DH ECH Fund 2008 - 10
Results
Speaking at the regional dignity road show in Barnsley on 21 July 2008, Ivan Lewis, Minister for Social Care at the Department of Health announced the 26 successful Extra Care Housing bids for the 2008-2010 £80m grant round. A grant totalling £76,498,265 was allocated to 26 authorities, and the balance as per the LAC(DH)(2010) (opens new window). The authorities with adult social care responsibilities include a mix of unitary and two-tier authorities.
Extra Care Housing Fund 2008-2010
The period for submitting bids to the Department of Health Extra Care Housing Fund started on 5 May 2008 and ended at midnight on 12 May 2008.
We have received 61 bids for a total funding requested of £189,685,227.
'Building on the success of its £147m capital spending from 2004 to 2008, and following the recent LA Circular setting out specific revenue and capital allocations for 2008-11, the Department of Health is adding a further £80m grant programme for extra care housing over the next 2 years, approx £40m per annum.'
For information, the two bidding documents were:
- The Bidding Guidance (opens new window)
- The Bidding Form (opens new window)
Questions & Answers (opens new window) - anonymised questions asked during the bidding period and their associated answers.
New: please note that questions received after 4pm on Thursday 8th May 2008 were answered individually and not placed on this document.
You can find a copy of the Minister's announcement (opens new window) about the Extra Care Housing Fund 2008-10, and further information about the Extra Care Housing Fund and the wider Department of Health agenda on Housing with Care, on the Department of Health website.
Other information and resources can be found on this website, but key supporting documents include:
National Housing Policy Documents:
- Homes for the future: more affordable, more sustainable - Housing Green Paper: This Housing Green Paper seeks views on the Government's proposals to increase the supply of housing, to provide well designed and greener homes that are supported by infrastructure and to provide more affordable homes to buy or rent. Link to DCLG website for the Green Paper document.
- National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society - Text summary of National Housing Strategy for an Ageing Society and link to DCLG website page for the Strategy document.
- Building Our Futures - Meeting the housing needs of an ageing population - A report to assist people involved in planning for housing and related services.
Local Authority Circulars and Letters
- LASSL(DH)(2007)2
Adults' Personal Social Services (PSS): Specific revenue and capital grant allocations and contributions to area based grant for 2008-09, 2009-10 & 2010-11. This is issued to follow up the overall Local Government Finance Settlement announced in Parliament on 06 December 2007. This includes a specific reference to the Extra Care Housing Grant 2008-10 (see below). - LAC (DH)(2008)1: Transforming social care
This Local Authority Circular sets out information to support the transformation of social care as signalled in the Department of Health's social care Green Paper, 'Independence, well-being and choice' (2005) and reinforced in the White Paper, 'Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services' in 2006. It describes the vision for development of a personalised approach to the delivery of adult social care and context in which this policy is grounded. It also includes a copy of the Social Care Reform Grant Determination and the details of the new ring-fenced grant to help councils to redesign and reshape their systems over the next 3 years.