The 2009 Pre-Budget Report, delivered this afternoon, sets out a package to ensure that spending on schools for three- to 16-year-olds will rise by 0.7 per cent a year in real terms and spending on 16 to 19 participation will rise by 0.9 per cent a year in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Spending on Sure Start Children's Centres will be maintained in line with inflation, according to the report, which also announced more than £800m of efficiency savings would be made in schools, children's centres and 16 to 19 participation, including through collaborative procurement of goods and services.
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