Dan Peters 18 June 2024

Councils and NHS row over Better Care Fund use

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Some Integrated Care Boards (ICB) are seeking to challenge or repurpose the parts of the Better Care Fund (BCF) earmarked for social care funding, senior Local Government Association (LGA) councillors have been told.

A report to the latest meeting of the LGA’s executive advisory board said it was ‘offering some support to councils in systems which cannot agree the use of the BCF’.

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