Published this week, the final report provides us with a pre-pandemic baseline of safeguarding activity in the year ending 31 March 2020 and, for the first time, draws in some of the regional sector-led improvement data covering the first six months of the pandemic (March – September 2020).
The funding picture is even more challenging this year. Spend on early help services has been impacted the most, with many authorities reporting that Troubled Families funding, which has only been extended till March 2022, is propping up this offer.
Nearly half of the 128 LAs responding to the study reported a decrease in funding ranging from 15 – 30 per cent, whilst others reported needing to find further annual budget savings, up to 20 per cent in some cases.
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