Social Services: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of delaying the release of the 2024-25 funding allocation of the Accelerating Reform Fund on unpaid carers.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Government recognises that innovation is vital to support adult social care to adjust to the changing needs of the population. We want to support local authorities to adopt new approaches to delivering care, improving outcomes of people who draw on care and their unpaid carers. This includes enshrining home-first principles that enable people to live independently in their communities for longer.
The Government is committed to ensuring that families have the support they need. We want to ensure that people who care for family and friends are better able to look after their own health and wellbeing.
The Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF) aims to address barriers to the adoption and scaling of innovation in adult social care and improve support for unpaid carers. A decision on the release of 2024/25 funding allocations for the ARF will be shared shortly.
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