It promised: £260m for young people to gain skills; a guarantee that under-25s out of work for a year will be given a job or training from January; 50,000 subsidised places for unemployed young people to work in social care; £100 a year to be added to the Child Trust Fund of disabled children and £200 a year for severely disabled children; £250m this year and £400m next year to help 16 and 17-year-olds stay in education; and childcare undertaken by grandparents of working age to count towards entitlement to a state pension.
But anti-poverty campaigners were dismayed at what they saw as a missed opportunity.
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