Funding for Sure Start Children바카라 사이트™s Centres
How Sure Start centres are funded, how much they receive and how these funds can be used.
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- Date requested: 22 January 2013
- Date responded: 11 February 2013
Request
How and under what/whose authority Sure Start Children바카라 사이트™s Centres are funded; the amount/s of such funding; through what channels they are funded; and under what government criteria/ground rules are such funds legally permitted to be used/disbursed?
Response
The department recognises that there바카라 사이트™s an on-going cost associated with children바카라 사이트™s centres provision, and has therefore made sure that there is sufficient funding within the to maintain adequate provision. The EIG is an unringfenced funding stream that is paid to local authorities under section 31 of the Local 바카라 사이트 Act 2003. It replaced a number of centrally directed grants supporting services for children, young people and families. The EIG was created as part of the Spending Review 2010 and the only condition of grant is that it is spent lawfully. The total amount of funding in the EIG for 2012 to 2013 is £2,365 million.
Local authorities have the freedom to determine how to fund their networks of children바카라 사이트™s centres to best meet local needs and priorities and statutory duties. Sufficient children바카라 사이트™s centre provision is a statutory duty on local authorities under section 5A of the Childcare Act 2006, as amended by section 198 of the .
Local authorities are required to report expenditure (regardless of the funding source). Section 251 returns 바카라 사이트“ which report local authorities바카라 사이트™ budgets and expenditure 바카라 사이트“ show that £1.1 billion was spent on children바카라 사이트™s centres in 2011 to 2012. Information about and the is available online.
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From 2013 to 2014, the EIG will form part of the new local government .