Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s statement this week did not include extra support being called for by councils to tackle escalating children’s services costs following years of funding cuts.
Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) president John Pearce said the government “has failed to take the opportunity to address significant funding challenges facing council children’s services”, which are “crumbling under the pressure of more than a decade of austerity, rising demand for help and support and inflation”.
He warns that several councils “are now effectively bankrupt, with a growing number of others dangerously close to this point” as local authorities face a £4bn funding shortfall over the next two years.
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