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.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 29/07/2021
Decision due: 25 Mar 2021 by Director of Adults, Health and Well-Being
Contact: Kathryn Anderson-Bratt, Head of Service - Commissioning and Contracts Email: Kathryn.Anderson-Bratt@doncaster.gov.uk Tel: 01302 737013.