A breakdown of funding provided to each local authority to support delivery of free personal care under Frank's Law: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.


Information requested

You asked for: 

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. 

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the websites listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy

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