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Public Health grant

Reprofiled budget

In 2019 to 2020 there was significant work undertaken to reprofile the budget for 2020 to 2021 and this was approved by Cabinet in December 2019. This included a contribution to the public health grant reserves because of the uncertainty about the future of the public health grant and some identified contract risks. Although there has been some change in these costs it provides an insight into how the grant is spent.

Summary of reprofiled budget
Expenditure

Summarised allocation

£,000s
Public Health Specialist Division 3,054
Divisional running costs 500
Mandated public health services:
  • sexual and reproductive health services
  • NHS health checks
  • health protection
  • national child measurement programme (including school nursing)
  • specialist support for NHS commissioning
19,379

Recommended public health services:

  • smoking cessation
  • substance misuse treatment
  • 0 to 5 years healthy child programme
  • fluoridation
 49,423

Additional public health services/functions:

  • public mental health
  • whole system approaches to obesity
  • infectious disease prevention
  • Health and Wellbeing Board and Forums
 1,145
Public health delivered through other council directorates
Expenditure

Summarised allocation

£,000s

Neighbourhoods

  • wellbeing service
  • welfare advice
 3,475

Education and skills

  • strategic commissioning
 150

Adult social care

  • strategic commissioning
  • adult social care public health programmes
 8,506
Corporate services 1,793
Contribution to public health grant reserves 1,070
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