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<p>The department has launched a £12 million Family Hubs Transformation Fund (Transformation
Fund 1) to support at least 12 local authorities in England to move to a family hub
model of service delivery and open family hubs by March 2024. The application window
closed in December 2021 and we received 84 bids from upper-tier local authorities.
We expect a public announcement on the first wave of successful local authorities
in the coming weeks, following a cross government assessment process to review the
bids.</p><p>In October 2021, as part of the Autumn Budget, the government announced
£301.75 million to transform Start for Life and Family Hub services in 75 upper-tier
local authorities across England (Transformation Fund 2). The 75 eligible local authorities
were announced on the 2 April 2022. Local authorities have been pre-selected in rank
order using ‘Income Deprivation Affecting Children Indices – Average Rank’, ensuring
a minimum of 25% of local authorities, from each rural urban classification, have
been pre-selected. More information on this methodology can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-hubs-and-start-for-life-package-methodology-for-pre-selecting-local-authorities"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-hubs-and-start-for-life-package-methodology-for-pre-selecting-local-authorities</a>.</p>
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