Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, told a national policy conference organised by 4Children that he thought Children's Fund money was ending too soon.
"I fear that we haven't been supporting preventative services for long enough for people to be convinced that they work," he added. "I fear the preventative work we have seen may be at risk." The Children's Fund budget has been gradually reduced with the expectation that specialist preventative services will be mainstreamed into local children's trusts.
But one Children's Fund manager told Children Now that he feared his local authority would not pick up the costs and use pooled funding for preventative work because results proving the benefits were not yet concrete enough.
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