Tracking Welfare Reform: Local Welfare Provision – one year on
Nine months after the localisation of funding for local welfare provision, the government announced that it intends to scrap the grant that makes the schemes possible.
This announcement came in advance of a planned review of localised schemes being carried out.
In many cases London boroughs are reporting that they will be unable to continue to provide a local welfare scheme once the dedicated grant ceases.
In its report, Tracking Welfare Reform: Local Welfare Provision – one year on , London Councils is calling on the Department of Work and Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government to think again about abolishing the local welfare provision grant.
Find out more at http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/policylobbying/welfarereforms/resources/welfareprovision.htm