Delivering his Budget speech in Parliament today, Rishi Sunak also reiterated the £500m in funding for children and families which was announced earlier this week.
‘The evidence is compelling – that the first 1,001 days of a child’s life are the most important,’ he said, pledging that £300m of the funding for children and families would be for ‘a start for life offer for families’ and to set up a network of family hubs, in response to Andrea Leadsom’s review.
There would also be funding for tailored services for perinatal health, he said.
On schools, the Chancellor said that there would be an extra £4.7bn by 2024-25, which he said was a cash increase of £1,300 per pupil.
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