Conservatives policy is working : more mothers are back in work

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259903/Crunch-forces-150-000-mothers-children-time-jobs.html

Building a Better Society : Coalition Promises in Mid Term Review

http://midtermreview.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/building-a-better-society/

Families and Children

We will, for the first time, ensure that all 2 year olds from low income households can access 15 hours per week of early education – starting with the poorest 20 per cent in 2013 before extending it to 40 per cent in 2014.

We will implement our named midwife policy.

We will legislate to promote shared parenting and flexible parental leave during the first months of a child’s life.

We will make it easier for loving parents to adopt children.

We will issue revised statutory guidance on child protection to free up professionals, slash bureaucracy and refocus the attention of children’s services on the needs of children, in line with the recommendations of the Munro Report.

We will reform family law to reduce delays in care proceedings and to reinforce the principle that a child benefits from the involvement of both parents, provided that it is safe and in the best interests of the child.

We will ensure that 4,200 extra health visitors are in post by April 2015.

We will, in line with the Coalition Agreement, ensure that provision is made for Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain on proposals to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples.

Pensions and Older People

We will continue to roll out automatic enrolment into workplace pensions to help people make proper provision for their retirement, while ensuring that small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees) are not required to start enrolling employees until 2015.

We will take forward legislation to put public sector pensions on a fair and affordable footing.

We will put in place a new mechanism to ensure that the state pension age reflects future changes in life expectancy so that the state pension system continues to be sustainable and affordable.

We will continue to protect the state pension through the operation of the triple lock guarantee for the duration of this Parliament.

We will continue to keep our Coalition Agreement commitment to protect key benefits for older people throughout this Parliament.

We will make it easier for people to use their pension savings by increasing the ‘drawdown limit’ to 120 per cent.

Social Action and the Big Society

We will train 500 senior community organisers and recruit 4,500 volunteer community organisers in the most deprived communities by 2015 through our Community Organisers programme.

We will further encourage charitable giving by distributing the remaining £7.5 million of the £10 million Innovation in Giving Fund; expanding the ‘ATM Giving’ scheme; providing more match funding to new charities and causes; and working to improve and expand Payroll Giving to enable more regular donations from the workplace, with a consultation to be published shortly.

We will improve the administration of Gift Aid through the introduction of online filing for claims, expected to be available from April 2013.

We will continue to support public sector workers who want to establish mutuals, and provide service commissioners with the information they need to support the creation of mutuals and co-operatives. We will continue to develop ‘Right to Provide’ policies that will enable mutual and co-operative organisations to deliver a wider range of public services.

Communities and Local Government

We will continue to devolve responsibility to local government and will work with departments across Whitehall to progress Lord Heseltine’s recommendation that local areas should have single funding pots.

We will back proposals from Local Authorities to share services and to integrate their services with other local providers.

Immigration

We will continue to reduce net migration while welcoming those with the skills we need, great business ideas or investments to make.

We will continue to encourage the brightest and best experts, scientists, artists and performers from around the world to come to the UK through the Exceptional Talent route.

We will not limit immigration by entrepreneurs or high net worth individuals who want to invest in the UK, or by senior executives earning more than £150,000.

We will conduct more interviews to crack down on bogus visa applicants.

We will place no cap on the number of genuine students coming from across the world to study in this country, but will extend in-country interviews rapidly to crack down on bogus students.

We will provide 1,000 places a year for MBA graduates who want to stay in Britain and start up businesses, and allow all PhD students who have completed their studies to stay here for longer (up to 12 months) to find skilled work or set up as an entrepreneur.

We will continue to support businesses which use the Tier 2 Intra-Company Transfer scheme, which businesses tell us is one of the most user-friendly in the world. There is no limit on intra-company transfers.

We will keep the shortage occupation list under review with a view to ensuring that employers do not become over-reliant on foreign workers but instead invest in training the resident workforce.

We will apply transitional controls to all new accession countries.

We will introduce a new ‘Life in the UK’ handbook and test, with British culture and history at their heart, and will also require settlement applicants to hold an intermediate level English language qualification.

Equalities

We will introduce a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry through civil ceremonies or through religious ceremonies for those religions which want to opt in.

We will introduce a system of equal pay audits that will compel companies found to have unequal pay practices to amend their systems.

Civil Liberties

We will work to ensure that the Defamation Bill, which protects freedom of expression, passes through Parliament and receives Royal Assent in this Parliamentary session.

We will legislate to ensure that the security services are properly monitored through increased Parliamentary oversight and that proper balance is struck in trials involving highly sensitive matters of national security.

We will consider the report of the Commission on the Bill of Rights.

Political Reform

We will complete the necessary legal and Parliamentary steps to provide for a legal, fair and decisive referendum on independence for Scotland and work across government to ensure the maintenance of the United Kingdom in that referendum.

We will implement the measures in the Scotland Act, respond to the recommendations of the Silk Commission on devolution in Wales and consider the case for devolving corporation tax to Northern Ireland.

We will publish a Civil Service Reform Plan ‘one year on’ report. We will publish for the first time a five year Capabilities Plan for the Civil Service to identify which skills and capabilities are in deficit, and how to address these shortcomings; and we will implement rigorous performance and talent management.

We will review each public body once every three years to ensure that it can justify to Ministers its existence and structure.

We will regulate lobbying through introducing a statutory register of lobbyists and ensuring greater transparency.

We will pursue a detailed agreement on limiting donations and reforming party funding in order to remove big money from politics.

We will bring forward legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by-election where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by-election signed by 10 per cent of his or her constituents.

We will establish a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament to consider the proposals in our Green Paper on preventing the misuse of Parliamentary privilege by MPs accused of serious wrongdoing.

We will complete the passage of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill through Parliament early in 2013 so that individual voter registration is in place before the 2015 general election.

We will provide for a vote in the House of Commons on the Boundary Commission’s proposals for changes to constituencies.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

We will achieve universal broadband across the UK, including rural areas, at a minimum speed of 2Mbps by 2015 and improve mobile coverage in hot-spots.

We will plant a million trees by 2015 and put English forestry on a more sustainable footing, building on the report by the Independent Panel on Forestry headed by the Bishop of Liverpool.

We will implement EU regulations to prevent the trade in illegal logging.

We will implement the Biodiversity Strategy and build natural capital through local nature partnerships.

We will designate Marine Conservation Zones in 2013 and reduce the regulatory burden of marine licensing while maintaining a high level of protection of the marine environment.

We will invest more than £2.3 billion in flood risk management and we expect to exceed our target to improve protection for 145,000 homes by 2015, while also supporting flood-prone communities to access insurance.

We will continue to fund a range of projects designed to reduce levels of air pollution in our towns and cities.

We will implement a carefully managed and science-led policy of badger control as part of a balanced package of measures to control bovine TB and to support the cattle industry.

We will implement the Ash Dieback Control Strategy and consider the findings from the Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Expert Taskforce.

Culture, Media and Sport

We will ensure that the legacy of London 2012 is greater access to, and participation in, sports of all kinds across the UK.

We will maintain funding for elite athletes to enable the British Olympic and Paralympic teams to build on their success at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We will support a new plan to attract and train volunteer Sport Makers to facilitate sport in communities, increasing the capacity to meet the enormous new demand for sports participation from people of all generations.

We will work with the Scottish Government to hold a successful Commonwealth Games in 2014.

We will continue to work on a cross-party basis towards the implementation of the Leveson Report on press regulation.

How do you measure wealth? Income by family or income by individual?

Does the government treat the wealth of (a) one family where the husband earns £50,000 a year and the wife is at home with the children the same as (b) one family where each earns £25,000 a year, with the children ?

In this article it would suggest they are not treated the same when it comes to determining child benefit.

Is this government discouraging mothers from wanting to be with their children rather than working?
Is this government effectively encouraging more people to be slaves to GDP?

I would think that if there are those families whose mothers look after their children, some such mothers may look for work when the child benefits are cut, but many I think will just have no alternative but to cut their cloth.

We cannot serve God and mammon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258783/Cuts-child-benefit-hit-working-families-poor-half-society-well.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9786278/Fury-of-stay-at-home-mums-snubbed-by-Coalition-over-childcare-tax-allowance-and-child-benefit-changes.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/9788008/The-message-of-this-withdrawal-of-child-benefit-is-that-motherhood-in-itself-is-not-worth-supporting.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2259274/But-pick-mothers-stay-home.html

Family holiday packages back on the rise

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258795/Popularity-package-holidays-rise-families-keen-save-money.html

Government to announce proposals for tax break for married couples

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258774/At-Married-couples-line-tax-break--Lib-Dems-allowed-duck-vote.html

Let's not forget the impact of Cameron's cuts : more children may go into care

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/benefit-cuts-will-see-more-children-taken-into-care-8440235.html

How the recession affects family life and future society

But remember, it is not fair for those in poverty and on benefits to have their weekly benefits increased by £3 a week. It is better that they get £1 a week more (if they have approximately £100 a week benefit).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256851/Babies-born-recessions-grow-likely-drug-problems-involved-crime-according-new-study.html

Labour MP Diane Abbott accepts many of societies problems are down to family breakdown

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256850/How-feminism-blame-breakdown-family-Left-winger-Diane-Abbott.html

HMRC hasn't told 300,000 families that their child benefit will be cut

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256381/Taxman-fails-tell-300-000-families-changes-child-benefit-lose-subsidies.html

How we have fewer and fewer traditional families

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254450/Demise-nuclear-family-British-children-likely-live-parents-major-Western-nation.html

Do less and less women want to have children?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254021/Young-women-held-belief-children-ambition-Headmistress-warns-schoolgirls-need-learn-free-make-decisions.html

Government to support cost of childcare

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9768224/Nick-Clegg-promises-to-cut-cost-of-childcare.html

New health system in hospitals to spot child abuse

Not sure if this a good thing or not.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/9766850/Children-visiting-AandE-to-go-on-database-to-spot-signs-of-abuse.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/27/children-national-data-base-baby-peter

Christmas Day is most likely time when adultery is found out

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/9763827/Adulterers-beware-Christmas-Day-the-peak-time-for-text-message-bustings.html

Government wants to encourage more people to adopt

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/24/adoption-parental-leave-national-register

Divorce rate lowest since 1970s

A bit of good news

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/divorce-figures-at-1970s-levels-as-couples-stick-it-out-amid-recession-worries-8427130.html

State can over rule parent's decision about their child's care

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/judge-overrules-mother-over-cancer-treatment-for-sevenyearold-neon-roberts-8424221.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249988/Neon-Roberts-Judge-orders-surgery-Sally-Roberts-seeks-second-opinion.html

Cancer boy will have op against wishes of his mother: Judge orders surgery, but she still seeks second opinion

High Court rules Neon Roberts needs surgery on brain tumour
His mother tells court she does not consent to the operation
Doctors tell court that he would inevitably die if untreated
Mother previously disappeared with child after opposing the treatment

 

The boy snatched by his mother to save him from the ordeal of cancer treatment will have brain surgery today against her wishes.
A judge ordered yesterday that seven-year-old Neon Roberts must be operated on ‘as soon as possible’.
A doctor told the court that without treatment it was highly likely the child would die ‘after a relatively short period of time’.
But Sally Roberts has refused to give her consent because she does not trust British doctors and fears her son will suffer long-term side effects from treatment.
Mrs Roberts, 37, wants to seek second opinions from abroad and argued it is her ‘human right’ to decide what is best for Neon.
But in the High Court yesterday, Mr Justice Bodey said: ‘We do not have the luxury of time. I am quite satisfied that surgery is in his best interests.’
Last night Neon was given his Christmas presents early before being taken to hospital.
He was diagnosed two months ago with a medulloblastoma tumour, which doctors believed they had removed in full during a nine-hour operation on October 25.
But Mrs Roberts refused to let her son receive radiotherapy following the first operation, and recent MRI scans picked up a growth of 1.5cm squared – either regrowth or residual tumour.
Her estranged husband Ben, 34, wrote a statement to the judge saying he was in support of surgery and is said to be ‘anxious’ it is performed as soon as possible.
After yesterday’s verdict, Mrs Roberts, who triggered a national search when she went on the run with her son two weeks ago, said she understood why the judge made the ruling, but added: ‘Should this be my decision as his mother? Of course it should be. It is a human rights issue.
‘I’m not keeping this case going, spending taxpayers’ money, for nothing. I believe in this. Death by doctor – people need to understand how big a problem it is. I couldn’t forgive myself if I did nothing.’
The operation carries a risk of between 10 and 25 per cent that Neon will be left mute. But despite experts unanimously reporting that his cancer has returned and warning that he may have only two or three months to live without treatment, Mrs Roberts said she believed doctors were over-emphasising how ‘sick’ he is.
‘Everyone is talking of me depriving him of treatment, saying my son is going to die. It is simply not true but everyone believes it,’ she added.

‘He’s running about, wanting to play. But the surgery will take it out of him. The operation will affect his movement, balance, his speech. It can sometimes cause the cancer to spread.’
She insisted that she was not fighting simply on mother’s intuition, saying: ‘This is not something I just think. This is something I know. I have researched this.’
She said her estranged husband opposed her actions because he had not done enough research on the subject. Mrs Roberts, who wants Neon to be treated with alternative medicine such as oxygen therapy, insisted ‘death by doctor’ was a ‘bigger problem than terrorism’.
She argued that the only evidence cited in court in favour of radiotherapy was a study on a small number of infants from the 1940s, and claimed to have found studies from abroad which prove radiotherapy is often unnecessary. A doctor in court said he was not familiar with the research.
Mrs Roberts dismissed her legal team minutes before court yesterday because she did not believe they had enough faith in her case. She has since hired renowned human rights lawyer Imran Khan, best known for representing the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
 

The mother-of-two, who is originally from New Zealand, had asked the court to postpone a decision on surgery until she could seek second opinions from Russia, Germany, China and the United States.
She had earlier consented to the operation but changed her mind on the morning of yesterday’s hearing, and said she believes the growth spotted on recent MRI scans could be scar tissue.
Doctors treating Neon, however, claim he has already been ‘disadvantaged’ by the delays in his treatment. Mr Justice Bodey said he had sympathy with Mrs Roberts, but added: ’Putting all those risks in the balance . . . in the unhappy position [Neon] now finds himself, I am quite satisfied that surgery is in his best interests.’
After spending today in hospital with Neon, Mrs Roberts will tomorrow return to the High Court to try to prevent her son being given radiotherapy in January.

Divorce on grounds of adultery may be removed when gay marriage is introduced

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249841/Gay-marriage-law-mean-end-adultery-grounds-divorce.html

This is the exact anti thesis of the grounds for divorce according to Jesus

Matthew Chapter 5 Verse 32 "But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."

500,000 families need to prove to tax man costs of child care

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/families-hit-by-tax-credit-red-tape-8395995.html

The lies perpetrated about divorce

In the following article it is the belief of the government that " ‘it’s not the separation itself that can cause harm to your child, it’s the level of conflict that they see between parents’.

So we are saying that if every single family on earth separated very sweetly not one single child would be harmed! Utter rubbish! Utter lies!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240090/Anger-Coalition-releases-app-make-divorce-easier-crisis-family-break-grows.html