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Cliff edges speeding towards us

2 mins read The ADCS Blog
As I return to work this week following the optimism of the ADCS conference and the benefit of two weeks leave, my focus has returned swiftly to the perilous state of local government funding.
Pauline Turner is director of children, young people and family services at Hull City Council. Picture: Hull City Council
Pauline Turner is director of children, young people and family services at Hull City Council. Picture: Hull City Council

As we know, fourteen years of austerity has had a significant impact on huge swathes of services. Regrettably, the hardest hit areas for many of us have been our early help services.

With significantly high levels of deprivation, Hull City Council has worked hard with local political support, and that of partners, to maintain a semblance of an early help offer. On the back of austerity, Covid-19 and a cost-of-living crisis, our early help offer has been a main vehicle in supporting families and combatting reactive and expensive statutory interventions. While relying on often small pots of funding, widespread and positive differences to our families and with our community partners have been achieved.

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