The Counting the Cuts survey questioned 72 Children England member organisations including Barnardo’s, The Children’s Society and the NSPCC.
Seventy-one per cent of organisations said they would experience some kind of cut in income for 2011/12 with more than a quarter of respondents experiencing cuts of more than 25 per cent.
Children’s centres and Sure Start services, youth work, family support and play services were reported by charities as being the areas hardest hit by cuts.
Helen Dent, chief executive of Family Action and a Children England trustee, said: "In our experience it is the truly preventive work with families and children which is being lost. This is because with the front-loading of cuts commissioners have been sorely tested to cut strategically and in many cases they have had no choice but to focus resources on the families and children at the highest immediate risk.
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