Local authorities will be responsible for commissioning public health services for children and young people from April, covering teenage pregnancy, obesity and mental health, among a range of issues.
To fund this provision, the government has transferred £2.6bn from the NHS budget to local authorities for 2013/14, representing a 19 per cent increase on the £2.2bn that ministers originally proposed to give councils in February last year.
Professionals welcomed the overall increase in the public health budget. But analysis of the individual allocations reveals that some areas with higher levels of deprivation have fared worse than their more affluent counterparts. Taken together, the 10 least deprived authorities have received an above average boost to their funding.
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