Chancellor George Osborne announced at the Spending Review last November that there would be a 3.9 per cent real-terms cut in public health funding over the next five years.
This cut came on top of £200m being taken out of local authority public health budgets in 2015/16, which was announced in last June's Budget and was widely criticised by health experts.
With councils - which since last October handle commissioning for all public health services for under-19s - beginning to finalise budgets for 2016/17, fears are rising that many will be forced to start cutting back early help to vulnerable children and families with health problems.
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