Budget 2008 & Yorkshire and Humber's children's services

The Budget 2008 announced several spending plans of interest to children's services in Yorkshire and Humberside.

- A strategy for providing "seamless enterprise education from primary schools to higher education" which will benefit 324 secondary schools in Yorkshire & Humber (see video below).
- Increases to child benefit and child tax credits which will benefit 620,000 families and 338,000 families respectively.
- Money to support the National Challenge (83 schools regionally) and money to support the 14 academies to be opened by 2011.