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Improved Better Care Fund (Projected) (15402) Metric type
- Help text
- The improved Better Care Fund (iBCF) grant was announced in the 2015 Spending Review and was introduced from 2017/18 onwards. The iBCF is passed to local authorities with social care responsibilities as a Section 31 grant,. The grant can only be used only for the purposes of:
- meeting adult social care needs
- reducing pressures on the NHS, including seasonal winter pressures
- supporting more people to be discharged from hospital when they are ready
- ensuring that the social care provider market is supported.
From 2020-21, Winter Pressures Grant allocations has been rolled into the Improved Better Care Fund, and no longer ringfenced for alleviating winter pressures.
- Modified
- 16 Feb 2023
- Data last updated
- 14 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Improved Better Care Fund (Projected)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 3
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Pounds (£millions) Projected
- Dataset
- Core spending power
- Collection
- Core spending power
- Source
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
- is found in the following lists
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