PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Fees and Charges (20 September 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions her Department has had with the local authorities that are trailblazing the new adult social care charging system on the adequacy of the funding made available to local authorities for implementing those reforms.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The Department is working with the six trailblazer local authorities implementing early adult social care charging reform. All trailblazer local authorities have received funding towards the costs associated with implementing charging reform in an accelerated timeframe and will receive additional funding for the early extension to the means test and cap on care costs. The Institute for Fiscal Studies positively assessed the modelling for these reforms in 2018 and in 2020, the Government Actuarial Department concluded that the model is appropriate for estimating the costs of reforms.

Answered by:
Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
23 September 2022