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Care providers, residents and staff will all benefit from additional funding, totalling £1.4 billion, to support the social care sector.
Made available over three years to help increase the fee rates local authorities pay to care providers, further funding of more than £1 billion will also be available for local authorities in 2022/23 to fund social care. This will help councils respond effectively to rising demand and cost pressures.
This is in addition to the £300 million announced last week for workforce recruitment and retention - taking the total to £462.5 million.
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: “It is vital we continue to do all we can to protect social care during the pandemic and it is more important than ever the sector takes advantage of its priority booster status since the emergence of the Omicron variant. At the same time we need to plan for the longer term - and this money and the details confirmed will help do that.”
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