We know their policies on schools; that they are reviewing their safeguarding policy; and we know their commitment to Sure Start and early years provision. But much else remains to be negotiated between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
The biggest challenge facing the review will be how they make real the government's commitment to being "progressive" - its promise to target less of the pain on the disadvantaged. In the June budget, the government claimed that its tax decisions were progressive. But with 77 per cent of the deficit reduction coming from reductions in public services, it will be hard to demonstrate progressiveness in the October spending review.
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