According to the Conservative Party website the Conservative Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
A strong and stable family provides children with the security and affection they need. By supporting the family, we can increase opportunity and ensure everyone has the best possible start in life. Our ambition is to make Britain the most family-friendly country in the world.
Our efforts to reduce educational inequality, end child poverty and tackle crime will be undermined if we do not support families.
So a Conservative Government will give families the support, flexibility and financial help they need.
Financial help:
* Money worries can put a huge strain on relationships – so we will end the couple penalty in the benefits system and recognise marriage in the tax and benefits system
Flexibility:
* We will introduce a new system of flexible parental leave which gives mothers and fathers 12 months’ leave to split between them
* We will extend the right to request flexible working to all parents with children under the age of 18, and ensure the public sector becomes a world leader in providing flexible working opportunities
Support:
* We are committed to introducing a universal home health visiting service to help families through the challenges that come with a new child. The number of health visitors will be raised by 4,200 – and new mothers will be provided with a guaranteed level of support for the first five years
* We will support a diverse childcare system, with parents’ needs met by a variety of providers, including childminders and private, voluntary and independent nurseries
Conservative Party Family Policy :http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Family.aspx
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on Conservative’s Family policies in the comments below?
This is for the promotion of marriage and the family unit.
Broken Britain was a term first used by William Hague to describe the breakdown of the traditional family unit and the rise of single parent households and loss of respect and discipline.
The married man’s tax allowance was abolished by Labour and a more generous benefit system made it easier for married couples to part (instead of working at their marriage) and single parent households to spawn.
“Money worries can put a huge strain on relationships – so we will end the couple penalty in the benefits system and recognise marriage in the tax and benefits system”
I think it is also aimed to help those couples where the wife stays at home to look after children and forgoes her own tax allowance. I suppose if more women stayed at home (if they could afford to) then that could perhaps free up some jobs for the unemployed!
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I agree that promoting families in britain is the way forward but I think that any married tax relief should be able to be claimed by either partner as many women now have higher paid positions making it more financially feasible for the man to stay at home rather than the women, after all this party is trying to promote equality between men and women.
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To be honest i think that the policies of teh conservitives are rubbish, how do you expect people of the working class to live !! when immagrents are takihng our jobs and homes they are living like royalty as we are living like pesents!!.
I am 62 years Old my pension is worth