The government wants to create an integrated and seamless system of financial support for children. The aim will be to bring together working families’ tax credit, income support and the children’s tax credit which make up the current system of financial support for children. 

Benchmarking is to be introduced for the larger central government IT projects in a further move to limit implementation disasters. All the larger projects will be subject to a performance measurement regime which will include benchmarking and use of the balanced scorecard.Measuring implementation performance is one of the issues being addressed by a joint Government IT industry group - the ‘Senior Forum’.