How much funding have you provided for the following activities in each of the last four years (20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24):
1. Welfare Rights/specialist benefits advice provision delivered in-house by the local authority
Please note that the responses below for 1a and 1b are estimated as all staff involved have this as an element of their core but it is not the sole function of any role, hence costs have been apportioned accordingly.
a. What is the total amount spent per year?
| 20/21 | 21/22 | 22/23 | 23/24 |
| £6,203 | £6,736 | £24,187 | £34,346 |
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, children’s social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g. HSF or covid recovery or other time-limited grants)
100%
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources
None
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources
None
e. Please specify the grants/other sources/arrangements referred to in 1c and d
Not applicable.
2. Welfare Rights/specialist benefits advice provision delivered by voluntary/community/partner organisations
a. What is the total amount spent per year?
£80,000
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, children’s social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g. HSF or covid recovery or other time-limited grants)
None
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources
None
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources
100%
e. Please specify the grants referred to in 2c and d
For Children’s Commissioning, the Quids for Kids service is funded by an annual grant that sits as an addendum to the main grant provided to Citizens Advice Bureau by the Communities Team with a value of £80,000.
For Adult Social Care Commissioning, for the Carers Support Devon Advice Service (Covering Devon Advice Service for Working Age Carers and Carers Advice on Benefits), with a value of £46.7k
3. General advice provision which may include benefits advice by voluntary/community/partner organisations a. What is the total amount spent per year?
20/21 – 400k
21/22 – 400k
22/23 – 400k
23/24 – 500k
24/25 – 500k
25/26 – 500k
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, childrens’ social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g HSF or Covid recovery or other time-limited grants)
100% from the Devon County Council Budget held by the Communities Team.
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources
0%
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources
0%
e. Please specify the grants referred to in 3c and d
Not applicable.