Current status: Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 28 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25979 by Natalie Don on 14 March 2024, how (a) many families have received support and (b) much Whole Family Wellbeing Funding has been spent to date, broken down by local authority area.
Whole Family Wellbeing Funding continues to be provided by the Scottish Government to deliver transformational change to improve holistic family support so that families get the right support, in the right way and at the right time. By the end of this financial year the Scottish Government expects to have invested over £110m across financial years 2022-23 - 2024-25. This includes £96m provided directly to Children's Service Planning Partnerships (through the General Revenue Grant) to build local service capacity and transform family support services at the local level. CSPPs have responsibility for deciding how to spend their allocation and do so in a variety of ways in line with set criteria. We do not hold figures of how many families have received support via WFWF funded activity, but examples of how CSPPs are spending their allocations can be found in our Evaluation of year 1 activity which was published on 31 January 2024 (https://www.gov.scot/publications/whole-family-wellbeing-funding-wfwf-year-1-process-evaluation-final-report/) and CSPP annual reports published at a local level.
Despite the tight fiscal position, we have once again protected our £50m investment for 2025-26. This investment will ensure that CSPP allocations will remain the same as 2024-25 protecting the good work already being delivered. The following table provides a breakdown of the distribution to date of funding per Local Authority. The allocations for 2025-26 will be published in due course.
Local Authority | 2022-23 Allocation (£m) | 2023-24 Allocation (£m) | 2024-25 Allocation (£m) |
Aberdeen City | 1.025 | 1.029 | 1.028 |
Aberdeenshire | 1.464 | 1.467 | 1.463 |
Angus | 0.657 | 0.654 | 0.647 |
Argyll and Bute | 0.439 | 0.438 | 0.422 |
City of Edinburgh | 2.199 | 2.201 | 2.234 |
Clackmannanshire | 0.337 | 0.337 | 0.341 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 0.917 | 0.917 | 0.902 |
Dundee City | 0.894 | 0.893 | 0.954 |
East Ayrshire | 0.832 | 0.833 | 0.825 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0.471 | 0.473 | 0.478 |
East Lothian | 0.579 | 0.583 | 0.590 |
East Renfrewshire | 0.492 | 0.495 | 0.484 |
Falkirk | 0.923 | 0.921 | 0.937 |
Fife | 2.289 | 2.288 | 2.290 |
Glasgow City | 4.666 | 4.663 | 4.594 |
Highland | 1.420 | 1.417 | 1.353 |
Inverclyde | 0.423 | 0.421 | 0.479 |
Midlothian | 0.535 | 0.540 | 0.565 |
Moray | 0.546 | 0.545 | 0.524 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 0.161 | 0.159 | 0.156 |
North Ayrshire | 0.959 | 0.954 | 0.954 |
North Lanarkshire | 2.351 | 2.346 | 2.281 |
Orkney Islands | 0.132 | 0.133 | 0.129 |
Perth and Kinross | 0.805 | 0.806 | 0.811 |
Renfrewshire | 0.988 | 0.986 | 1.009 |
Scottish Borders | 0.668 | 0.669 | 0.661 |
Shetland Islands | 0.158 | 0.157 | 0.146 |
South Ayrshire | 0.604 | 0.603 | 0.608 |
South Lanarkshire | 1.827 | 1.835 | 1.868 |
Stirling | 0.495 | 0.493 | 0.476 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0.604 | 0.602 | 0.621 |
West Lothian | 1.140 | 1.143 | 1.150 |
Variations in allocations are due to data refreshes to reflect population movement.
In addition, East Lothian received £1863.00 2022-23 and £164.5k in 2023-24 for collaborative planning support and provide local learning that can be shared nationally.