CYP Now - Trends in Children's and Young People's Services Expenditure in England

Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Huddersfield set out to analyse spending on children's services by 150 local authorities between 2010 and 2015, looking in particular at how spending varied between poor and affluent areas.

Authors Calum Webb and Paul Bywaters
Published by Local Government Studies, February 2018

SUMMARY

For their paper titled Austerity, Rationing And Inequity: Trends in Children's and Young People's Services Expenditure in England Between 2010 And 2015, they analysed figures from the Section 251 returns, which councils are obliged to provide to the Department for Education. They grouped spending into three categories: looked-after children expenditure; safeguarding expenditure; and residual expenditure on wider children's services such as children's centres and family support. All figures were adjusted to 2015/16 prices for comparison purposes. Indices of Multiple Deprivation scores for 2015 were used to classify local authorities as affluent or deprived. The study excluded the City of London and the Isles of Scilly.

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