The Local Government Association (LGA) has been publicly decrying a £2bn funding gap; children's services leaders have spoken out forcefully about the role of child poverty in the rising levels of need; the Disabled Children's Partnership has been campaigning on the largely invisible crisis facing services and support for disabled children and their families; and at Children England we've been calling for a Children Act funding formula to avert the dire 2020 cliff-edge for council finances. But whatever our particular asks, all sector voices have shared a common core message - money matters and there's just not enough of it. In the words of the LGA: "We cannot carry on like this."
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