FOI - FOI001961 - Benefits

How much funding have you provided for the following activities in each of the last four years (20/21, 21/22, 22/23, 23/24):

1. Welfare Rights/specialist benefits advice provision delivered in-house by the local authority 
a. What is the total amount spent per year?
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, childrens social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g HSF or covid recovery or other time-limited grants) 
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources 
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources 
e. Please specify the grants/other sources/arrangements referred to in 1c and d

2. Welfare Rights/specialist benefits advice provision delivered by voluntary/community/partner organisations 
a. What is the total amount spent per year?
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, childrens social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g HSF or covid recovery or other time-limited grants) 
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources 
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources 
e. Please specify the grants referred to in 2c and d

3. General advice provision which may include benefits advice by voluntary/community/partner organisations 
a. What is the total amount spent per year?
b. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from core council budgets such as: general fund, housing rent account, social care, childrens' social services budgets services or other in-house budgets (i.e. excluding specific grants spent on benefit advice provision e.g HSF or Covid recovery or other time-limited grants) 
c. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from NHS/public health sources 
d. What proportion (or amount) of this funding comes from grant funding (including time-limited grants such as HSF)/arrangements from other sources 
e. Please specify the grants referred to in 3c and d