The other half is left to cover the remaining 11.7m children, according to the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), carried out for the Children’s Commissioner for England’s Office.
The report, ‘Public Spending on Children in England: 2000 to 2020’, warned the ‘significant’ reductions in spending on early and preventative interventions such as Sure Start and young people’s services may push up needs and costs in the future.
Spending on prevention, such as Sure Start and young people’s services. has been cut by 60 per cent over the last decade, it added.
The research, published ahead of next year’s Spending Review, found that public spending on children overall had been broadly maintained in the last 20 years, but millions of children were missing out.
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