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Whole Family Wellbeing Funding was 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. This includes £32m for Children’s Services Planning Partnerships (CSPPs) to build local service capacity for transformation and the scaling up of holistic family support in local areas. The work is driven by Children's Services Planning Partnerships at the local level, who have responsibility for deciding how to spend their allocation. Our Evaluation of year 1 activity was published on 31 January 2024 and can be found here https://www.gov.scot/publications/whole-family-wellbeing-funding-wfwf-year-1-process-evaluation-final-report/

We are distributing funding through three distinct Elements co-produced with stakeholders including The Promise Scotland:

• Element 1 – Providing Direct Support to CSPPs:Funding allocated across all CSPPs to build local service capacity and transform family support services.
• Element 2 – National Support for Local Delivery - a package of activity aimed at supporting local transformation. This includes:

o establishing collaborative learning partnerships with three CSPPs [East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Glasgow City] and a dedicated national support team to support planning and provide local learning that can be shared nationally

o a Learning into Action Network and a Knowledge Hub to share learning, facilitate peer support and collaborate ;

o an independent evaluation of the implementation and initial impacts of the programme to help shape and develop activity across WFWF going forward;

o research to support continuous improvement of the transformation support provided to the CSPPs as well as to generate learning about how transformational capability is built.

• Element 3 – Taking a cross SG approach to system change – funding approved for twelve projects led by wider SG policy teams which would progress the aims of WFW.
  

To date the Scottish Government has spent £65.5m across financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24.This figure does not include funding in addition to the local authority allocations for 2023-24 which have yet to be finalised. The following table provides a breakdown of the distribution of funding per Local Authority.