Government spin doctors have worked their usual tricks on us. We have been fed threats of the loss of most funding for children’s services outside schools. The news, when it eventually came, can hardly be described as good – the schools budget remains constant, with a 12 per cent cut to the non-schools budget over four years.
But it is not the Armageddon some had been preparing for, and we should not pretend otherwise. Ministers within the Department for Education have done better than they had expected, and we should acknowledge their achievements. But times still look tough for children’s services across a number of areas.
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