Question follow-through · 28112
Social Services: Finance
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2025
Question tabled
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.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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18 Feb 2025
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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