The Budget provides additional support to help children get the
care, education and support they need.
School equipment and maintenance uplift – The Budget provides
schools across England with £400 million this year to spend on
their equipment and facilities. (5)
Maths and physics teacher retention trial – The Budget provides
funding for a £10 million regional trial to test how to
improve retention of early career maths and
physics teachers.
Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) – Building on the Serious Violence
Strategy, which was published in April 2018, the Budget provides
£200 million for a YEF to help young people avoid a life of
violence. The YEF
will fund activities for 10 to 14 year olds in England and Wales
over at least 10 years, specifically working with those most at
risk of youth violence to steer them away from becoming serious
offenders. (85)
Contestable Fund – The government is providing £35 million for
the first wave of the Contestable Fund. This is a competitive
fund available to content producers to encourage the provision of
new, high quality children’s TV and radio content.
Centre for Public Service Leadership – The government welcomes
the recommendations of the Public Service Leadership Taskforce
chaired by Sir Gerry Grimstone, published alongside the Budget.
The Budget will provide £21 million to establish and run a new
Centre for Public Service Leadership as a home for the
development of public service leaders. The Centre will support
leaders to improve productivity and transform the outcomes of the
services they run. (8)
