This approach will be further developed at the Spending Review in 2020.This Spending Round focuses on day-to-day resource spending. This budgeting guidance applies to in-year control from 2019-20. This funding will support local authorities to meet rising demand and continue to stabilise the social care system. It also gives government departments and the devolved administrations the financial certainty needed to focus on delivering Brexit on 31 October. The Spending Round confirms:the government’s commitment to a £7.1 billion increase in funding for schools by 2022-23 (£4.6 billion above inflation), compared to 2019-20 funding levels. It funds the people’s priorities: high quality, readily-accessible healthcare; schools and colleges that ensure every child receives a superb education; reducing crime and making people safe. For instance:continued funding for the Troubled Families programme, which supports vulnerable families with a range of issues, including those from ethnic minorities;additional police funding is intended to reduce crime and therefore benefit victims of crime, amongst whom some ethnic minority groups are over-represented;increased funding for Further Education, a sector where students from ethnic minorities are more likely to be overrepresented compared to the population average.The Barnett formula has been applied in accordance with the funding arrangements for the devolved administrations set out in the seventh edition of the ‘Statement of funding policy’ published in November 2015The tables below set out the comparability and population factors applied during this Spending Round. Increasing funding for cutting-edge technology and the best intelligence and law enforcement capabilities will enable police officers to continue to target the worst and most sophisticated offenders;increasing the budget for counter-terrorism policing in line with inflation, including continuing the additional £160 million announced at Budget 2018, which maintains current counter-terrorism capability and protects officer numbers;£110 million additional funding, plus £65 million of Official Development Assistance (maintaining £480 million of Brexit funding in real terms, including continued funding for Border Force capability and delivery of the The government is committed to tackling crime and keeping the The government will therefore undertake a formal review of the powers, capabilities, governance and funding needed across the policing and law enforcement landscape, including the National Crime Agency and the wider justice system, to enable it to improve its response to serious and organised crime in all its forms. To support this, the Spending Round confirms for 2020-21:an extra £750 million for policing to begin delivery of the government’s commitment to recruit 20,000 additional officers by 2023 (up to 6,000 officers are to be in place by the end of 2020-21). As is customary, the government will consult on Council Tax Referendum Principles later this year as part of the Local Government Finance Settlement. This is the largest planned annual growth rate in at least 15 years;an extra £750 million for policing to begin delivery of the government’s commitment to recruit 20,000 additional officers by 2023 (up to 6,000 officers are to be in place by the end of 2020-21), providing them with the resources they need to tackle serious violence, and make the an additional £30 million to safeguard children from child sexual exploitation and abuse. The £1 billion additional funding for social care is in addition to maintaining £2.5 billion of existing social care grants.
HM Treasury will publish a full distributional analysis of this Spending Round alongside the next Budget, which will also capture the impact of the Budget’s other relevant announcements.The government remains committed to championing equality and working with people inside and outside government to help make Britain a place where everyone can succeed without facing discrimination. For instance:funding for adult social care will benefit the elderly, who account for two thirds of clients of these services;children and young people are the main direct beneficiaries of the significant increases to schools and 16-18 further education spending;younger people, who are over-represented on community sentences and suspended sentences compared to the general population, will likely benefit from the additional funding for the probation system which will give them greater access to rehabilitative interventions and reduce the likelihood of them reoffending.Decisions made in this Spending Round have considered the possible impact on people with a disability. On 25 October the Chancellor wrote to the Treasury … This Spending Round sets out the government’s spending plans for 2020-21.