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News
Adult social care extension to Infection Control and Testing Fund 2021 (8 July 2021)
Guidance
Adult social care extension to Infection Control and Testing Fund 2021
Sets out the measures that the extension to the Infection Control and Testing Fund supports, including distribution of funds, conditions and reporting requirements. We’ve extended the fund until 30 September 2021.
- From:
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Published
- 2 July 2021
- Last updated
- 8 July 2021 — See all updates
- Applies to:
- England
Documents
Adult social care: extension to Infection Control and Testing Fund - guidance
PDF, 283KB, 30 pages
Adult social care: extension to Infection Control and Testing Fund - local authority circular
PDF, 157KB, 6 pages
Annex A: grant determination
PDF, 144KB, 4 pages
Annex B: grant allocations
PDF, 150KB, 4 pages
Annex B: table of allocations
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 36.6KB
Annex C: grant conditions
PDF, 183KB, 14 pages
Annex D: assurance statement
PDF, 63.9KB, 2 pages
Annex E: ICTF2 reporting template 1 - due 1 September 2021
ODS, 84.7KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Annex E: ICTF2 reporting template 2 - due 29 October 2021
ODS, 87.7KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Details
The Infection Control and Testing Fund consolidated the Infection Control Fund and Rapid Testing Fund. By June 2021, these funding streams had provided almost £1.35 billion ring-fenced funding for infection prevention and control, and £288 million for rapid testing in care settings. This has now been extended again until 30 September 2021, providing an additional £251.3 million for the care sector.
The purpose of this fund is to support adult social care providers to:
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reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmission within and between care settings through effective infection prevention and control practices and increase uptake of staff vaccination
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conduct testing of staff and visitors in care homes, high risk supported living and extra care settings, in order to enable close contact visiting where possible
This brings the total ring-fenced funding for infection prevention and control to almost £1.49 billion and support for lateral flow testing to £396 million in care settings.
Published 2 July 2021
Last updated 8 July 2021 + show all updates