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<p>The Better Care Fund (BCF) is the Government’s national policy to drive forward
integration by enabling greater cooperation between health and social care partners
at a local level. It brings together ring-fenced budgets from National Health Service
clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations, and funding paid directly to local
government, including the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG), and the improved Better
Care Fund (iBCF) into a single pooled budget for health and social care services in
local areas to work more closely together, based on a plan agreed between the NHS
and local government.</p><p>The breakdown of funding in the BCF since 2015 is set
out in the following table.</p><p>The 2019 Spending Round announced that the BCF (NHS
CCG minimum allocations) would continue into 2020-21 with a real-terms increase of
3.4%, and that the iBCF would be maintained at flat cash.</p><p> </p><p>BCF Breakdown
2015-16 to 2019-20</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source</p></td><td><p>2015/16 (£ billion)</p></td><td><p>2016/17
(£ billion)</p></td><td><p>2017/18 (£ billion)</p></td><td><p>2018/19 (£ billion)</p></td><td><p>2019/20
(£ billion)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS funding (Minimum CCG Contribution)</p></td><td><p>£3.46</p></td><td><p>£3.519</p></td><td><p>£3.582</p></td><td><p>£3.650</p></td><td><p>£3.840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DFG</p></td><td><p>£0.22</p></td><td><p>£0.394</p></td><td><p>£0.431</p></td><td><p>£0.468</p></td><td><p>£0.505</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>iBCF</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£1.115</p></td><td><p>£1.499</p></td><td><p>£1.837</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social
care capital grant</p></td><td><p>£0.134</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winter
pressure grant funding</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>£0.240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total minimum contribution</p></td><td><p>£3.8</p></td><td><p>£3.9</p></td><td><p>£5.128</p></td><td><p>£5.617</p></td><td><p>£6.422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local
voluntary contribution from CCGs</p></td><td><p>£0.7</p></td><td><p>£1.0</p></td><td><p>£1.1</p></td><td><p>£1.108</p></td><td><p>Tbc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local
voluntary contribution from local authorities</p></td><td><p>£0.8</p></td><td><p>£1.0</p></td><td><p>£1.1</p></td><td><p>£1.009</p></td><td><p>Tbc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total
voluntary contribution</p></td><td><p>£1.5</p></td><td><p>£2.0</p></td><td><p>£2.2</p></td><td><p>£2.117</p></td><td><p>Tbc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£5.3</p></td><td><p>£5.9</p></td><td><p>£7.3</p></td><td><p>£7.734<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Tbc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DFG
top-up<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£0.042</p></td><td><p>£0.055</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>From BCF Planning Data 2018-19: <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/better-care-fund-2018-19-planning-data/"
target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/better-care-fund-2018-19-planning-data/</a></p><p><sup>2</sup>
Autumn Budget 2017 has provided an additional £42 million for the rest of the 2017-18
financial year. This additional funding was not subject to the BCF requirements, for
example, the need for local authorities and CCGs to jointly agree how to spend the
funding as part of their local BCF plan.</p>
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