Decision details

The Department of Health and Social Care recently announced an extension to the Adult Social Care Infection Control Fund. The fund was put in place to support adult social care providers to reduce the rate of transmission in and between care homes and support wider workforce resilience. The initial tranche of grant monies were used to help providers pay for additional infection control measures including but not limited to: additional staff and /or maintain the normal wages of staff who, in order to reduce the spread of infection need to reduce the number of establishments in which they work, reduce the number of hours they work, or self-isolate.
Within the initial tranche of the fund, Councils were required to pay 75% directly to care home providers and use the 25% to support other provision. The 25% in Doncaster was distributed to Council and CCG contracted registered community care providers.
Within the second allocation of funding Councils are required to pay 80% directly to Care Home and Community Care providers registered within their boundaries (regardless of whether they are contracted with either the Council or CCG). Of the 80%, 71% must be awarded to Care Homes and 29% to Community Care. The remaining 20% is at the discretion of the Council to award and distribute.
The total amount of funding for Doncaster within the second tranche of the fund is £2.935m and therefore the discretionary 20% total amount is £587k.

To allocate the 20% discretionary amount of Infection Control Fund Grant as outlined within this report in line with the rule 16 Mayor’s decision 4th November 2020

Not allocate the additional discretionary 20% grant and return the funding to the DHSC