The body, which is responsible for helping councils improve their children's services and implementing government policies, received £10.5m from the Department for Education (DfE) in 2011/12 and £8m in 2012/13.
But the board has now been told that it will not be funded in the current financial year.
A DfE spokesman said it was always intended that support for the board would be “time-limited” and that, in the longer term, “sector-led improvement should mean ‘sector-funded’”.
The board’s director, Colin Hilton, warned that the move risks jeopardising work to improve local authority performance on adoption, sexual exploitation and learning from child abuse cases.
“We knew this funding was always going to be time-limited, but this announcement comes as a complete shock when we are already a week into the new financial year,” he said.
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