincolnshire £5,122,090 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Liverpool £4,497,268 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Luton £1,198,606 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Manchester £4,054,617 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Medway £1,517,596 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Merton £1,137,446 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Middlesbrough £1,152,696 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Milton Keynes £1,381,035 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Newcastle upon Tyne £2,282,513 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Newham £2,233,211 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Norfolk £6,355,073 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North East Lincolnshire £1,185,809 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North Lincolnshire £1,157,231 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North Northamptonshire £1,919,433 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North Somerset £1,405,167 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North Tyneside £1,568,096 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
North Yorkshire £3,685,893 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Northumberland £2,313,875 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Nottingham £2,357,334 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Nottinghamshire £5,364,086 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Oldham £1,706,914 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Oxfordshire £3,485,073 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Peterborough £1,207,026 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Plymouth £1,952,909 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Portsmouth £1,354,176 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Reading £866,118 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Redbridge £1,697,214 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Redcar and Cleveland £1,095,342 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Richmond upon Thames £1,005,031 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Rochdale £1,685,628 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Rotherham £2,045,957 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Rutland £206,408 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Salford £2,003,953 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Sandwell £2,810,390 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Sefton £2,319,096 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Sheffield £4,114,255 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Shropshire £2,119,773 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Slough £783,918 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Solihull £1,323,667 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Somerset £3,798,383 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
South Gloucestershire £1,422,048 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
South Tyneside £1,391,959 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Southampton £1,687,191 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Southend-on-Sea £1,253,167 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Southwark £2,388,693 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
St Helens £1,464,343 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Staffordshire £5,386,737 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Stockport £1,951,557 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Stockton-on-Tees £1,285,467 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Stoke-on-Trent £2,025,591 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Suffolk £4,960,045 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Sunderland £2,384,328 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Surrey £6,075,177 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Sutton £1,121,284 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Swindon £1,169,909 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Tameside £1,755,097 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Telford and Wrekin £1,177,567 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Thurrock £994,936 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Torbay £1,260,132 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Tower Hamlets £2,227,967 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Trafford £1,438,259 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wakefield £2,507,665 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Walsall £2,177,567 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Waltham Forest £1,655,719 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wandsworth £1,973,214 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Warrington £1,252,767 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Warwickshire £3,398,430 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
West Berkshire £761,782 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
West Northamptonshire £2,212,835 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
West Sussex £5,024,000 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Westminster £2,012,305 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Westmorland and Furness £1,739,737 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wigan £2,421,506 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wiltshire £2,772,576 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Windsor and Maidenhead £724,612 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wirral £2,738,063 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wokingham £610,750 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Wolverhampton £2,093,393 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Worcestershire £3,626,617 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
York £1,112,947 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý
Total £365,000,000 Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý

Note that funding is paid to local authorities with responsibility for adult social care only.

Annex B: grant conditions

In this annex:

  • ‘a recipient authority’ means a local authority asÌýlisted inÌýannex A to this determination
  • ‘the department’ means the Department of Health and Social Care
  • ‘fee rate’ means the rate determined and paid by a local authority to providers for care and support services
  • ‘grant’ means the amounts set out in annex A for each recipient authority
  • ‘Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund’ means the Adult Social Care Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund Grant Determination 2023 to 2024: No 31/6646
  • ‘minister’ means the Minister of State for Care (unless otherwise specified)

Use of the grant

1) The first condition is thatÌýtheÌýrecipient authority must allocate its full funding allocation from the grant on adult social care, as part of a substantial increase in planned adult social care spending.ÌýRecipient authorities must confirm through reporting (see paragraph 4) that they have allocated their full funding allocation from the grant on adult social care (ASC), and that this has been added to their existing ASC budgets.

2) The second condition is that the grant must be used to make improvements in at least one of the 3 target areas set out below. The target areas are the priority areas, as specified by the department, to improve through use of the grant. They are the same target areas as defined in the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund. The department will monitor these areas through specified performance metrics, in line with the initial Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund, to assess levels of improvement.

The target areas are:

  • increasing fee rates paid to adult social care providers in local areas
  • increasing adult social care workforce capacity and retention
  • reducing adult social care waiting times

Further information on each of the target areas is provided in the supporting guidance for the original Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund.

3) The third condition is that recipient authorities must provide a fully completed final report required under the third condition of the MSIF by 11:59pm on 22 May 2024 (see paragraph 3(b) and (c) of the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund grant conditions). This must provide assurance that performance of any areas not chosen as target areas have not worsened.

4) The template for this will be released in due course and recipient authorities must use the template provided by the department.

5) The department will provide information and support in relation to how to complete the reporting requirements, to help recipient authorities meet the grant conditions and achieve the purpose of the funding as set out in paragraph 2 of the grant determination.

6) Where a recipient authority identifies target areas where the performance metrics do not indicate any improvement, officials from the department may engage with the recipient authority to understand what additional support may be required to meet the grant conditions or to explain why the performance metrics indicate no improvement. This may include asking the recipient authority to provide more performance data, repeat exercises or work with a neighbouring recipient authority with a similar market to ascertain the reason for any failure to improve. The Secretary of State may at any time require a further external validation to be carried out by an appropriately qualified independent accountant or auditor on the use of the grant.

7) The contact details for submitting the returns at condition 3 is: msifcorrespondence@dhsc.gov.uk. The department reserves the right to provide for a later date for submission, update the means by which returns are submitted, and may provide alternative methods for submission in future, including a web-based system for greater efficiency.

Payment arrangements

8) The grant funding set out in annex A will be paid in a one-off payment expected in September 2023. The minister reserves the right to alter the timing or amount of grants payments.

9) Funding from the grant must be spent within the 2023 to 2024 financial year. If any funding from the grant is not spent within the designated financial year, the minister may require repayment of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the minister and notified in writing to the recipient authority.

Financial management

10) A recipient authority must maintain a sound system of internal financial controls.

11) If aÌýrecipient authority has any grounds for suspecting financial irregularity in the use of any grant paid under this funding agreement, it must notify the department immediately, explain what steps are being taken to investigate the suspicion and keep the department informed about the progress of the investigation. For these purposes ‘financial irregularity’ includes fraud or other impropriety, mismanagement, and the use of grant for purposes other than those for which it was provided.

Breach of conditions and withholding future funding

12) IfÌý the recipient authority fails to comply with any of these conditions, or if any overpayment is made under this grant, or any amount is paid in error, or any unspent funding is not returned, the minister may reduce, suspend or withhold grant payments or require the repayment of the whole or any part of the grant monies paid, as may be determined by the minister and notified in writing to the authority. Such sum as has been notified will immediately become repayable to the minister who may offset the sum against any future amount due to the recipient authority from central government.

13) The list below contains examples of a breach of the grant conditions:

a) inappropriate use of funding, or no evidence of funding having been spent on the specified purpose set out in paragraph 2 of the grant determination

b) failure to comply with reporting requirements (set out in paragraph 3 of this annex B), including failure to submit documents or submission of incomplete or incorrect documents in the opinion of the minister

c) no improvements in any of the target areas, or worsening of metrics in target areas. In this case, as set out in paragraph 6 above, the department will take steps to provide authorities with the opportunity to explain how they have used the funding and any additional context before considering further measures

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