Good Society
It’s time to reclaim family from the right
The Right doesn’t get to define ‘family’ – Labour’s promise to be the party of family can present a radically different offering to all kinds of families across the UK.
Families
More and more of Cameron’s “hard-working people” are reliant on Housing Benefit
More and more working people are reliant on Housing Benefit - contrary to what the prime minister claims.
100,000 families will lose out in coalition’s childcare shake-up
The planned shake up of child benefit system will affect families and their incomes, new research by The Children's society shows. Is it time for a re-think?
Pickles’ Plan to deal with “120,000 trouble families” in a tailspin
Eric Pickles' proposals to deal with 'troubled families' is a rehash of a New Labour policy, but served on bed of dubious spin kicking the poor and public sector workers.
Cameron’s benefit cap rewards family break-up
David Cameron has rooted the causes of the August riots in values and family break-up. So why is he proposing a benefit cap that will encourage parents to split?
How hard is it for families to keep their heads above water?
James Plunkett, secretary to the Resolution Foundation's Commission on Living Standards, on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on ‘minimum income standards’.