The Children's Plan: Special Report - Spending pledges

EDUCATION

SCHOOL BUILDINGS

£9.3bn in Building Schools for the Future over the next three years (announced 17 Dec 2007)

£1.75bn in the primary school rebuilding plan (12 Nov 08)

£46.9m to revamp school kitchens (11 Jan 08)

£27.9m extra capital for rebuilding primary schools after last summer's flooding (6 Aug 08)

RAISING SCHOOL STANDARDS

£400m to the National Challenge programme to raise standards in secondary schools over three years (10 June 08)

£144m to roll out the Every Child A Reader and Every Child Counts programmes over the next three years (5 Mar 08)

£140m boost to science and maths teaching in schools (22 Jan 08)

£53m invested in language teaching over next year (19 Dec 07)

£24m pledged to set up a training programme for 13,000 existing primary school teachers, as recommended by an independent review of maths in primary schools (17 Jun 08)

£15m package created to raise the aspirations and attainment of gifted pupils from state schools (30 Jan 08)

£10m for 0-7 partnership coalitions between primary schools, early years providers, health and other family services, to make sure young children are ready to start school (4 May 08)

£10m to support the expansion of state boarding schools over the next three years (12 Sept 08)

£5m made available to get more primary school boys reading (14 Jun 08)

£1.8m investment to extend the geography action plan (27 Mar 08)

£500,000 to test cooperative school model in 100 schools (11 Sept 08)

£300,000 to enable high-achieving schools to help less successful schools to become academies (14 Jan 08)

BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

£300m investment for children from jobless and low-income families to receive a free computer and broadband access under the Home Access Grants scheme (23 Sept 08)

£30m for low-income families from the most disadvantaged areas to improve home internet access through the Harnessing Technology Grant (9 Jan 08)

14 TO 19 REFORM

£81m extra funding to prepare teachers to deliver the new diplomas (3 Jun 08)

£45m in teacher training to support the roll out of diplomas in 2008/09, plus £28m additional cash for funding diplomas in (18 Dec 08)

£60m to create showpiece projects to boost teaching of the diploma (15 Jul 08)

£30m allocated to new skills academies for enterprise, power, IT and social care (7 Oct 08)

£23m to help rural areas put in place plans to ensure all young people can benefit from diplomas (30 Jun 08)

HEALTHY EATING

£21m funding for School Food Trust 2008 to 2011 (5 Feb 08)

£20m for free healthy school meals for primary school children in deprived areas, to cut obesity and get young people eating more healthily (24 Sept 08)

£6m investment to raise school lunch take-up (10 Jul 08)

£2.5m a year to roll out compulsory cooking lessons in schools (15 Jan 08)

£2m capital investment for School Feast training centres (5 Feb 08)

DISCIPLINE

£26.5m given to tackle poor behaviour in schools (20 May 08)

SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

£10m additional investment a year for schools to train their special educational needs co-ordinator (29 Jul 08)

EDUCATIONAL VISITS

£4.65m to fund the Holocaust Educational Trust over three years (4 Feb 08)

£4.5m pledged for the Learning Outside the Classroom initiative (2 Oct 08)

SAFETY

£1.6m grant for practical safety education for children (11 Nov 08)

CULTURAL LEARNING

£1.4m pledged to set up Global Fellowships to enable 100 school leavers a year to go abroad (3 Jan 08)

£100,000 for an extension to the International Extended Placements scheme to send school leaders on mini-gap years to Africa (8 Aug 08)

TOTAL: £12.62bn

HEALTH

£1bn committed to tackle drug use and protect families (27 Feb 08)

£372m allocated through the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives obesity strategy (23 Jan 08)

£370m committed to short-break services for disabled children (10 Jan 08)

£52m on children's communication action plan (08 Jul 08)

£42m for research into children's health and underfunded areas (25 Mar 08)

£35m for Disabled Children's Access to Childcare project (15 May 08)

£26.8m to improve young people's access to contraception (6 Feb 08)

£20m for children's mental health services, plus £500,000 to develop work with special schools and pupil referral units. Helpline support for parents/carers receives £500,000 (15 Nov 08)

£20m allocated to improve Children's Palliative Care services (19 Feb 08)

£13.5m to improve health, including children's health, in disadvantaged areas (19 Nov 08)

£6m pledged to improve the support for young carers (10 Jun 08)

£5m for package of measures to empower parents with children with special educational needs over the next three years (15 Oct 08)

£4m for campaign to raise awareness of damaging effects of binge drinking on 18- to 24-year-olds (17 Jun 08)

£2m to be invested to help more women in England to breastfeed (5 Aug 08)

£800,000 to boost British Sign Language (26 May 08)

£340,000 given to Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children (28 Apr 08)

£150,000 given to new national breastfeeding helpline (15 Feb 08)

TOTAL: £1.97bn

EARLY YEARS

£819m given to provide thousands more families with access to free childcare and early years support (9 Jul 08)

£305m allocated to improve graduate leadership in early years settings over the next three years (3 April 08)

£125m committed in Budget to tackle child poverty, including increased access to early years provision (12 Mar 08)

£75m allocated to Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work programme (8 Sept 08)

£7m pledged over the next three years to allow 5,000 Sure Start practitioners to take up new training opportunities (4 Mar 08)

TOTAL: £1.33bn

ARTS, SPORT & CULTURE

£265m cash fund to give young people in 18 disadvantaged areas access to sports, arts and drama (7 Jul 08)

£135m funding for cultural activities, including £25m for Finding Your Talent Programme (13 Feb 08)

£50m for free swimming sessions for under-16s (23 Sept 08)

£30m investment over the next three years to help improve sports college facilities (31 Jan 08)

£5.5m to boost dance opportunities for young people (17 Mar 08)

£3m for the In Harmony programme to give every child the chance to learn an instrument (20 Jun 08)

£3m for the sports, media and arts youth mentoring programme (24 Jun 08)

£2.5m to encourage young people to experience live theatre (23 Sept 08)

TOTAL: £494m

YOUTH JUSTICE

£218.5m committed to Youth Taskforce Action Plan (18 Mar 08)

£100m allocated in Youth Crime Action Plan (15 Jul 08)

£5m allocated to tackle knife and gun crime nationwide (22 May 08)

£3m allocated to 10 targeted areas to keep young people safe by providing extra police patrols (21 Oct 08)

£1m for Tackling Violence Action Plan to prevent young people getting involved with knife crime (18 Feb 08)

£875,000 for national crackdown by police to confiscate alcohol from under-18s drinking in public (6 Feb 08)

TOTAL: £328m

PLAY

£225m committed to spending on play facilities over three years (29 Feb 08)

£10m of additional investment made available for play facilities (3 Apr 08)

£7.5m to give 4,000 play workers access to Level 3 qualifications (3 Apr 08)

TOTAL: £243m

YOUTH WORK

£201.7m to be invested in the Myplace fund to deliver world-class places for young people to go (3 April 08)

£6m over the next three years to work with youth leadership organisations (29 Feb 08)

£4.5m allocated to Young Inspectors pilot scheme (14 Nov 08)

£4.5m for positive youth activities, including young people's arts, media projects and residential summer camps, to improve community relations (19 Aug 08)

TOTAL: £217m

SOCIAL CARE

£73m to improve training, recruitment and development of social workers as part of Children's Workforce Plan (3 April 08)

£56m funding for children in care to get personal tutors, homework support and theatre trips (28 May 08)

£13m for intensive support for vulnerable families, whose children may be struggling at school and a further

£3m to help young carers (4 May 08)

£5m committed to 10 Staying Put pilots to allow young people to stay in social care past the age of 18 (16 June 08)

£3.8m awarded to eight local authorities to set up multi-agency teams to help foster children aged between seven and 11 who are displaying antisocial behaviour to settle in care placements (23 May 08)

TOTAL: £154m

THIRD SECTOR

£100m allocated to the Youth Sector Development Fund to enable the third sector to engage and empower young people over the next three years (5 Mar 08)

£31m committed to nearly 100 third sector organisations through the Children, Young People and Families Grant Programme (15 Feb 08)

TOTAL: £131m

PARENTING

£44m for the Parent Know-How programme, which will help parents get extra help with issues such as bullying, school exclusions and dealing with the impact of divorce (8 Mar 08)

£8m given to successful parenting services that work with some of the most vulnerable parents, including teenage parents, disabled parents and families facing break-up. (18 Jun 08)

TOTAL: £52m

COMMUNITY COHESION

£12.5m to tackle radicalisation and help prevent extremism (3 Jun 08)

£4.68m additional funding for local authorities and the police to roll out The Learning Together to be Safe extremism toolkit in schools (8 Oct 08)

TOTAL: £17m

BEST PRACTICE

£12m to run the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services over the next three years (12 Jul 08)

METHODOLOGY

This data has been compiled from press releases published on the websites of the Department for Children, Schools and Families and seven other key government departments between 12 December 2007 and 28 November 2008. Funding reannoucements and breakdowns of individual funds have not been included. Please note that it is not possible to guarantee that all Children's Plan-related funding pledges made in 2008 are included in the above data.

TOTAL PLEDGED: £17.57bn.