Chancellor George Osborne used today's Budget statement to announce that while most government departments will have their spending cut by around one per cent during 2013/14 and 2014/15, "the schools and health budgets will remain protected".
But a Treasury spokesman has confirmed that this only protected spending on schools and could put other services under the Department for Education's remit at risk.
This means that early years, social care, youth work and play services could face further cuts.
The Treasury spokesman said each government department had the flexibility to decide how to make the savings and that these savings could be delivered without harming frontline services.
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