Tories would tighten abortion laws
Press Review 14 March 2005
The Conservatives would allow parliament to pass new legislation tightening abortion laws.
Report brings mixed news for fathers
Press Review 2 March 2005
The courts are not deliberately biased against fathers seeking access to their children, the Commons constitutional affairs committee has reported.
MPs reject courts bias claim
News Article 2 March 2005
A committee of MPs has rejected claims that courts are deliberately biased against fathers.
Fathers4Justice scale FCO HQ
Press Review 1 March 2005
Three protestors from Fathers4Justice - dressed as Batman, Robin, and Captain America - penetrated security in Whitehall yesterday to climb 50 feet up a ladder and on to the roof of the Foreign Office building.
Ministers to extend maternity rights
Press Review 28 February 2005
Tony Blair will today announce plans to extend maternity rights.
CSA chief still in post
Press Review 18 February 2005
The work and pensions secretary has defended the fact that the head of the Child Support Agency is still in his post three months after it was announced he was quitting.
'Childcare is a choice' Kelly claims
Press Review 17 February 2005
Education secretary Ruth Kelly says at least 1,100 new childrens' centres will be on stream by the end of next year but they are "not, as sometimes painted, about giving working parents somewhere to dump their kids".
Chancellor backs 'childcare revolution'
News Article 15 February 2005
Childcare is opening a "new frontier" for the welfare state, Gordon Brown has claimed.
MP united with long lost daughter
Press Review 25 January 2005
Stephen Pound, the Labour MP for Ealing North, has discovered he fathered a daughter during an affair in the 1960s.
Lone parents 'better off' than couples
News Article 21 January 2005
A new study claims that the average couple with children would be financially better off if they split up.
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.
Parental separation
Policy Consultation 18 January 2005
Comment from the Department for Education and Skills, the Conservatives and ChildLine.
Parental separation powers unveiled
News Article 18 January 2005
The government has promised new powers to enforce contact orders in the wake of parental separation.
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Government Affairs Website
Lib Dems accuse Livingstone of childcare failure
News Article 6 January 2005
London Liberal Democrats have accused the mayor of failing to deliver his ambitious childcare plans for the Capital.
