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Research and analysis

Supporting Families spend evaluation: final report

Local spending of funding for the Supporting Families programme between 2022 and 2025.

Applies to England

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It funded whole family, multi-agency and early support for families. It received an additional £200 million for programme delivery until March 2025, taking the overall funding to £696 million.

There was significant variation in local spending patterns, but the report finds that, between 2022 and 2025, funding was primarily used to:

  • support staffing
  • invest in:
    • training
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    • commissioned specialist services

The study highlights the challenges in:

  • tracking expenditure where Supporting Families funding was combined with that from other sources
  • assessing the impact of additional investment, owing to the available data being insufficient

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Published 25 June 2026

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