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<p>It is the decision of local councils whether to raise the adult social care precept
in order to pay for adult social care in their local area. The precept gives local
areas who are best placed to respond to local needs and pressures the flexibility
to be able to do so. There will be a statistical release showing the number of councils
taking up the precept on 30 March 2016.</p><p>Additionally, from April 2017 the Spending
Review makes available social care funds for local government, rising to £1.5 billion
by 2019-20, to be included in the Better Care Fund (BCF). We have deliberately distributed
the improved BCF in such a way that those councils with low council tax bases will
benefit most.</p><p>Taken together, the new precept and additional BCF contribution
mean local government has access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending
in real terms by the end of the Parliament.</p>
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