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The other thread about one of the parties cutting child benefit got me thinking about what else the parties had policies on regarding families. Got this off the BBC website but didn't want to clog the other thread 
Conservative
** End tax credits for families earning over £50,000
**Let parents share maternity leave
**Recognise marriage in the tax system by allowing adults who are married or in a civil partnership to transfer up to £750 of their tax-free personal allowance to their spouse, as long as the higher-income member of the couple is a basic-rate taxpayer
**End government contributions to Child Trust Funds for all but the poorest third of families and families with disabled children
**End the "couple penalty" for all couples in the tax credit system
**Re-focus SureStart on the "neediest" families
**Provide 4,200 more health visitors
**Support free nursery care for pre-school children, from a range of private and public providers
**Extend the right to request flexible working to every parent with a child under the age of 18.
Labour
**Reject Conservative plans to "recognise" marriage in the tax system
**Protect the Child Trust Fund
**Aim to end child poverty by 2020
**Increase free nursery hours to 15 hours a week for three- and four-year-olds
**Provide nursery places for 20,000 two-year-olds in the most deprived areas by 2012
**Provide two extra outreach workers for 1,500 SureStart community support centres in most disadvantaged areas
**Fund two parenting advisers in every local authority
**Pioneer mutual federations running groups of local children's centres
**Guarantee primary school pupils childcare from 8am until 6pm in term-time at school to help working parents
**Double paid paternity leave to four weeks
**Continue to provide nine months of paid maternity leave, but no extension to 12 months
A**llow mothers to share maternity leave with fathers after six months
**Give parents of one- and two-year-olds an extra £4 a week in Child Tax Credit for each child from 2012.
Lib Dems
**Allow parents to share maternity leave, and extend it to 18 months when resources allow
**Give fathers the right to time off for ante-natal appointments
**Extend the right to request flexible working to all employees, not just parents and carers
**Fix the payments of tax credits for six months at a time so that payments are stable and predictable
"restrict" tax credits to "those who need them most"
**End government payments into Child Trust Funds
**Maintain the commitment to end child poverty in the UK by 2020.
Just incase anyone's interested xx
Conservative
** End tax credits for families earning over £50,000
**Let parents share maternity leave
**Recognise marriage in the tax system by allowing adults who are married or in a civil partnership to transfer up to £750 of their tax-free personal allowance to their spouse, as long as the higher-income member of the couple is a basic-rate taxpayer
**End government contributions to Child Trust Funds for all but the poorest third of families and families with disabled children
**End the "couple penalty" for all couples in the tax credit system
**Re-focus SureStart on the "neediest" families
**Provide 4,200 more health visitors
**Support free nursery care for pre-school children, from a range of private and public providers
**Extend the right to request flexible working to every parent with a child under the age of 18.
Labour
**Reject Conservative plans to "recognise" marriage in the tax system
**Protect the Child Trust Fund
**Aim to end child poverty by 2020
**Increase free nursery hours to 15 hours a week for three- and four-year-olds
**Provide nursery places for 20,000 two-year-olds in the most deprived areas by 2012
**Provide two extra outreach workers for 1,500 SureStart community support centres in most disadvantaged areas
**Fund two parenting advisers in every local authority
**Pioneer mutual federations running groups of local children's centres
**Guarantee primary school pupils childcare from 8am until 6pm in term-time at school to help working parents
**Double paid paternity leave to four weeks
**Continue to provide nine months of paid maternity leave, but no extension to 12 months
A**llow mothers to share maternity leave with fathers after six months
**Give parents of one- and two-year-olds an extra £4 a week in Child Tax Credit for each child from 2012.
Lib Dems
**Allow parents to share maternity leave, and extend it to 18 months when resources allow
**Give fathers the right to time off for ante-natal appointments
**Extend the right to request flexible working to all employees, not just parents and carers
**Fix the payments of tax credits for six months at a time so that payments are stable and predictable
"restrict" tax credits to "those who need them most"
**End government payments into Child Trust Funds
**Maintain the commitment to end child poverty in the UK by 2020.
Just incase anyone's interested
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