Overspend on children's social care as a proportion of budget, by local authority, 2022/23 and 2023/24

A scatter plot from the Institute for Government showing overspend on children's social care as a proportion of budget, by local authority, 2022/23 and 2023/24, where most local authorities overspent their budgets in both years, and those who had high overspends in 2022/23 tended to also have high overspends in 2023/24.

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Source: Institute for Government analysis of DfE, 'LA and school expenditure’, 2022/23–2023/24 and DfE, 'Planned LA and school expenditure', 2022/23–2023/24.Notes: Figures are calculated from net (planned/current) expenditure on children in care, safeguarding and family support services. Analysis covers England only. The Isles of Scilly, City of London and Rutland are excluded.Get the dataEmbed Download image

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