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Adult Social Care Infection Control and Testing Fund: round 3 (25 February 2022)
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Adult Social Care Infection Control and Testing Fund: round 3
Sets out the measures that round 3 of the Infection Control and Testing Fund supports, including distribution of funds, conditions and reporting requirements.
- From:
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Published
- 21 October 2021
- Last updated
- 25 February 2022 — See all updates
Applies to England
Documents
Adult Social Care Infection Control and Testing Fund, round 3: guidance
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Adult Social Care Infection Control and Testing Fund, round 3: local authority circular
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Annex A: grant determination
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Annex B: grant allocations
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Annex B: table of allocations
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 38.8 KB
Annex C: grant conditions
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Annex D: assurance statement
ODT, 80.8 KB
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Annex E: local authority reporting template: reporting point 1, due 14 January 2022
ODS, 106 KB
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Annex E: local authority reporting template: reporting point 2, due 28 February 2022
ODS, 116 KB
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Annex E: local authority reporting template: reporting point 3, due 29 April 2022
ODS, 117 KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Details
The Infection Control and Testing Fund has been extended, with an extra £388 million of funding from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022, to support the care sector to put in place crucial measures over the winter period. The purpose of this fund is to support adult social care providers (including those with whom the local authority does not have a contract) to:
- reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmission within and between care settings through effective infection prevention and control practices and increase COVID-19 and flu vaccine uptake among staff
- conduct testing of staff and visitors in care settings to identify and isolate positive cases, and in order to enable close contact visiting where possible
This brings the total ring-fenced funding for infection prevention and control to almost £1.75 billion and support for testing to almost £523 million in care settings.
This is the third round of the Infection Control and Testing Fund, which consolidated the Infection Control Fund and Rapid Testing Fund. It replaces the extended Infection Control and Testing Fund, which operated until 30 September 2021.
Published 21 October 2021
Last updated 25 February 2022 + show all updates