The manifesto, officially launched by party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Bradford today, confirms a range of policies that featured in a leaked draft version that emerged last week, such as extending free childcare entitlement and preventing further cuts to youth centres and children's services.
But it also includes a fresh commitment to improve the way the children's care system works.
The manifesto claims that the Conservative government is "currently failing to develop a strategy for the wholesale improvement of the care system that delivers for all, not just those children being considered for adoption".
"We will promote the care and educational achievement of our most vulnerable children and increase support for children in kinship and foster care, and their families," the manifesto adds.
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