The manifestos that are published fail to shed much light on what could lie ahead for children’s services funding when the result is settled, but to date any sustained focus on policy detail is most notable for its absence from our mainstream media. I certainly hope that the needs, interests, plight and voices of children, young people and families will come into greater focus in the last weeks of the campaign.
The woefully late Spending Review (that wasn’t really a spending review at all in the end) delivered crumbs of additional money for child and adult social care, but nowhere near enough to touch the sides of the chronic funding gap for either. Central government resorted again to “allowing” councils to raise council taxes even more for social care, while describing it as an increased “investment” on their part, rather than a regressive tax increase that hit the poorest people and communities hardest.
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