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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Workforce Retention: Before Pressures become Crises
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.
Worker resilience
A care worker facing a car breakdown, missed shift or housing shock receives a fast, direct grant and stays in post.
Package resilience
The person drawing on care keeps continuity with their regular worker. Short-term disruption doesn't crystallise into a longer, costlier package.
System resilience
Provider staffing holds. Colleagues absorb fewer extra shifts. Last-minute emergency commissioning is avoided. The cost of retention stays far below the cost of replacement.
A delivery model with a track record
We have been running commissioned grant partnerships with local authorities since 2021. Each scheme has been shaped to the council’s priorities, from rapid crisis response to new starter retention to regional support for internationally recruited workers. The numbers below are the cumulative picture across our active and previous partnerships.
From your rules, to delivery, to outcomes you can report on
A three-step partnership built around your council's discretion. Nothing is delivered until you have signed off the framework.
You set the rules
Your council retains full discretion over scheme design. Eligibility, grant types, target cohorts and reporting framework are all set by you.
- Eligibility criteria: care role types, employment status, residency, income thresholds
- Grant types and amounts: crisis, new starter, visa support, or new categories shaped to your area
- Target cohorts: new starters, international recruits, domiciliary, or whole-workforce
- Scale: single authority, or regional model across multiple councils
CWC delivers
End-to-end administration against your rules. The work does not land on council teams. Your capacity goes into scheme design; ours goes into running it.
- Applications and eligibility verification
- Cash-first payments direct to applicants' bank accounts
- "No wrong door" referrals to your debt advice, benefits and housing services
- Audit-ready governance, public-funds compliant
You see the outcomes
Reporting framed to your assurance and audit needs, ready for CRF outcome reviews and DASS-level reporting without retrofitting.
- Grant volumes, spend and processing times
- Cohort breakdowns aligned to your priorities
- Mapped to CRF outcomes: crisis support, financial resilience, local landscape
- Outputs you can put straight into council and DASS reporting