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<p>The government is committed to championing the Family Hub model. Between 2019 and
2021 we announced £39.5 million in support of this commitment, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>In
the North West region, funding Bolton, Salford, Stockport, and Warrington to progress
work on family hubs, through the Children’s Social Care COVID-19 Regional Recovery
and Building Back Better Fund, which runs to the end of the 2021/22 financial year.</li></ul><ul><li>A
£12 million Family Hubs Transformation Fund which will support at least 12 local authorities
in England to transform to a family hub model of service delivery. Local authorities
were invited to apply for up to £1 million to pay for the change process through both
programme and capital funding. The deadline to apply has now passed, and we are currently
reviewing applications.</li></ul><p> </p><p>At the Budget on 21 November 2021, the
government announced a further £82 million to create a network of family hubs. This
is part of a wider £300 million package to transform services for parents, carers,
babies, and children in half of council areas across England.</p><p> </p><p>The Department
for Education and Department for Health and Social Care are working to determine the
best approach for selecting local authorities and distributing the funding. We will set
out more detail on this programme in due course.</p><p> </p>
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