implications are for the sector.
TROUBLED FAMILIES
What was announced?
What does it mean?
The investment will see the programme - which in its first year has worked with 35,000 troubled families - expanded more than three-fold from the initial target of 120,000 families.
Reaction:
Merrick Cockell, chair of the Local Government Association: "We will be seeking clarification that this £200m is actually additional money and not redirected from existing local authority budgets."
Dame Clare Tickell: "The expansion of the programme is a welcome investment in early intervention services, which we know can help turn lives around."
EDUCATION
What was announced?
What does it mean?
Compared with the rest of Whitehall, the Department for Education as a whole escaped relatively unscathed. But the budget rise from £52.8bn in 2014/15 to £53.2bn in 2015/16 still represents a one per cent real-terms cut.
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