Last week, ministers revealed the grants that will no longer be protected, as they try to help local authorities prioritise spending. A number of key grants for children and young people's services are now vulnerable to local decision-making.
These include £94.1m allocated to Think Family projects, the remaining £40.8m of the youth opportunity fund and the remaining £75m of the £235m dedicated to new and refurbished play facilities by the previous government. The £21m common assessment framework grant and the £3.9m grant for Challenge and Support projects, which help fund youth offending prevention projects, are also open to cuts.
The Think Family grant exists to develop joined-up approaches to supporting families with complex needs. It provided more than £40m of funding for the previous government's family intervention projects (FIPs).
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