Nursery World - Analysis: Reshaping local authority services

Cuts in funding from central Government are forcing local authorities to take a different approach to their children's services and education, at a time of many other changes, writes Pauline Hoare.

Directors of children's services are grappling with budget cuts on an unprecedented scale. Where once central Government may have trimmed a few percentage points off their budgets, this time around they are facing cuts as great as 40 or 50 per cent. So far, local authorities' responses vary, and with that their chances of success in this new era of service delivery.

Encouragingly, some local authorities are working to protect their children's services, among them the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Although all short-term projects will be lost in the next financial year, most of the authority's core team and core work will continue for at least another year.

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