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Local Government Act 2000

Welfare services

212.Part V of the Act includes provision for a new framework within which local authorities will work jointly with other agencies and partners to plan and commission welfare services for vulnerable people. It creates a new central government grant to replace the current fragmented funding arrangements for welfare services with one single budget from April 2003.

213.Funding which will be transferred to the new grant includes:

  • Housing Benefit paid in respect of support services;

  • Housing Corporation Supported Housing Management Grant;

  • Home Office Probation Accommodation Grants;

  • grants made by DETR to Home Improvement Agencies;

  • relevant elements of DSS Resettlement Programme Revenue and of local authority Total Standard Spending.

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