Crisis and Resilience Fund
The Crisis and Resilience Fund presents a direct opportunity to channel financial support to care workers in your area. CWC can administer a CRF-funded care workforce grant scheme on your behalf. You set the eligibility criteria and funding levels, and we handle delivery end to end. This includes rapid, cash-first payments with monitoring and outcomes reporting aligned to your assurance requirements.
Care workers are a critical cohort within the CRF’s intended reach. Financial pressures -transport, childcare, housing, essential living costs – can rapidly undermine their ability to stay in work. Early intervention through a targeted grant scheme helps prevent escalation, reduce agency reliance in your local workforce, and protect continuity of care.
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England’s adult social care sector has a significant staff turnover every year. Behind each departure is a cost to continuity of care, to the people who rely on it, and to councils already managing stretched commissioning budgets.
The Care Workers’ Charity is the only dedicated charity for the paid care workforce in England. We work with local authorities to deliver targeted, practical support that helps keep care workers in post – before pressures become crises.
What we offer
Crisis and Resilience Fund
The Crisis and Resilience Fund presents a direct opportunity to channel financial support to care workers in your area. CWC can administer a CRF-funded care workforce grant scheme on your behalf. You set the eligibility criteria and funding levels, and we handle delivery end to end. This includes rapid, cash-first payments with monitoring and outcomes reporting aligned to your assurance requirements.
Care workers are a critical cohort within the CRF’s intended reach. Financial pressures -transport, childcare, housing, essential living costs – can rapidly undermine their ability to stay in work. Early intervention through a targeted grant scheme helps prevent escalation, reduce agency reliance in your local workforce, and protect continuity of care.
Read More here: LA Proposal – Crisis and Resilience Fund
Commissioned grant partnerships
We work with local authorities to design and deliver grant schemes that fit local workforce priorities, with CWC handling applications, eligibility verification, payments and reporting, and councils retaining control over criteria and funding levels.
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If you’d like to find out what a partnership could look like for your area, we’d welcome a conversation. There’s no commitment involved — just a chance to understand your workforce picture and explore whether our offer is a good fit.
Our current partnerships illustrate the range:
Oxfordshire County Council: now in its third year, this partnership has delivered over 520 grants totalling more than £250,000 to care workers facing financial crisis. A New Starter Grants strand supports workers in their first three months, covering day-one costs like transport, childcare and training to drive recruitment as well as retention.
Norfolk County Council: International Recruitment East: a regional programme spanning 12 local authorities, providing targeted support for internationally recruited workers affected by provider licence revocations. Grants cover visa reimbursements and work expenses to enable immediate re-employment.
Bradford Council and Solihull Council: previous partnerships demonstrating our ability to flex delivery to different local contexts and commissioning arrangements.
Ringfenced council funding goes directly to workers; CWC charges an administration fee proportionate to scheme scale.