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<p>Local councils are responsible for allocating funding to youth services in line
with local need and this includes workforce development. The government, in partnership
with the Big Lottery Fund, has invested £40 million through the Youth Investment Fund
to expand and build the sustainability of local voluntary, community and social enterprise
delivered youth services. Many grant recipients will spend part of their grant on
workforce development. The Department for Education funds several central training
programmes for child and family social workers including, for example, the Assessed
and Supported Year in Employment for newly qualified social workers. Separately, many
of the projects funded through the Department’s Children’s Social Care Innovation
Programme and Partners in Practice (PiP) programme include training and professional
development of social workers. Expenditure in each of the last five years and budget
for the current financial year is shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Policy
Area</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Expenditure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Budget</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£m)</p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social
Work Reform</p></td><td><p>14.9</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td><td><p>30.2</p></td><td><p>34.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Innovation
Programme & PiPs</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>29.7</p></td><td><p>73.0</p></td><td><p>51.5</p></td><td><p>43.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14.9
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>44.7 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91.3 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>81.7
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>78.6 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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