Only 140m has been allocated for next year and 110m for the year after.
Programmes will still be required to spend 25 per cent of their budgets on youth offending services but the 10 per cent top-up for achieving this target has been axed.
The decisions follow a meeting of ministers on 28 January to discuss the future of the Children's Fund (News, 21 January). Fund managers are now being notified of the cuts.
Steve Delaney, programme director of Kent Children's Fund, said: "The Children, Young People and Families Unit said it was aware at the beginning of the programme that they had over-profiled the Children's Fund budget on the expectation that programmes would underspend. They have been taken aback to find we are all nearly up to the budget now."
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