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What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.

What is held for this supplier

At least £50,514,340 across 38 councils since 2019/20

This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".

Canonical id
action-for-children-services
Councils that published a payment
38
Payments published
2,049
Latest year held
2026/27

What each council published, by year

At least this much, per council per financial year. Each figure is what that council published and nothing else.
Council2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/252025/262026/27All years heldPayments
Barking & Dagenhamn/an/an/an/an/an/a£4,705n/a£4,7054
Barnetn/an/an/an/an/an/a£164k£15k£179k14
Bracknell Forestn/an/an/an/an/a£29k£45kn/a£74k7
Bradford Counciln/an/a£7,829£8,471n/an/an/an/a£16k10
Cornwall Counciln/an/an/a£1,100£606k£891k£726kn/a£2.2m100
Derby Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£236k£242k£5,060£483k12
Durhamn/an/an/an/an/a£278k£838k£514k£1.6m63
Ealingn/a£182k£249k£736k£565k£564k£463kn/a£2.8m139
Essex£1.4m£223k£89k£31k£28kn/an/an/a£1.8m32
Gateshead£5,100£11k£118k£3,807£266k£153kn/an/a£557k51
Gloucestershiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1.3m£96k£1.4m23
Hampshiren/an/an/an/an/a£200k£553kn/a£754k613
Kingston-upon-Hulln/an/an/an/an/a£90k£21kn/a£111k22
Leedsn/an/an/an/an/a£38kn/an/a£38k12
Leicester Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£37k£37kn/a£74k4
Lewishamn/an/an/an/an/a£56k£42k£14k£112k8
Newhamn/an/an/an/an/a£9,783n/an/a£9,7835
Norfolkn/an/an/an/a£1.4m£5.7m£5.6m£2.7m£15.3m80
North East Lincolnshiren/an/a£45k£246k£402k£343k£330k£30k£1.4m248
Northumberlandn/an/an/an/an/a£698k£327kn/a£1.0m38
Nottingham Cityn/an/an/an/an/a£2,929n/an/a£2,9291
Oldhamn/an/an/an/an/a£49k£51kn/a£100k24
Oxfordshiren/an/an/an/a£5,792£3.6m£4.0m£1.1m£8.6m88
Plymouthn/an/an/an/an/a£683k£943k£297k£1.9m141
Portsmouthn/an/an/an/an/an/a£22k£16k£38k59
Sandwell£976k£2.3m£2.4m£699k£62kn/an/an/a£6.5m36
Sheffieldn/an/an/an/an/a£66kn/an/a£66k15
Somersetn/an/an/an/an/a£22k£74k£22k£118k33
South Gloucestershiren/an/an/an/an/a£81k£114kn/a£196k19
Southamptonn/an/an/an/an/a£35k£169k£56k£260k33
St Helensn/an/an/an/an/an/a£19kn/a£19k1
Staffordshiren/an/an/an/an/an/a£1000k£638k£1.6m28
Tower Hamlets£26kn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a£26k9
Wakefieldn/a£59k£39k£55kn/an/an/an/a£153k33
Warringtonn/an/an/an/a£5,536£54k£60kn/a£120k22
Westminstern/an/an/an/an/a£11k£22kn/a£33k9
Worcestershiren/an/an/an/an/a£12k£451k£310k£773k12
Yorkn/an/an/an/an/a£548n/an/a£5481

These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.

The largest payments published

The largest single payments to this supplier in the files held, each as the council published it.
CouncilDateAmountDescription
Norfolk11 Oct 2024£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk14 Jan 2025£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk14 May 2025£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk4 Jul 2025£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk1 Oct 2025£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk5 Jan 2026£1,263,314n/a
Norfolk8 May 2026£1,263,311n/a
Norfolk3 Jul 2026£1,263,311n/a
Norfolk4 Jan 2024£1,169,040n/a
Norfolk20 May 2024£1,169,040n/a
Norfolk1 Jul 2024£1,169,040n/a
Essex26 Jul 2019£500,000OTHER THIRD PARTY COSTS
Essex12 Sept 2019£500,000OTHER THIRD PARTY COSTS
Oxfordshire31 Jul 2024£444,843Action for Children Services Ltd
Essex11 Feb 2020£429,717OTHER THIRD PARTY COSTS
Oxfordshire31 Jul 2024£425,000Action for Children Services Ltd
Sandwell1 Jun 2021£403,952n/a
Sandwell13 Jun 2022£375,109Childrens Services
Gloucestershire13 Oct 2025£362,850Childrens Agency
Gloucestershire19 Jan 2026£362,850Childrens Agency

A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.

Which councils and years contributed

Covers 38 councils and 8 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.

Financial years held: 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.

Councils that contributed: Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, Bracknell Forest, Bradford Council, Cornwall Council, Derby City, Durham, Ealing, Essex, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Leicester City, Lewisham, Newham, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Nottingham City, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Sandwell, Sheffield, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Southampton, St Helens, Staffordshire, Tower Hamlets, Wakefield, Warrington, Westminster, Worcestershire, York.

A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.

The council pages behind these figures

Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.

How this page was built

A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.

Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.

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