Parents with babies and toddlers deserve a government that protects family time
Instead of the current, weak entitlement to unpaid leave, fathers and partners should be allowed to take paid leave for four antenatal appointments
Instead of the current, weak entitlement to unpaid leave, fathers and partners should be allowed to take paid leave for four antenatal appointments
Many families can’t afford to have fathers take statutory parental leave
Labour needs to remake the case for a universalist approach to childcare, writes new Fabian Society General Secretary Andrew Harrop.
Shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves calls on MPs from all parties to honour their commitments and vote down the unfair and unjust changes in the Pensions Bill 2011.
Does poverty in childhood inevitably lead to poverty in adulthood? Is it passed from parents to children, ‘cascading down the generations’? Special report by Declan Gaffney.
David Cameron’s speech last week seemed in part to signify a welcome shift away from a focus on marriage alone, reports Kate Bell, formerly of Gingerbread.
Today’s Daily Mail details a row over the role of marriage. But David Cameron’s tax break for couples ignores decades-long social trends.
Proposals to alter maternity leave arrangements outlined at an event with Shadow Minister for Family Welfare, Maria Miller MP, could leave the average family £1,530 worse off. The Conservative think tank, Reform, published a report on Monday, Productive parents, whichtest