Announcing the budget for 2021/22, Sunak warned that the UK economy is expected to shrink by 11.3 per cent this year and not return until its pre-crisis size until late 2022.
The impact of the health crisis has seen a huge increase in youth unemployment, overspends in local authority children’s services and the threat of closure for many youth work and early years providers.
CYP Now outlines plans put in place to support services for children and young people:
Social care
£3bn in extra funding for local authorities, representing a 4.5 per cent increase in spending power
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