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children's services

October 16, 2020

LGA calls for reversal of cuts to early intervention funding for children’s services

Government has reduced the Early Intervention Grant by almost two-thirds, from £2.8 billion in 2010/11 to £1.1 billion in 2018/19.
May 19, 2020

Charities raise alarm over funding crisis facing children's social care

Councils can now only afford to get involved when children have reached crisis point and need costly interventions, like being taken into care.
February 5, 2020

Multi-agency report on children sexually abused within the family

Children sexually abused by family members are going unseen and unheard in too many cases, while abusers evade justice, according to a new report.
October 19, 2019

Soaring increase in child modern slavery referrals made by councils

The LGA says that the rapid increase in child referrals is further evidence of the current huge pressures on children’s services.
September 3, 2019

Children's cuts could cost election, say Conservative councillors

Around six in 10 Conservative councillors said police, health services and schools had been put under extra pressure by reduced spending on children’s services.
May 2, 2019

Children’s services at breaking point, says Local Government Committee

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee says reduced funding and ever increasing demand have left children’s services in England at breaking point.
March 5, 2019

Local Government Association responds to report on child gangs

Government funding for Youth Offending Teams has been halved from £145 million in 2010/11 to £72 million in 2017/18.
February 2, 2019

Councils 'pushed to the brink' by funding cuts , warns LGA

Between 2010 and 2020 councils will have lost almost 60p out of every £1 the Government had provided for services.
January 10, 2019

Funding for children’s care 'in country-wide crisis'

The number of looked after children continues to increase to the highest level since the 1980s, with a total of 75,420 children in the care of councils in England.
November 13, 2018

Social workers assess 1,000 children every day as being in need

Social workers are starting new cases for more than 1,000 children each day as council leaders warn children’s services will be pushed to a tipping point without further new money.