Cheryl Eastwood, NCH's director of children's services in the Northwest, said the allocation would ensure that key services for most of the charity's programmes would continue to run.
Flexibility over how money can be used would also help manage the transition of the programme into mainstream services over the next three years.
But she said some programmes, "particularly smaller ones that commission two or three main services", would be "badly affected", and that the partnership boards concerned would have to make some "painful decisions".
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