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What do the planned changes in the budget mean to you and your family?The budget cuts in (NI) will have a detrimental affect to my children. The education authorities budget was cut recently which meant they had to remove the funding for after schools, home work clubs and summer schemes this year. It’s coming into immediate effect next week. This leaves my son with no access to other children or events he wouldn’t normally avail off coming from a low income household. This will have a massive impact on his mental health and well being. Summer schemes were put in place in youth clubs to assist low income families. Children could get day trips which they normally wouldn’t get. It’s just so devastating. Instead the British government gave 3 million pounds to paramilitary support. The budget hasn’t been done appropriately and the children get again have been forgotten about as a result.