The measure is just the tip of the British state’s anti-family iceberg. But as with so many of our other problems, it commands strong (if short-sighted) public support.
New guidance from the Government on how to handle pupils who are questioning their gender is long overdue. But will activists respect it?
The fifth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The third article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
We are being forced to pay someone else to do the job we long to do, and mask over the anguish of separation at the nursery door
We must not give up hope, but instead give hope to our people out there who need us to win despite everything that has happened.
There is a danger, not to mention an irony, in a conservatism that views a mother, carer, or retiree as just an inactive worker.
We need to give more time and resource to those bringing up children. Such parents need a much better package from the state to look after a baby in the first year of its life.
Expanding free support for the areas with the lowest birth rates, cutting bureaucracy, bolstering tenants’ rights, supporting cooperatives, and reforming regulation.
The aim should not be to have the government try to boost birth rates, but to remove barriers that impede families from making their own self-funded, preferred decisions.
Parliament sports childcare facilities that most working parents could only dream of – precisely to let MPs focus on their job.
Assessing individual rather than household income ignores real circumstances and penalises families.
With half of children not ready to start school in 2021, more must be done to help toddlers’ parents.
It is the tool we need to give both families and schools an incentive to engage with the urgent question of what third-party providers are peddling to young people.