First announced in October's spending review, the community budgets were hailed by Chancellor George Osborne as a way of focusing on family intervention by "enabling a more flexible and integrated approach to delivering the help these families need".
The 16 areas (28 authorities) chosen to test the budgets are now finalising plans to introduce the budgets at the start of the coming financial year.
In a letter from the Treasury to the pilot areas, it was suggested that central government funding streams that could be used in community budgets include discretionary funding from the Work Programme, funding for youth offending teams, primary care trust funds and the early intervention grant.
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