There is more money for Sure Start, tax credits, child benefit and funding for free childcare to help workless parents into jobs.
Funding for Sure Start, childcare and early years will rise by at least Pounds 340m to over 1.6bn by 2010-11. Child benefit will increase from Pounds 17.45 to 20 per week by 2010. The child element of Working Tax Credit will rise by 150 a year from April 2008.
Mr Brown said he had focused on raising child benefits and tax credits to take more than 200,000 children out of poverty.
However, the increases to tax credits come at a cost, with the abolition of the lower ten pence rate of tax and critics accusing the Chancellor of taking money from poorer families.
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