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- Title
ESTABLISHING FAMILY POLICY IN BRITAIN?
- Authors
Millar, Jane
- Abstract
It is one thing for Great Britain's Labour government to promise to support families. The question is whether the government's rhetoric has translated into actual policy, and if so, what is the nature of that policy, and what impact it is having on families. There are currently about 1.6 million lone-parent families, making up a quarter of all families with children. The first type of policies set out in supporting families are measures that are aimed at providing direct support for families in cash or in kind (measures to improve family prosperity). The measures under tackling "serious" problems include more use of home/school agreements and parenting orders when children offend, giving local authorities powers to impose child curfews, targets to reduce teen pregnancy, and measures to raise awareness about domestic violence and more effective policies to deal with it. The Working Families Tax Credit is payable to families where a parent is in employment for more than 16 hours per week, with earnings below a certain level, based on family size.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; FAMILY policy; DOMESTIC violence; PARENTING; TEENAGE pregnancy; PARENT-child relationships
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 58, p28
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article