The extra funding for local authority children and family services for 2020/21 in the one-year Spending Round is the biggest year-on-year increase in spending power for a decade.
The recent announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid will see Whitehall departments get an additional £13.4bn, of which £3.5bn will to given to local government.
Looking beyond the headline figures, CYP Now analyses which sectors are to receive funding, how it will be used and what the reaction has been of leading sector organisations.
EARLY YEARS
The Early Years Alliance called the amount of additional funding as "tokenistic" in the context of a £600m funding shortfall across the sector.
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