Building Brighter Futures

Beyond the autumn budget: building a joined-up future for children, families and communities

This week, the Chancellor, John Healey, delivered his first Budget, 100 days after Andy Burnham took office. This was not designed to change immediate policy priorities or overhaul existing reform programmes. Instead, it sought to provide households with ‘breathing room’ to weather rising living costs, while giving the government the breathing space needed to advance its wider reform agenda.