Parents on modest incomes struggling to do the best for their children will pay the price for a policy which is supposed to hit toffs and plutocrats.
Views from Bright Blue, Britain Remade, the Centre for Social Justice, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Conservative Environmental Network, the Institute of Economic Affairs, and others.
Our analysis shows that children in receipt of Free School Meals are three times more likely to be severely absent than their more affluent classmates, meaning elevated absence levels will serve to compound disadvantage.
Sentences in the community can be just as punitive, provide a better opportunity for rehabilitation, and can reduce reoffending rates.
The demographic tide can’t be turned back, but its advance can be slowed – by the self-reinforcing triangle of stronger families, better schools, good jobs, and the stronger society that these help to build.
Universal Support was always meant to sit alongside Universal Credit, specifically focused on helping written-off groups. But it was cut by an impecunious Treasury.
A collection of responses to today’s statement from the CPS, IEA, ASI and others.
Such a policy, already successfully delivered in Manchester, could transform thousands of lives by helping those who are willing, but not yet able, back into work.
A lower tax burden will be impossible without less supply of government. And for there to be less supply, there must first be less demand.
The complicated and patchy system gives the state control over who and how families look after their young ones; parents just have to obey the rules and be grateful for the subsidies coming their way.
A collection of responses to today’s statement from the CPS, IEA, ASI and others.
The Government should give the working poor a £730 million tax cut through an emergency uprating in line with inflation.
The children’s care system delivers poor outcomes for both taxpayers and our most vulnerable children. Reform must be a priority.
Takes from the Centre for Policy Studies, the Adam Smith Institute, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, the Centre for Social Justice, and more.
Khan has failed to deliver on his promise of a city-wide study on stop and search. Instead, despite the majority of people supporting the strategy, use has fallen over the past five years.