Hammond’s Budget: A Missed Opportunity To Help Our Children?

Now that the initial fanfare that greeted the Chancellor’s Budget has subsided, and the column inches containing speculation and immediate reaction have become today’s fish and chip paper, it seems the perfect time to review the measures contained in Hammond’s little red box.Before the Budget was announced, I asked whether the Chancellor would be writing a child-friendly budget. Would he include, for instance, measures to boost youth savings? Were we about to see the ring-fenci