LABOUR PARTY.
Family breakdowns are leading to youth crime, unemployment and anti-social behaviour, according to a parliamentary report; women's attitudes have shifted significantly, undermining traditional ideas of patriarchal control and economic dependency.
New Labour's consultation document Supporting Families says that "women increasingly want to work and have careers as well as being mothers". There is no attempt to force women back into the home. On the contrary, the thrust of New Labour's Welfare to Work policy has been to get lone parents, the section of women least likely to work outside the home, into the workforce.
- “Marriage is the "healthiest environment" for the family.” – report Supporting Families
The report comes as Home Secretary JACK STRAW is expected to announce that the government will set up an Institute for the Family, aimed at preventing the breakdown of family life in the UK.
- The New Deal program is primarily motivated by the need to cut back on benefits by encouraging, and as this isn't working, coercing lone parents into work. Those that stay at home to look after their children, either through choice or because they can't get a job, are made to feel guilty for doing so.
- Married couples should get better tax-breaks and child allowances.
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"We are taking action to increase take-up of free school meals, investing to improve the quality of school meals and we will keep the nutritional value and cost of school meals under review.”
- Labour will implement a new negotiating body for school support staff and replace term-time only contracts with 52 week contracts:
“We will improve progression and consistency in terms and conditions for support staff through their new negotiating body. In establishing the new body it is our intention that it will resolve the long-standing issues around term time working as a priority.”
- The two tier code application will be expanded into other education facilities:
“We recognise that colleges, universities and academies are responsible for their own human resources policies. Nonetheless, we recognise that for many providers of contracted services such as cleaning and catering in these institutions similar issues of two tier workforces arises as in other public services. The Government will therefore actively engage with the relevant employers’ organisations and seek to introduce the application of two tier principles, based on the code of practice, in these sectors and within the existing planned resources of the institutions. We will also ensure that the two-tier Code of Practice is rigorously applied and enforced in state maintained schools.”"
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Which party is the best for families?
CONSERVATIVE PARTYDAVID CAMERON insisted the modern Conservative party was the party of all families – single parents, divorced parents, widows – and it would be supporting all of them.
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
As we can see, both parties are for traditional nuclear family.
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