Families: Disadvantaged
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which services she has distributed £500m to Family Help funding to.
Answered by Janet Daby
'Keeping children safe, helping families thrive’, published in November 2024, sets out this government’s approach to reforming the system of support for children and families, including the national rollout of Family Help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms through the Families First Partnership programme.
From April 2025, the government will make over £500 million available to local authorities to roll out the Families First Partnership programme. The funding, announced as part of the local government funding settlement (LGFS), will be allocated across all 153 local authorities in England in two grants:
- £253.5 million, previously for the Supporting Families programme, consolidated with other grants into a single Children and Families Grant.
- £270 million of additional investment in the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant.
The final LGFS for both of the grants, including grant determination letters and local authority by local authority allocations, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2025-to-2026#grant-determinations-2025-to-2026.
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