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<p>Preventative services can cover a wide range of areas, including adult and children’s
social care, public health, crime, and homelessness. The Government has continually
given local authorities more powers and flexibility, so they can target local services
more effectively, because local authorities are best placed to determine how to deliver
services in the light of local circumstances and available resources. Indeed, expenditure
on homelessness prevention has for example increased by 83% between 2010 and 2015.</p><p>
</p><p>Over the current spending review period, local government income sources like
council tax receipts and business rates are forecast to increase. Overall, local government
spending spending is forecast to be broadly flat in cash terms. Within this:</p><ul><li><p>Homelessness
prevention funding for local authorities through the local government finance settlement
is protected totalling £315 million by 2019/20.</p></li><li><p>Funding for Disabled
Facilities Grant has doubled to over £500 million by 2019-20, which would fund around
85,000 home adaptations that year. We expect this to prevent 8,500 people from needing
to go into a care home in 2019-20.</p></li><li><p>New measures announced at the spending
review will mean a further £3.5bn for social care by the end of the Parliament.</p></li><li><p>Total
local government spending continues to include over £1bn each year for early intervention.</p><p>
</p><p>The Government is also continuing to invest in key initiatives for children,
including the Healthy Child and Troubled Families programmes. The latter has so far
helped turn around the lives of over 100,000 of the hardest to reach families and
will work with up to 400,000 more during this Parliament.</p></li></ul>
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