Speaking at the annual Aspect conference, Sir Paul Ennals told delegates that much of the charity’s work around promoting play and anti-bullying has been affected.
"NCB had more than £1m of funding withdrawn mid-year as a result of that first emergency Budget, specifically, for the work that we had been doing to promote and roll out the government’s play strategy," he explained.
"We had also previously been funded to run Anti-Bullying Week in the autumn. Last year, when we were funded to do it, more than half of the schools in the country did something explicit during Anti-Bullying Week to highlight it as a cause. This year I hope we’ll still be able to get a lot of schools doing it. We haven’t got any money, but we’re still going to do our level best."
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