Councils Urge Government to Reconsider Scrapping Local Welfare Assistance Fund

Support for vulnerable people in crisis will either have to be scaled back or scrapped completely in almost three-quarters of council areas from next April when government stops funding for Local Welfare Assistance schemes. A survey of local authorities suggests councils will hugely struggle to maintain current levels of help for vulnerable people when government scraps the £347 million Local Welfare Assistance fund next year. The ending of government funding for councils' emergency support schemes comes on top of a 40 per cent reduction in local government funding over the course of this Parliament. Read more on the LGA website.