Report by: The Children's Society (February 2019)
Ahead of the expected 2019 Spending Review, this report provides an overview of the latest trends in funding and spending on children and young people's services, illustrating the scale of the challenges facing local authorities. This report has found that between 2010/11 and 2017/18 funding available for local authority children and young people's services has fallen by 29 per cent, while local authority spending on such services has fallen by 16 per cent. There has also been a shift from spending on early intervention services such as children's centres to late intervention services such as children in care.
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