More funding for asylum children
The Home Office has announced it will make more funding available for councils to support unaccompanied children seeking asylum, following lobbying by the LGA.
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Children’s services ‘in crisis’ warn MPs
MPs have warned that children’s services are at breaking point, and have backed the LGA’s call for a funding gap of £3.1 billion to be plugged by 2025.
Register proposed for home-schooled pupils
The Government has acted on a long-standing call by the LGA for a register of children not in school.
Drop in spending on children’s mental health
More than a third of local areas in England have reduced real-terms spending on ‘low-level’ children’s mental health services, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Government ‘must do more’ on children’s social care – MPs
The Department for Education has not done enough to make the quality or finances of children’s social care sustainable, according to MPs.
Making a change to children’s services
Earlier this year, we announced that we’d be working with six local authorities on a series of ‘change projects’ in children’s social care.
Cash for nursery schools
The Government is to give an additional £24 million to councils to help them fund maintained nursery schools in 2019/20, following campaigning by the LGA.
Health visitors ‘in decline’
Children’s health visitors have seen a significant fall in numbers and investment is urgently needed to help safeguard the future of our youngest generation, the LGA has said.
Positive results for troubled families
The Troubled Families Programme has reduced juvenile convictions, the number of adults claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, and the proportion of children going into care, according to a recent national evaluation.
Children’s social care services ‘over-spent’
New analysis by the LGA has revealed that nearly nine in 10 councils spent more than they had planned to on children’s social care in the last year.