politics and policy
Summer camp plan for every teenager
The Times (London), 22 July 2010
Hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds are to be sent on summer camps at a cost to the taxpayer of up to £1,400 a head under an ambitious national citizen service to be launched by David Cameron today.
Clegg outlines plans to improve children’s fortunes
BBC News Online, 17 June 2010
Nick Clegg has outlined plans to make the UK a better place for children, saying for too many childhood is a time of 'stress, anxiety and insecurity'.
Frank Field, the ‘poverty czar’, wants to help improve parenting
The Times, 11 June 2010
Parents, and crucially parents-to-be, want to know how to do it well, he believed, which prompted him to start work on the parenting guide.
Gordon Brown says farewell to his ‘second most important job’
Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2010
Gordon Brown left Downing Street for the final time, his voice cracking with emotion as he resigned the premiership and declared: 'Thank you and goodbye'.
The single mother’s manifesto
The Times, 14 April 2010
David Cameron says the ‘nasty party’ that castigated people like me has changed. I’m not buying it. By J.K. Rowling.
Running the country shouldn’t be child’s play
The Times, 24 March 2010
Do we really want sleep-deprived parents taking decisions that affect 60 million of us? By Alice Thomson.
Camerons’ fourth child due in September
The Times, 23 March 2010
Should David Cameron win the election. his baby will be born during conference season and during the Pope’s UK visit.
It takes more than Play-Doh to plug a deficit
The Times, 16 March 2010
Sticking it to middle-class mums is the easy option for cash-strapped politicians, but it won’t balance the books. By Rachel Sylvester.
Tories must talk about the next generation
The Times (London), 27 January 2010
A seminal new book about families and fairness could provide the missing soundtrack to current Conservative thinking. By Daniel Finkelstein.
Ed Balls announces new package of measures to support families
Department for Children, Schools and Families, 20 January 2010
‘Support for All – the Families and Relationships Green Paper’ sets out how the Government can support all families, help to prevent and resolve marriage and relationship breakdown, support and recognise dads and grandparents, improve flexible working for families, and give more targeted support to families in need.
Little by little, the blue seeps through Cameron’s silky skin
Guardian, 11 January 2010
Scratch the surface of the Tory leader's dreamy vision of good parenting and his true colours become that bit clearer. By Polly Toynbee.
Mandelson tells parents how to deal with the boomerang generation
The Times (London), 29 December 2009
He has returned to the Cabinet more times than any other minister but now Lord Mandelson is giving advice to parents on how to rid their homes of the 'boomerang' generation.
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