The government is proposing to push ahead with plans, announced earlier in the year, to end central funding for local welfare assistance schemes, which are managed by local authorities, by next April. This is despite the government saying recently that it would reconsider the decision after legal action, backed by charities, was launched.
The schemes are designed to help get struggling families and young people back on their feet and prevent temporary financial crises spiralling into debt and destitution.
Proposals state that councils will be given the option of retaining their schemes by finding the money from elsewhere.
However a Local Government Association survey found that almost three quarters (73 per cent) of councils would either end or scale back their local scheme if the funding was abolished.
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