CURRENT FUNDING STREAM
How the RPB is funded
Our Region will receive the following funding in 2026-27:
Regional Integration Fund: £19,290,669
Innovation Working at Scale: £250,000
Unpaid Carers Short Breaks Fund: £171,943
Capital Revenue:£450,000
The Regional Partnership Board (RPB) is responsible for the overall delivery of these funding streams, supporting a variety of delivery programmes to improve services and outcomes for people. The Regional Partnership Board delegates oversight to the Strategic Leadership Group (SLG). The Director of Health and Social Care Integration is the senior officer with responsibility for effective management of all funding streams.
Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) lead the work for our partnership and are responsible for budget and performance management of each funding stream. They are accountable to the RPB through the agreed governance structures for the funding and programme delivery.
The Regional Integration Fund (RIF) is our largest revenue funding scheme; a key lever to drive change and transformation across the health and social care system. Launched in 2022, the fund has a five-year lifespan and aims to promote a whole system approach to health and social care, providing effective and seamless service experiences for key population groups living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan:
- Children and young people with complex needs including mental health issues
- People with lived experience of Learning Disabilities
- People living with neurodiversity
- Older people, including those with Dementia
- Unpaid Carers
Our region receives £19,290,669 each year which it allocates to key priority areas:
(emPOWER, Complex Health and Learning Disability)
(Learning Disabilities, Unpaid Carers, Neurodiversity)
(ICCS, Dementia)
(Commissioning, Digital Care Region)
Capital funding streams
The region also receives capital investment via 2 funding streams:
The Health and Social Care Integration and Rebalancing Capital Fund (IRCF) is a programme set up to directly support the Programme for Government (PfG) commitments of developing 50 integrated health and social care hubs and to support rebalancing the residential care market including eliminating profit from the care of children looked after.
The Housing with Care Fund supports investment into three main areas: housing with care, intermediate care facilities, and smaller-scale projects such as community-led initiatives and home adaptations.
Further information about the Regional Integration fund
Our Priorities
DECHRAU’N DDA
STARTING WELL
We want every child in Cardiff and Vale to have the opportunity to thrive. Our work focuses on children in vulnerable situations and the services that support them.
HENEIDDIO’N DDA
AGEING WELL
We know how hard it can be to find help when people need it the most. We want to make sure there is community support to help people stay as healthy as possible so they can carry on doing the things that matter most to them.
BYW’N DDA
LIVING WELL
As a Partnership we have worked together with people with a learning disability, their families, carers and the third and independent sector to produce a clear direction for the planning and delivery of adult learning disability services across the region over the next five years.
Case Studies
Alison Law
Improvement and Development Manager, Joint Commissioning
- Project management across the partnership to enable the alignment and joint commissioning of services, which includes shaping the market, regional commissioning strategies, contracting and quality assurance.
- Programme manager for ICF Capital fund