Spending Round delivers extra funds for children and young people's services
Joanne Parkes
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Councils will have access to £1.5bn extra for social care from next year, the Chancellor has announced in today's Spending Round, but he provided no detail on cash for children's services.
The news was included in Sajid Javid's £13.8bn public spending package for 2020/21, which also features:
- An additional £66m for early years education, to boost the hourly rate paid to providers of the 30 hours childcare offer
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to develop a new youth investment fund to build and refurbish youth centres and deliver services for young people
- Department for Education to receive £700m for special educational needs, revealed as part of a multi-billion package for education earlier this week
- Home Office to get £30m to tackle online child sexual exploitation
The fast-tracked Spending Round sets departmental budgets for 2020/21.
A delayed full multi-year Spending Review is now due to take place in 2020.
"Extra funds take the real increase in day-to-day spending to £13.8bn, or 4.1%. That means I'm delivering the fastest increase in day-to-day spending for 15 years." @SajidJavid #SpendingRound pic.twitter.com/6ILw8TduHl
— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) September 4, 2019
"Councils will have access to new funding of £1.5bn for social care next year. Alongside the largest increase in Local Government spending power since 2010, and on top of the existing £2.5bn of social care grants." #SpendingRound pic.twitter.com/RD1UhaJrh6
— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) September 4, 2019
The Association of Directors of Children's Services tweeted its disappointment that no detail was included for children's services.
Chancellor: "Councils will have access to an additional £1.5 billion for social care" plus other increases in #localgov funding. No detail on children/adults split on new funding ??
— Updates from ADCS (@ADCStweets) September 4, 2019
