AIDS Support Grant Changes
posted: 12/08/2010
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The Department of Health wants people’s views about changes it plans in how it works out the amount of AIDS Support Grant (ASG) paid to each council. The deadline for comments is Wednesday 6 October.
Instead of working out the ASG amounts each year, The Department of Health wants to decide and tell councils now what they will get in the following four years. However they don’t guarantee anything about the future of ASG, because of the Autumn Spending Review, which will be announced in late October.
Two Options
They suggest two options. The first, which they prefer, is based on the current formula which would be frozen. This would mean using the most recent HIV data (on the numbers of people with HIV and of children with HIV in each district) to decide the grant for each year of the Spending Review. The second option uses another formula - the younger adults social care relative needs formula. This produces very strange results.
Impact in NW England
We have produced a table showing the amounts of ASG paid to NW councils this year and last year, and the amounts using the two formulas, that would be paid for the next four years.
The consultation proposals and response form are here
The deadline for replies is Wednesday 6 October.
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