Councils have learned that they will receive cuts of as much as 20 per cent of their funding earmarked for children’s centres, short breaks for disabled children, other services for children and families, and the Government’s troubled families programme.
Councils are only now learning of the impact of the cuts as they begin to receive more details of their budgets for 2013/14.
The crux of the matter appears to be changes to the way that local authorities will be financed from next April, leading to a loss of funding for early intervention and the abolition of the Early Intervention Grant.
Under reforms set out in a ‘technical consultation’ by the Department for Communities and Local Government, the EIG will be split, so that part of its funding is rolled into the Dedicated Schools Grant – this includes funding for two-year-olds – and the remaining funding will be amalgamated with other grants.
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