Currently education funding is only protected for five- to 16-year-olds, but the Liberal Democrats say that they would extend the lower and upper age limits and ringfence education spending from the age of two to 19.
The Liberal Democrat leader also pledged to protect the full education budget in the next Parliament.
Including early years and 16 -19 education this would mean protecting around an extra £10 billion of Government spending in 2015/16, which would rise in line with inflation.
Mr Clegg said, ‘Any parent knows that a child starts learning from the moment they are born and carries on learning all the way into adulthood.
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