Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what new models of delivering children's services his Department is considering in the course of its Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods Programme; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has invited local authorities to submit bids for the Delivering Differently in Neighbourhoods Fund across the range of local government services. The deadline for expressions of interest was 15 December and we are now in the process of assessing these and selecting successful projects. Until that process is completed, we are unable to set out the specific models that we will be supporting.