questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of targeting the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant at (a) Halton Council and (b) other areas that are high on the deprivation index.
answerText: The Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant will be distributed using an interim needs-based formula, which allocates funding according to estimated need for children’s social care services. The department knows that deprivation is an important driver of ...
heading: Social Services: Finance