In what is expected to be his last Budget, Chancellor Gordon Brownincreased the child element of the child tax credit by 150 andpromised increases in child benefit from April 2009. The Treasury saysthe measures will help 200,000 children escape poverty, an estimatesupported by economics think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Brown also announced 340m-a-year for the Department for Educationand Skills by 2010/11 to support improvements in schools and children'sservices.
Anne Longfield, chief executive of the charity 4Children, said theBudget proved that Brown was "the children's Chancellor". Kate Green,chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, described the Budgetas an "important step towards halving child poverty by 2010".
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