Budget documents published earlier this month show that Doncaster Council will cut funding for Doncaster Children's Services Trust by £2m in 2018/19, a further £2m in 2019/20 and £500,000 in 2020/21.
In 2017/18 the council provided the trust with an annual net budget of £42.2m. But following the first nine months of the financial year the trust was predicting an overspend of £2.98m. The majority of this (£2.6m) was a result of more children being taken into care and the cost of more complex cases.
A Doncaster Council report this month described the financial position as "a potential risk to continuous performance improvement".
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