Approval has been given to submit an
Expression of Interest for the Accelerating Reform Fund for Adult
Social Care.
This is for up to £42.6m nationally for local authorities
working in partnership with other local authorities within an
Integrated Care System. The funding will be over two years to
support innovation in social care, growing and accelerating
projects with a focus on supporting unpaid carers.
A consortium has been formed with Humber and North Yorkshire and
other local authorities with North East Lincs as the lead
authority. The organisations have worked together to look at the
priorities outlined in the guidance and selected two projects. The
first being the provision of shared lives and the second to support
unpaid carers to have short breaks. If successful, the consortium
will receive £300k. NE Lincs will project manage and
administer the fund. Top up funding is intended to cover some
programme costs. The amount of funding which North Yorkshire
Council will receive is likely to be around £300k over two
years. This is non recurrent funding.
Following recent changes to the Financial Procedure Rules, the
Executive Member Finance has also been consulted on the funding
submission.