I thought they were introducing more surestarts or something
Family
The Government cannot go on ignoring the importance of strong families.
They provide the stability, warmth and love which children need to flourish, and the relationships they foster are the bedrock on which society is built.
We are determined to give parents more of the help they need and make Britain the most family-friendly country in Europe.
A Conservative government will:
Work to improve Sure Start and increase the services provided in Children’s Centres across the country;
Provide 4,200 extra Sure Start health visitors so parents can get the expert help they need;
Introduce a new system of flexible parental leave so parents can share maternity leave between them or both take time off simultaneously;
Extend the right to request flexible working to every parent with a child under the age of eighteen; and ensure that the government leads from the front by extending the right to request flexible working to all those in the public sector, recognising that this may need to be done in stages;
Recognise marriage and civil partnerships in the tax system, bringing us into line with other major European countries and making 4 million couples up to £150 per year better off;
Open a new generation of good, small schools with smaller classes and top-quality teachers;
Support pensioners by re-linking the basic state pension to earnings, and protecting things like the winter fuel payment, free bus passes and free TV licences;
Work with local councils to freeze Council Tax for two years;
Reform the administration of tax credits to reduce fraud and overpayments, which hit the poorest families hardest;
Help make childcare more affordable by supporting the provision of free nursery care for pre-school children and reviewing the way the childcare industry is regulated and funded;
Provide more information and advice for parents and put funding for relationship counselling on a more stable long-term footing;
Review family law in order to look at how best to provide greater access rights to non-resident parents and grandparents; and
Help reverse the commercialisation of childhood, by clamping down on inappropriate advertising to children and letting teachers ban advertising and vending machines in schools.
These policies will give families a fairer deal and ensure that more children get the stable upbringing they need. Together, they mean we have by far the most family-friendly manifesto of any party standing at this election.
This is what the manifesto says the lib dems might have made some changes but I cant see them closing them all
