The Children's Plan: Special Report - Spending pledges

9 December 2008 5 mins read Early Years Education Health Social Care Youth Justice Youth Work

The government has pledged billions of pounds of investment to improve the life chances of children and young people since the publication of The Children's Plan a year ago. Beth Cassidy and Andy Hillier investigate where the money is to go.

SCHOOL BUILDINGS

£9.3bn in Building Schools for the Future over the next three years (announced 17 Dec 2007)

£1.75bn in the primary school rebuilding plan (12 Nov 08)

£46.9m to revamp school kitchens (11 Jan 08)

£27.9m extra capital for rebuilding primary schools after last summer's flooding (6 Aug 08)

RAISING SCHOOL STANDARDS

£400m to the National Challenge programme to raise standards in secondary schools over three years (10 June 08)

£144m to roll out the Every Child A Reader and Every Child Counts programmes over the next three years (5 Mar 08)

£140m boost to science and maths teaching in schools (22 Jan 08)

£53m invested in language teaching over next year (19 Dec 07)

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