This letter is issued to coincide with the overall Local Government Finance Settlement announced in Parliament on 5 December 2005. It notifies local authorities of both their adults' Personal Social Services specific revenue and capital grant funding, and their children's PSS funding insofar as this is provided by the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) grant. Includes contacts for specific grants. This circular should be cancelled on 31 March 2008.
Details of individual grant allocations (where these are available), and a brief description of each grant, appear in the relevant annexes. In addition to CAMHS, a number of the grants allocated by the Department of Health (DH) are intended to support both children and adults' services: Carers Grant, National Training Strategy Grant, Human Resources Development Strategy Grant and the Improving Information Management Grant. It is therefore important for this circular to be brought to the immediate attention of those responsible for children's services.
This letter is provided for information only, and should be read in conjunction with a similar circular issued by DfES LASSL (2005)4 in respect of children's PSS funding.
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