The Children’s Commissioner for England’s Office has recently published research carried out by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) into the levels of government spending on children between 2000 and 2020. The research which comes ahead of next year’s Spending Review, looks at budget changes affecting children over the last two decades. Commenting on the report, … Continue reading Public spending on children
Children England has put forward the case for a fair, sustainable funding mechanism for essential children’s services stating that it is too urgent and too acute to ignore: We propose the establishment of a Children Act Funding Formula, which would distribute national taxation to all authorities with duties under the Children Act 1989 according to … Continue reading The Case for a Children Act Funding Formula – Children England
Prime Minister must find consensus on health and social care The Chairs of three House of Commons Select Committees are urging the Prime Minister to reach a cross-party agreement on the future of health and social care funding in a letter published on 6th January: Letter to Prime Minister regarding health and social care, 6 January 2017 … Continue reading Prime Minister urged to find consensus on health and social care
http:// We are covering the Spending Review live from 9am. Find out what it means for #local gov https://t.co/u5pDxUMnBp pic.twitter.com/8WDwVwR9xg — LGAcomms (@LGAcomms) November 25, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsLocal Government Association (LGA) (2015) A summary 'The LGA believes the Spending Review should: Enable wider integration of social care and health services to deliver savings and improve outcomes … Continue reading Spending Review
David Jones, chair of the Independent Association of Local Safeguarding Children Board chairs, said it is an unpredictable time for children's services with the spending review looming Read more at source: Safeguarding chair’s fear for children’s services’ following spending review
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