Families First Partnership Programme Transformation (Revenue) Grant (2025-26): 31/7969
Published 11 September 2025
Applies to England
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The Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution (“the Minister”), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:
Citation
1. This determination may be cited as the Families First Partnership Programme Transformation (Revenue) Grant (2025/26): 31/7969
Purpose of the grant
2. This is a one-off grant, ringfenced for direct investment in additional transformation activity to support local areas to implement the Family Help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision making reforms through the Families First Partnership programme.
3. This grant should be used alongside the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant, and the Children and Families Grant, both ringfenced for children’s social care prevention investment.
Determination
4. The Minister determines the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid as set out in Annex A of this determination.
5. Former Families First for Children Pathfinder councils will not receive funding through this grant. These local authorities were previously funded by the Department for Education to undertake co-design of reforms. As such, they are further ahead of with their transformation and service delivery as they started the reforms ahead of national rollout.
6. The allocations for Rutland, City of London and Isles of Scilly will match their respective allocations for the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant. The rest of the available funding will be distributed equally to each of the remaining social care authorities (excluding the ten pathfinder councils).
7. The grant will be paid in a single lump sum.
Grant Conditions
8. Pursuant to section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003, the Minister determines that the grant will be paid subject to the conditions in Annex B.
Treasury Consent
9. Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Minister obtained the consent of the Treasury.
Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution.
Suzanne Kochanowski, Deputy Director Care, Reform and Grants
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government
September 2025
Annex A: Families First Partnership Programme Transformation (Revenue) Grant allocations to local authorities 2025-26
Authorities to which grant is to be paid:
| Local authority | Allocation £ |
|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 127,742 |
| Barnet | 127,742 |
| Barnsley | 127,742 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 127,742 |
| Bedford | 127,742 |
| Bexley | 127,742 |
| Birmingham | 127,742 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 127,742 |
| Blackpool | 127,742 |
| Bolton | 127,742 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 127,742 |
| Bracknell Forest | 127,742 |
| Bradford | 127,742 |
| Brent | 127,742 |
| Brighton and Hove | 127,742 |
| Bristol | 127,742 |
| Bromley | 127,742 |
| Buckinghamshire Council | 127,742 |
| Bury | 127,742 |
| Calderdale | 127,742 |
| Cambridgeshire | 127,742 |
| Camden | 127,742 |
| Central Bedfordshire | 127,742 |
| Cheshire East | 127,742 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 127,742 |
| City of London | 30,000 |
| Cornwall | 127,742 |
| Coventry | 127,742 |
| Croydon | 127,742 |
| Cumberland | 127,742 |
| Darlington | 127,742 |
| Derby | 127,742 |
| Derbyshire | 127,742 |
| Devon | 127,742 |
| Doncaster | 127,742 |
| Dudley | 127,742 |
| Durham | 127,742 |
| Ealing | 127,742 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 127,742 |
| East Sussex | 127,742 |
| Enfield | 127,742 |
| Essex | 127,742 |
| Gateshead | 127,742 |
| Gloucestershire | 127,742 |
| Greenwich | 127,742 |
| Hackney | 127,742 |
| Halton | 127,742 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 127,742 |
| Hampshire | 127,742 |
| Haringey | 127,742 |
| Harrow | 127,742 |
| Hartlepool | 127,742 |
| Havering | 127,742 |
| Herefordshire | 127,742 |
| Hertfordshire | 127,742 |
| Hillingdon | 127,742 |
| Hounslow | 127,742 |
| Isle of Wight | 127,742 |
| Isles of Scilly | 30,000 |
| Islington | 127,742 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 127,742 |
| Kent | 127,742 |
| Kingston upon Hull | 127,742 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 127,742 |
| Kirklees | 127,742 |
| Knowsley | 127,742 |
| Lambeth | 127,742 |
| Lancashire | 127,742 |
| Leeds | 127,742 |
| Leicester | 127,742 |
| Leicestershire | 127,742 |
| Liverpool | 127,742 |
| Manchester | 127,742 |
| Medway | 127,742 |
| Merton | 127,742 |
| Middlesbrough | 127,742 |
| Milton Keynes | 127,742 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 127,742 |
| Newham | 127,742 |
| Norfolk | 127,742 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 127,742 |
| North Lincolnshire | 127,742 |
| North Northamptonshire | 127,742 |
| North Somerset | 127,742 |
| North Tyneside | 127,742 |
| North Yorkshire | 127,742 |
| Northumberland | 127,742 |
| Nottingham | 127,742 |
| Nottinghamshire | 127,742 |
| Oldham | 127,742 |
| Oxfordshire | 127,742 |
| Peterborough | 127,742 |
| Plymouth | 127,742 |
| Portsmouth | 127,742 |
| Reading | 127,742 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 127,742 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 127,742 |
| Rochdale | 127,742 |
| Rotherham | 127,742 |
| Rutland | 56,093 |
| Salford | 127,742 |
| Sandwell | 127,742 |
| Sefton | 127,742 |
| Sheffield | 127,742 |
| Shropshire | 127,742 |
| Slough | 127,742 |
| Solihull | 127,742 |
| Somerset | 127,742 |
| South Gloucestershire | 127,742 |
| South Tyneside | 127,742 |
| Southampton | 127,742 |
| Southend-on-Sea | 127,742 |
| Southwark | 127,742 |
| St. Helens | 127,742 |
| Staffordshire | 127,742 |
| Stockport | 127,742 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 127,742 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 127,742 |
| Suffolk | 127,742 |
| Sunderland | 127,742 |
| Surrey | 127,742 |
| Sutton | 127,742 |
| Swindon | 127,742 |
| Tameside | 127,742 |
| Telford and Wrekin | 127,742 |
| Thurrock | 127,742 |
| Torbay | 127,742 |
| Tower Hamlets | 127,742 |
| Trafford | 127,742 |
| Wakefield | 127,742 |
| Waltham Forest | 127,742 |
| Wandsworth | 127,742 |
| West Berkshire | 127,742 |
| West Northamptonshire | 127,742 |
| West Sussex | 127,742 |
| Westminster | 127,742 |
| Westmorland and Furness | 127,742 |
| Wigan | 127,742 |
| Wiltshire | 127,742 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 127,742 |
| Wokingham | 127,742 |
| Worcestershire | 127,742 |
| York | 127,742 |
| Total England | 18,000,000 |
Allocations may not sum to exact totals due to rounding.
Annex B: Grant Conditions
1. This grant is ringfenced for direct investment in additional transformation activity for the Families First Partnership programme. This grant should be used alongside the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant, and the Children and Families Grant, both ringfenced for children’s social care prevention investment.
2. Recipient authorities should spend their allocation of this grant on the transformation activities outlined in the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant. Recipient authorities should refer to the grant determination for the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant, specifically Annex B: Grant Conditions for further guidance, noting in particular paragraphs on co-design (8), working with partners (9) and expectations for transformation and service design spend (19-26). Learning on transformation activity from the Families First for Children Pathfinder areas can be found in the How to Guides on the Families First Partnership Knowledge Hub.
3. Recipient authorities must comply with the reporting requirements set out in the Children’s Social Care Prevention Grant. Requirements, including programme data and the delivery plan, were published in the Support Offer and Monitoring Approach document on 1 May 2025 on the Families First Partnership Knowledge Hub.