MPs warn on family breakdown
Press Review 15 June 2007
A Commons home affairs committee report says young black men are far more likely than their white counterparts to be stopped by the police, arrested and convicted.
Cash to boost disadvantaged families
News Article 29 May 2007
Beverley Hughes has outlined plans to spend £9m helping disadvantaged parents get more involved in their children's development.
Tories review 'red tape of childhood'
News Article 26 March 2007
The Conservatives have launched a review into the quality of childhood, focusing on how to remove "red tape" and enable children to have "vivid lives and everyday adventures".
Play England: Home
Government Affairs Website Page
Reid backs enforced parenting classes
Press Review 20 November 2006
The home secretary will unveil measures encouraging councils to order people to attend parenting classes.
New rules on parental contact
Press Review 19 January 2005
Ministers have set out plans to force divorced and separated parents who ignore child contact orders to do unpaid community work on Saturdays, be placed under a curfew or be tagged.
Field slams Labour over yob culture
Press Review 9 December 2004
Former Labour minister Frank Field has claimed the government's policy of encouraging mothers with young children to work is one reason for the rise of yobbish behaviour.
MSPs back public breastfeeding
Press Review 19 November 2004
The Scottish parliament has passed legislation giving mothers the right to breastfeed their babies in all public places where children are allowed.
National Care Leavers Week
Government Affairs Website
Shared parenting
Policy Consultation 21 July 2004
Comment from the Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Department for Education and Skills, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats and ChildLine.
Discipline the key for inner-city schools, say Tories
Press Review 5 September 2002
Morris praises academic excellence
Press Review 17 May 2002
Forum Brief: Truancy measures
Policy Consultation 25 April 2002
Education secretary Estelle Morris has today hosted a behaviour and discipline summit which discussed the government's plans to deal with the problems of truanting pupils.
Forum Brief: Police patrols in schools
Policy Consultation 16 April 2002
Police in the London Borough of Southwark, who have been running a pilot scheme which has allocated a beat officer for each secondary school, have revealed that it is to
New TV and violence link
Press Review 29 March 2002
