If the reaction of the children's sector is anything to go by, the Chancellor's Budget has yet again hit most of the right notes. Gordon Brown is a "childcare champion", according to the Daycare Trust, and there has been little dissent from other organisations.
The Budget made some major commitments to children: money for childcare, Sure Start and early years provision will increase by 17 per cent every year, meaning that an extra 669m will be available by 2008. The bulk of the cash will fund 1,700 children's centres in the country's 20 per cent most deprived wards by 2008, an increase on the Government's previously stated target of 1,000 centres.
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