One delegate asked the minister to confirm that funding for preventative work, such as that resourced through the Children's Fund, would be ring-fenced in pooled budgets and not diverted into "heavy-end" activities such as child protection.
Hodge has yet to answer, but in her online presentation said: "Often, preventative initiatives in children's services fizzle out when funding stops. We must sustain the preventative approach."
She pledged to provide "stability and continuity" when allocations for the 2005/06 Children's Fund are confirmed in August, when guidance on the mainstreaming of the Children's Fund to children's trusts is published.
- www.ne-cf.org/conferences/
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