202300359552 · FOI · released
A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law: FOI release
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A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019.
The number of people aged under 65 who were receiving free personal care under Frank's Law in each financial year since 2019.
Response
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.
Some of the information you have requested in your first query is available from here: Local Governance Finance Settlement 2019-20 (www.gov.scot).
For 2020-21, the following table contains the funding provided to each local authority to support the delivery of FPC to under 65s:
2020-21 Free Personal Care Under 65s £m Aberdeen City 1.328 Aberdeenshire 1.374 Angus 0.587 Argyll & Bute 0.433 Clackmannanshire 0.272 Dumfries & Galloway 0.739 Dundee City 0.834 East Ayrshire 0.643 East Dunbartonshire 0.549 East Lothian 0.551 East Renfrewshire 0.481 Edinburgh, City of 3.057 Eilean Siar 0.133 Falkirk 0.863 Fife 1.958 Glasgow City 3.735 Highland 1.218 Inverclyde 0.415 Midlothian 0.479 Moray 0.498 North Ayrshire 0.696 North Lanarkshire 1.852 Orkney 0.113 Perth & Kinross 0.774 Renfrewshire 0.966 Scottish Borders 0.575 Shetland 0.120 South Ayrshire 0.564 South Lanarkshire 1.710 Stirling 0.514 West Dunbartonshire 0.482 West Lothian 0.987 Scotland 29.500
With effect from 1 April 2021, the £29.5 million funding was merged into the overall local government finance settlement block grant and, as such, individual local authority allocations are no longer separately identifiable.
All of the information you requested in your second query is available here: Health and social care analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). This link provides all of the data currently available regarding people under 65 receiving Free Personal Care in Scotland. Data for 2022-23 is not yet available but will be published via the same link in due course.
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