The Department for Education is still discussing the amounts to be slashed in many areas, but some local authorities have already had cuts of several million pounds confirmed. The total across the country will be huge and the effects devastating.
Capital funding for buildings and resources was split into two pots - one for children's centres and one mainly aimed at the private and voluntary sector (known as the Quality and Access Grant), with projects due to be completed by the end of March 2011.
There are obvious parallels with the Building Schools for the Future furore, with schools way down the line to carrying out building projects suddenly left without the money.
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