For children's services, 2008 looks set to be turbulent. Over the past seven years, community-based voluntary bodies across the country have taken a lead role in providing preventive services for disadvantaged children thanks largely to grants from the multi-million pound Children's Fund.
But from April this year, the fund will effectively come to an end as it is absorbed into mainstream local authority budgets. There has been plenty of affirmation from central and local government that they want to see this preventive approach to children's services continue and that the natural place for such services is in the voluntary sector. However, there are fears the reality will prove otherwise and that the progress of the past seven years could begin to unravel.
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