More money, more problems? Addressing the funding conditions required for rights-based child welfare services in England (original) (raw)
Webb, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-7521-2110(2022)More money, more problems? Addressing the funding conditions required for rights-based child welfare services in England. Societies, 12 (1). 9. ISSN: 2075-4698
Abstract
Policymakers and academics continue to debate the criteria used in formulas to allocate funding to children’s services, but few studies have considered how well the results of these formulas align with rights-based entitlements and commitments after implementation. This research measured correspondence between local authority spending per child and levels of income deprivation, special educational needs, and child development from 2011–2019 to assess the extent to which funding matches local authorities’ statutory responsibilities to provide support to children ‘in need’ under the Children Act 1989. There was weak and worsening correspondence between funding and needs, especially for preventative services.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Authors/Creators: | Webb, C.  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7521-2110 |
| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Children Act; child abuse and neglect; state expenditure; local authority variation; austerity |
| Dates: | Accepted: 21 December 2021Published (online): 6 January 2022Published: February 2022 |
| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
| Funding Information: | FunderGrant numberBRITISH ACADEMY (THE)PF21\210024 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2022 11:51 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 11:57 |
| Published Version: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/12/1/9 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | MDPI AG |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.3390/soc12010009 |
| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182139 |