Spending Review: Key asks for children and young people

Organisations across the sector have long called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to “put children and young people at the centre” of the first CSR since 2015.

The CSR was cancelled in 2019 due to delays over the Brexit deal and Theresa May’s resignation in June that year.

A one-year spending review took place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The CSR will determine government spending until 2024/25 and has been announced alongside the Autumn Budget - but did it meet the hopes of sector leaders, charities and practitioners working with vulnerable children and families?

CYP Now breaks down the key asks by sector:

Social care

• ‘Place support for speaking and understanding at the heart of Spending Review’

• Spending Review: Government urged to 'go further' to support vulnerable children and families

• Care Review chair lays out top three priorities for Spending Review

Early years

• Spending Review: Coalition urges investment in support for children from birth

• ‘Complex and confusing’ early years system is failing families, researchers warn

• Spending Review: Charities urge investment in parenting support

• Briefing: Childcare funding dispute

Education

• Spending Review: Experts call for £13.5bn for education recovery

• Spending review will determine long-term impact of Covid-19

• County councils face £1.3bn special needs deficit

• Spending Review: Government urged to increase funding for speech and language therapy

Youth work

• Analysis: Youth work cash crisis prompts call to action

• Charities issue stark warning over ‘decimation of youth services’

Health

• Spending Review: Charities urge investment in parenting support

• Children’s mental health services at ‘tipping point’

• Spending Review: Expand ‘no-referral’ mental health hubs for young people, says LGA

Youth justice

• Vulnerable children face growing risk of child criminal exploitation, Barnardo’s warns

Opinion

• We can absolutely afford to invest in our young people

• Let's invest in our children and young people