General Fund Revenue Account Budget 2015-16

General Fund Revenue Account Budget 2015-16 Guidance notes for completing form SG: SPECIFIC AND SPECIAL REVENUE GRANTS These notes should be read in conjunction with RA General Guidance 2015-16

SPECIFIC LINE GUIDANCE FOR COMPLETING FORM SG: SPECIFIC AND SPECIAL GRANTS 2015-16 These notes should be read in conjunction with RA General Guidance 2015-16 These notes list what to include within each line. Exclusions are in italics. Local Services Support Grant (LSSG): This should be excluded from this form. The total of LSSG should be reported as income on the RA form on line 903. Please refer to the RA guidance notes for details. A. GRANTS WITHIN AEF (AGGREGATE EXTERNAL FINANCE) DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (DfE) Line 102 Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) Grant paid under Section 14 of the Education Act 2002 to local authorities in support of Schools Budgets. The figure should agree with that entered on the local authority s Section 251 budget statement for 2015-16. The terms and conditions of the DSG and a technical guidance document are available online here. Line 103 Pupil Premium Grant The Pupil Premium is provided to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap with their peers, and to support children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces. It is available to pupils who are currently eligible for Free School Meals or have been in any of the previous 6 years, children looked after for over 6 months, children adopted from care, and service children. The rates for 2015-16 are available online here. Line 106 Education Services Grant Non-ringfenced grant to local authorities which can be used in support of central education functions. Technical guidance is available online here. Line 107 Universal Infants Free School Meals The universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) grant enables schools to provide free school meals to all pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2. Information on how the grant will be paid to local authorities for maintained schools is online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-mealsconditions-of-grant. 2

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT (DfT) Line 221 GLA Transport grant Grant paid to the Greater London Authority for those purposes of Transport for London which involve only current expenditure; grant used to finance capital expenditure should be recorded as income on the appropriate capital form. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DH) Line 313 Public Health Grant [Excludes Children 0-5 funding allocation] The public health grant is being provided to give local authorities the funding needed to discharge their new public heath responsibilities. The funds are to be used to: improve the health of local populations carry out health protection functions delegated from the Secretary of State reduce health inequalities across the life course, including within hard to reach groups ensure the provision of population healthcare advice. The grant will be made to upper-tier and unitary local authorities in England and paid in quarterly instalments. Expenditure from the grant should comply with the Conditions that have been placed on how it can be used more details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ring-fenced-public-health-grants-tolocal-authorities-2013-14-and-2014-15 Line 314 Public Health Grant - Children 0-5 funding allocation [October 2015] Include the 0-5 children s public health grant transferring from NHS England to upper tier local authorities from 1st October 2015. Line 318 Adult Social Care Implementation 2015-16 Comprises funding for: Dilnot Implementation including early assessment, Deferred Payment Agreements, Carers and Care Act Implementation grant. DEPARTMENT FOR WORK & PENSIONS (DWP) Line 406 Housing Benefit Subsidy Admin Grant This includes grants toward the costs of administering the Housing Benefit schemes, including the additional amounts provided solely for the purpose of assisting LAs in their statutory duties to administer and process Housing Benefit claims and directly related enquiries during the economic downturn. 3

DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DCLG) Line 540 New Homes Bonus The New Homes Bonus scheme is an incentive for local authorities and communities to increase their aspirations for housing growth. Commenced in April 2011, the New Homes Bonus match funds the additional council tax raised for new homes and empty properties brought back into use, and is paid for six years. Since April 2012 it has also included an additional amount for affordable homes. More details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/increasing-the-number-of-availablehomes/supporting-pages/new-homes-bonus Line 545 The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Record the support given for the revenue expenditure which is incurred in meeting payments to contractors for the capital element of new projects undertaken through the PFI. Line 698 Other Grants within AEF Specific Grants inside AEF - These are revenue grants which are paid to local authorities by individual government departments, for which the local authority has sole responsibility for decisions on how the grant is allocated. The main purpose for the provision of these grants is to deliver core local authority services. Record any grant within AEF for which there is no specific line in the SG form on Memorandum Box A including: Line 801 Primary PE and Sport Premium Grant paid under Section 14 of the Education Act 2002 which local authorities are required to pass on to maintained schools. The grant must be spent by schools on improving the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of pupils so that they develop healthy lifestyles. Detailed conditions of grant are available online here. Line 802 Promote Innovation in the Delivery of Children s Services The Children s Social Care Innovation Programme supports the development, testing and spreading of more effective ways of supporting children who need help from children s social care services. Whilst all ideas relevant to children s social care will be welcome, the Programme has two main focus areas: Rethinking children s social work improving the quality and impact of children s social work Rethinking support for adolescents in or on the edge of care improving the quality and impact of services which provide a stable effective launch pad for adolescents to transition successfully into adulthood. Funding is available to LAs, charities and anyone with ideas for improvements in children s social care. Line 803 KS2 Monitoring and Moderation 4

Since 2013 LAs have had a statutory duty to moderate Key Stage 2 teacher assessment judgements in writing in 25% of their schools. Formula funding is being provided in recognition of the new duty. Line 804 Phonics Screening Check Since 2012 LAs have had a statutory duty to monitor administration of the phonics screening check in 10% of their schools and to collect schools data for submission to DfE. Formula funding is provided in recognition that this is a new duty from 2012. Line 805 SEND implementation grant To fund transition costs and new burdens for LAs as a result of Bill reforms, including Personal Budgets Local Offer and Education Health and Care plans. Line 806 Staying Put grant Grant relates to new legal duty on local authorities to provide financial support for every young person who wants to stay with their foster parents until their 21st birthday. DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT (DfT) Line 807 Metropolitan Railway Passenger Services (include NEXUS Tyne and Wear Metro) Payments to Integrated Transport Authorities to support PTE-secured rail services. Line 808 Mersey Travel Grant for Merseytravel PTE to cover the subsidy element of the Merseyrail Electrics rail network funding under a concession let by Merseytravel ITA. Paid in turn by the PTE to the Merseyrail Electrics concessionaire. Line 809 Local Sustainable Transport Fund The Department for Transport established a Local Sustainable Transport Fund to challenge local authorities outside London to bid for funding to support packages of transport interventions that support economic growth and reduce carbon emissions in their communities as well as delivering cleaner environments and improved air quality, enhanced safety and reduced congestion. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DH) Line 810 Local Reform and Community Voices The new Local Reform and Community Voices Grant is comprised of five funding streams: additional funding for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) in Hospitals; additional local Healthwatch funding; funding for the transfer of Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (ICAS) to local authorities; funding for the transfer of Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) to local authorities; and funding for the veterans Guaranteed Income Payments (GIPs) social care charges exemption. DEPARTMENT FOR WORK & PENSIONS (DWP) Line 811 Housing Benefit Reform Transitional Funding This is an additional grant to allow local authorities to proactively support people during the transition period of Housing Benefit reforms. 5

Line 812 Social Fund administrative funding A grant towards the cost of administering the localised Social Fund programme funding. Line 813 Right to Control Trailblazers The Right to Control is a new legal right for disabled people. It gives disabled people more choice and control over the support they need to go about their daily lives. Disabled adults living in seven test areas will be able to combine the support they receive from six different sources and decide how best to spend the funding to meet their needs. Seven local authority areas are testing the Right to Control are: Essex County Council Leicester City Council London Borough of Barnet London Borough of Newham Surrey County Council (two parts only: Epsom and Ewell Borough Council and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Sheffield City Council Greater Manchester (including Manchester City Council, Oldham Council, Bury Council, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and Trafford Council) DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DCLG) Line 814 Neighbourhood Planning Front Runners The purpose of the grant is to provide assistance to local planning authorities to engage with a process of neighbourhood-level planning and to support the delivery of new neighbourhood development plans these are a central element of the Government s Big Society programme. The grant is needed to cover the new burdens placed upon local planning authorities by the Localism Act. Line 815 Greater London Authority Settlement The settlement for the Greater London Authority is to reflect its new housing and regeneration responsibilities from April 2012. These new responsibilities, as a result of the London reforms in the Localism Act 2011, represent a major decentralisation of power away from Whitehall to London government, enabling the capital to manage their own affairs. The London reforms will: devolve the activities of the Homes and Communities Agency in London to the Authority; abolish the London Development Agency and fold in its activities to the Authority; and Enable the Mayor of London to establish a Mayoral Development Corporation to oversee the long term development of the Olympic Park and surrounding area. Line 816 Preventing Repossessions Fund The Preventing Repossession Fund, which is being allocated to every local housing authority in England, enables them to offer struggling homeowners small interest-free loans of less than 5,000 or grants to help ease debt pressures and give them the breathing space to get back top of their finances. Line 817 Court Desk Revenue Grant The funding will be distributed to 51 local authorities to commission a Court Desk scheme at their county court where one is not already provided independently or via the Legal Services Commission. 6

Line 818 Transition to capped costs Line 819 Deferred Payments Line 820 Additional Rural Funding The additional funding for the most rural authorities. Line 821 Troubled Families grants Various grants paid through troubled families including dedicated Troubled Families Co-ordinators, and a mix of up front fees to attach troubled families and result payments. Line 822 Coastal Communities Fund A grant towards projects that creates thousands of jobs and bring new business opportunities to coastal communities. Line 823 New Homes Bonus: Returned Funding This is funding that was originally held back from the Local Government Finance Settlement to fund the New Homes Bonus. As outlined in the summer 2012 Business Rates Retention: Technical Consultation any funding that was not used for this purpose has been returned to local authorities prorata to their 2013-14 start-up funding allocation. Line 824 Fire Revenue Grant Funding provided to Fire and Rescue Authorities to cover additional costs associated with enhancing national resilience such as New Dimension and FireLink. Line 825 Council Tax Support New Burdens Funding In respect of the additional and unavoidable administrative costs to local authorities, of the replacement of Council Tax Benefit with local Council Tax Support schemes. Line 826 Council Tax Freeze Grant (2015-16 only) A single one-off payment of unringfenced grant for 2015-16 made under Section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 in support of the scheme to each eligible billing and major precepting authority. Exclusion: The Council Tax Freeze Compensation Part 1 and Council Tax Freeze Compensation Part 2 should not be included in line 826 as these are now incorporated within the Settlement Funding Assessment. Line 827 Weekly Collection Support Scheme The Weekly Collection Support Scheme is a challenge fund available to support local authorities in delivering better weekly collections of household waste and recycling. Line 828 Digital Partners Programme A grant to London Borough of Camden to support the Digital Partners Programme. The purpose of the programme is to support effective online services for citizens through GOV.UK, to provide local authorities and other partners with daily updates of central government news and information and to encourage and support local authorities to adopt and implement the digital by default strategy. 7

Line 829 Innovation Challenge Award The Grant is made-up of two elements. The first (likely funding 2.3m) is a reward element for the 7 authorities who are eligible to bid for the Efficiency Support Grant who demonstrate rapid progress on their efficiency plans. The second element (a total of 6.9m) is a fund available to all councils who can bid for funds on the basis that they are on the right track to sharing management functions. Line 830 Community Right to Challenge New Burdens payments towards funding the administration required to implement the Community Right to Challenge provisions in the Localism Act 2011. Line 831 Community Right to Bid New Burdens payments towards funding the administration required to implement the Assets of Community Value (Community Right to Bid) provisions in the Localism Act 2011. Line 832 Local Authority Social Housing Fraud DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS (DEFRA) Line 833 Commons Pioneer Authorities The grant is to pay for the processing costs of the estimated number of public interest-type applications to be received by the authority. Public interest applications are free to applicants. Line 834 National Parks & Broads Grant paid to National Park Authorities and the Broads Authority. Line 835 Commons Registration Authorities The grant is to pay for the processing costs of the estimated number of public interest-type applications to be received by the authority and other implementation costs which are not recoverable by fees. Public interest applications are free to applicants. HOME OFFICE (HO) Line 836 Asylum Seekers The Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) Grant sets out the conditions under which local authorities may claim reimbursement of the costs they incur in supporting and caring for UASC up to 95 per night for an under 16 and 71 for a 16/17 year old. A UASC is defined as an individual who is under 18, has applied for asylum in his/her own right, is separated from both parents and is not being cared for by an adult who by law or custom has responsibility to do so. The UASC Leaving Care Costs Grant is intended to assist local authorities to meet the costs of supporting young people (over 18) who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) and who are now former relevant children within the meaning of section 23C(1) of the Children Act 1989. It is in addition to other sources of support that may be available to young people aged 18 or over and is a contribution to Local Authority costs. It will not generally affect individuals entitlements to other assistance. Line 837 Counter Terrorism A grant to ensure that the police have the necessary resources to respond to the changing demands posed by the terrorist threat. Line 838 Police Innovation Fund 8

Grants awarded to Police & Crime Commissioners to incentivise collaboration, support improved police ICT and digital working and enable investment in other innovative delivery approaches with the potential to improve policing and deliver further efficiency in the future. The Fund was established from 2014-15 and is worth 70 million in 2015-16. B. GRANTS OUTSIDE AEF (AGGREGATE EXTERNAL FINANCE) DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS (BIS) Line 715 Adult and Community Learning from Skills Funding Agency Grants made by the Skills Funding Agency for Adult Safeguarded Learning (Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities, Personal and Community Development Learning, Wider Family Learning and Family Literacy, Language & Numeracy) and Formal First Step provision. DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (DfE) Line 716 Sixth Form Funding from the Education Funding Agency (EFA) Grants made by the EFA to fund places for 16-18 year olds in maintained school sixth forms. See latest guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-funding-regulations-for-post-16- provision DEPARTMENT FOR WORK & PENSIONS (DWP) Line 745 Mandatory Rent Allowances: subsidy Record the subsidies received towards the cost of those tenants living in private rented accommodation who qualify for a rent allowance covering the whole or part of their rent (depending on their financial circumstances). Line 746 Mandatory Rent Rebates outside HRA: subsidy Record the Subsidies received towards the cost of Rent Rebates paid for accommodation which is not covered by part VI of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. This will include (amongst others) such accommodation as used for homeless people in board and lodging, accommodation held on a licence agreement by an authority, accommodation held on a lease of no more than 10 years, and local authority owned hostels and caravan sites. Line 747 Rent Rebates Granted to HRA Tenants: subsidy Record the subsidies received towards the cost of those tenants living in HRA accommodation who qualify for a rent rebates covering the whole or part of their rent (depending on their financial circumstances). 9

Line 798 Other grants outside AEF Specific Grants outside AEF - These are revenue grants, which are paid to local authorities by individual government departments. However, the local authority usually only acts as the middle person, as the grants are passed over to a third party which administers the service. The local authority does not normally have any control over the service for which the grant was intended for. This responsibility rests solely with the third party that receives the grant. Record any grant outside AEF for which there is no specific line on the SG form in Memorandum Box B including: DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (DfE) Line 901 The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund provides targeted financial support for young people aged 16 to 19 to ensure they can continue to participate. The majority of the fund is allocated to institutions for them to distribute according to need. A small proportion of the fund is paid to local authorities for them to distribute set amounts to local maintained schools; in line with EFA arrangements for all school sixth form funding. Local authorities may also have their own 16 to 19 Bursary allocation; if they are engaged, for example, in mainstream delivery on behalf of the Education Funding Agency; or European Social Fund delivery on behalf of the Skills Funding Agency. Local authorities may also be given a small pot of 16 to 19 Bursary Funding that they can distribute to any 16-19 maintained special schools that are not in receipt of EFA funding and therefore have no other access to the 16-19 Bursary Fund. DEPARTMENT FOR WORK & PENSIONS (DWP) Line 902 Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) Record the amount of the Government contribution towards Discretionary Housing Payments that has been spent. DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (DCLG) Line 903 Housing Acts/ Urban Developments - contributions towards cost of loan charges Contributions towards the cost of loan charges incurred by local authorities in respect of - - grants they have made under the Home Improvement Grant system; - costs of environmental works in General Improvement Areas and in Housing Action Areas (including enveloping schemes); - costs of giving mandatory assistance to eligible private owners of designated defective dwellings sold by the public sector; - costs relating to the conversion or improvement of their non-hra dwellings; - losses incurred in the exercise of their slum clearance functions. Most of these grants were commuted on 1 October 1992. Line 904 Local Enterprise Partnerships Core Funding A grant for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to drive forward their growth priorities, allow them to do long term resource planning and strengthen support and autonomy of the business led boards. This is paid through unring-fenced section 31 grant to the designated local authorities acting as the accountable body. 10

DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS (DEFRA) Line 905 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) The grant is to support local authorities in delivering their duties as set out in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 in respect of England s 34 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). It is paid to 32 host authorities who collect it on behalf of all the local authorities with an interest in a particular AONB (around a total of 130 local authorities in all). DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS (BIS) Line 906 Further Education funding from Skills Funding Agency - other 19+ funding Grants made by the Skills Funding Agency for Adult Skills provision (classroom and work based provision including apprenticeships) and associated additional learning support and learner support. Line 907 Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Payments Payments made by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to local authorities, for staff related (Crombie payments) and other inherited liabilities of higher education institutions formerly under LEA control. Line 908 Regional Growth Fund (Revenue) EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Line 909 European Community grants Record the total amount for all EC grants issued. Items to exclude from the SG form Council Tax Freeze Compensation Exclude: The Council Tax Freeze Compensation Part 1 and Council Tax Freeze Compensation Part 2 should not be included in line 826 as these are now incorporated within the Settlement Funding Assessment. Council tax support is funded through Formula Funding. Work Choice This should be reported as income on the RA form on appropriate service line. Local Services Support Grant (LSSG): This should be reported as income on the RA form on line 903. Please refer the RA guidance notes for details. LFEPA Civil Contingencies is now funded through Formula Funding. Concessionary Fares grant is now funded through Formula Funding. General GLA grant: is now funded through Formula Funding. Learning Disability and Health Reform Grant is now funded through Formula Funding. 11

Better Care Fund (BCF): The NHS Funding transferred through the Better Care Fund (BCF) which is a single pooled budget to support health and social care services is not a grant income but an income to be netted off the appropriate service line on the RA form. Details on the Better Care Fund (BCF) can found at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/part-rel/transformation-fund/bcf-plan/ Lottery Funding: is not a grant; it should be netted off expenditure recorded on appropriate RA form line. Magistrates' Courts: are now the responsibility of Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS). NDR allowance: is not a grant; it should be netted off expenditure recorded on RA form line 628, "Local Tax Collection - Other". Police Principal Formula grant: record on RA form line 956. Training Support Programme: now funded through Formula Grant. Regional Development Agencies: grants to local authorities are capital rather than revenue grants. Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme is not a grant. Income and expenditure in relation to landfill allowance to be recorded on RA form Line 582. Firefighters pension top up grant should not be included in the RA and SG forms as it is paid to the Firefighters Pension Fund. Police pension top-up grant should not be included in the SG form. The payment by Secretary of State should be shown as income in the total police services line 601 on the RA form. The transfer into the Police Pension Fund should be shown as expenditure in the same total police services line. Where the payment goes the other way the flows are in reverse i.e. the payment to the Secretary of State is expenditure and the transfer from the Police Pension Fund is income. The net effect in the total police services line on the RA form would be nil. National International and Capital City Grant is a single payment to the Greater London Authority on behalf of the Mayor s Office for Policing and Crime which is included in the Police Core Settlement which is included on the RA line 956. Homelessness prevention is funded through Formula Funding. Local Welfare Provision Grant: now funded through Formula Funding RA line 951. Efficiency Support Funding: now funded through Formula Funding RA line 951. 12