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<p>Local authorities' expenditure on services, including on Adult Social Care for
previous years, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing</a><br>
<br> Councils have also been able to add a precept for adult social care onto their
council tax, which most of them have done. <br> <br> Local authority expenditure is
funded through a range of income sources including government grants, council tax,
business rates and fees and charges. Many government grants are not ring-fenced, leaving
local authorities to determine how much is spent on different services. <br> <br>
However, the Government has provided specific funding to councils for adult social
care in recent years, most noticeably through the improved Better Care Fund which
was supplemented by the additional £2 billion announced at Spring Budget 2017. Details
of individual council allocations of the Spring Budget funding can be found at <a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-allocations-of-the-additional-funding-for-adult-social-care</a><br>
<br> Details of the original improved Better Care Fund allocations along with the
potential revenue from the precept (as announced at SR15) can be found with core spending
power tables published with the LGFS - <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018"
target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018</a>.</p>
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