Learning Disability and Autism Community Discharge Grant 2020 to 2023

The Department of Health and Social Care has today (26 October) published information for councils in England about the Community Discharge Grant, to help address double running costs in 2020 to 2023. Double running costs occur before a patient’s formal discharge, where a person is still an inpatient requiring a bed, but a community care package is also in place.

The Learning Disability and Autism Community Discharge Grant is a non-ring fenced grant available to councils in England to help accelerate discharge of patients with a learning disability or autism (or both) from mental health hospitals into the community.