On flexible working, the consultation has slipped and the pledge has been delayed, despite BIS finding it delivers net benefit, and the Government’s efforts to make Britain more family friendly….
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The Childhood and Families Taskforce was announced by Nick Clegg in June 2010, and was due to report around the end of 2010. It was in part a response to…
The Relationships Foundation welcomes Sam Barker, our new Head of Family Policy Sam joins us from Westminster where he was senior researcher to a Member of Parliament working…
On this final day of marriage week, Relationships Foundation, the think tank for a better connected society, is calling for the Coalition Government and the Office for National Statistics to…
On this third day of marriage week, Relationships Foundation, the think tank for a better connected society, is highlighting the cost of family breakdown to the civil and criminal justice…
On the day the Education Bill receives its second reading in Parliament, Relationships Foundation, the think tank for a better connected society, is highlighting the cost of family breakdown to…
Relationships Foundation, the think tank for a better connected society, is using this first day of marriage week to call for marital status to be reinserted into government data collection….
The Relationships Foundation has today published the results of its third annual ‘Cost of Family Breakdown’ Index. The total cost of family breakdown to the UK was £41.74 billion…
The Prime Minister David Cameron today set out what he called “one of the biggest changes in our national culture for decades” namely changing from a society “that ignores the…
The Prime Minister is expected to turn his attention to family policy in the near future, following on from Frank Field’s review on poverty and life chances. The Relationships Foundation…
In welcoming the report of the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances by Frank Field (1), the Relationships Foundation notes with interest his call for the appointment of a…
John Ashcroft, our Research Director did 8 interviews on Sunday, 28 November, for BBC on the national measure of wellbeing. Click below to either listen to or download the one from…
In welcoming the Prime Minister’s commitment today to develop a national measure of wellbeing, the Relationships Foundation is calling for robust mechanisms to consider how policy in all areas fosters…
Report of the November 10th seminar at the UCL Centre for Commercial Law, London, addressed by the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Dr Arad Reisberg, the Director of the UCL…
The Relationships Foundation has not been actively engaged in the current NHS reforms set out in the White Paper Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS which will give groups of…
Programme Manager – Family Policy We are looking for someone with the vision, ability and skills to influence and promote a policy agenda that strengthens the capacity of families…
The Relationships Foundation has submitted its response to the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances chaired by Frank Field. We welcome the review and are particularly interested in their plans to…
The Relationships Foundation has submitted its response to the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances chaired by Frank Field. We welcome the review and are particularly interested in…
Relationships Foundation again highlights that the Government is still pushing ahead with the Big Society agenda without its most important element – families (as was also the case with the…
While the ‘Big Society’ has become a central theme of the government, many think that family policy has been sidelined. The question now being asked is: “Is this due to…
The Relationships Foundation, the Cambridge-based independent think tank, has written to David Cameron and Nick Clegg suggesting a broad remit for the new Childhood and Families Task Force. This needs…
“Tackling the deficit is essential, but it is not what we came into politics to achieve.”(1) Next week’s emergency budget, called to make a start on reducing the deficit, should…
The Relationships Foundation welcomes the announcement of a new Childhood and Families Task Force composed of senior ministers, chaired by the Prime Minister, to take action to remove some of…
In our fifth press release for National Family Week, the Relationships Foundation highlights open letters it has written to three Secretaries of State whose spending departments are most affected by…
“The Government believes that strong and stable families of all kinds are the bedrock of a strong and stable society.” The Relationships Foundations warmly welcomes this statement found in the…
The Relationships Foundation believes the time has come for a ‘Family Day Bill’ which would ensure that all parents of school-age children can have a weekend day off by extending…
In our second press release for National Family Week the Relationships Foundation calls for the new coalition to commit to ‘family proofing’ all government policy. (1) The Prime Minister has…
The Relationships Foundation welcomes National Family Week.(1) We also welcome the new Government’s commitment to making our society more family friendly. It is a bold pledge, but an important one,…
The Government believes that strong and stable families of all kinds are the bedrock of a strong and stable society. They are an important element of the Big Society and…
How will the coalition newly-weds address family policy? In his first speech as Prime Minister, David Cameron spoke encouragingly about his desire to ‘build a society with stronger families…