Councils must protect access to social care to receive extra £2bn in funding

Councils will have to "protect access to social care" to get hold of £2bn in additional funding from the NHS designed to promote integrated care, the government has said.

In the spending review announcement in June, chancellor George Osborne said a £3.8bn "pooled budget" would be set up to fund integrated health and social care in 2015-16 to reduce hospital episodes for older and disabled people.

Of the £3.8bn, £1.8bn is pre-existing resources being spent across health and social care, but the other £2bn is new funding that will be transferred from the NHS into the pooled budget.

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