If last month's £6.24bn of immediate cuts provided the build-up, today's (22 June) emergency Budget and autumn's impending spending review form the two main events in the coalition's goal to bring down the public deficit.
Interspersed are plenty of other cuts announcements, minor moves in comparison yet hugely significant in their own right.
The "cultural offer" of five hours of creative and cultural activity every week for every young person and the Future Jobs Fund were for instance banished from the field of play last week.
While the government continues so relentlessly to set the tone of austerity, it is up to local areas to identify where to make savings. Councils for their part have to juggle their priorities alongside statutory obligations to children and young people.
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