Save the Family Featured on the BBC's 'The One Show'
A charity that the Centre for Social Justice
have worked with were featured on 'The One Show' on Monday 12
October. Click here to watch the show on BBC iPlayer.
The report starts at 2:40 minutes and Save the Family feature at
6:30. The report finishes at 10:36.
To see all that Save the Family do click here.
Family Affairs
Nick Clegg’s recent misrepresentation of Conservative proposals to strengthen families and recognise the uniqueness of marriage, adopted from Breakthrough Britain, was little more than political point scoring.
He denied that Britain was broken; he accused David Cameron of being obsessed with ‘cajoling people to conform to a single view of what a happy couple should look like’; and he dismissed CSJ family policies as ‘bizarre and patronising’.
Yet Every Family Matters, building on Breakthrough Britain and our early intervention work, calls for a move away from such outdated politics of left and right on marriage and family - instead looking at ‘what works’ for society.
Based on evidence, we call for greater utilisation of marriage preparation courses; community support and guidance for families through new Family Relationship Hubs; a cooling off period before divorce proceedings are initiated; mandatory mediation in children matters; and valuation of the uniqueness of marriage in the tax and benefits system.
It is time to recognise that healthy marriages build healthy families, and healthy families build a healthy society. Reversing social breakdown starts there.
You can read what Nick Clegg MP said here
And read what Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (Chairman of the CSJ) has to say on the matter here
In the News!
In the first of a new series on fixing Broken Britain, Paul Kendall investigates how society suffers when a family breaks down. A new report released by the Centre for Social Justice calls for the law to focus on marriage as at the heart of the family and proposes a three month "cooling off" period before couples go through with a divorce.
To read the article in full, click here
In the News!
Straw promises another increase in media scrutiny of family courts –
The Times – 9/7/09
Thousands of cases in the family courts will be exposed to increased public scrutiny
under reforms to be announced by Jack Straw. Media restrictions are to be relaxed
and details of child abuse allegations may be published. These reforms have
developed in the light of a campaign, led by The Times, to open up the family courts
and increase their accountability.
To read the article in full, click here
In the News!
Nick Clegg: Out of Love with the Tories? – Spectator - 7/7/09
Nick Clegg’s recent speech on the family includes an attack on the Conservative’s focus on marriage and its preservation. Whether a political manoeuvre or simply an outburst against the Tories’ “bizarre and patronising” family policies, Nick Clegg’s surprising stance is worth keeping an eye on.
To read the article in full, click here
In the News!
£1m asylum return scheme helped one family – Guardian 24/6/09
Children's Society says project was a
failed opportunity to deal with 2,000 children locked up in
immigration centres. Despite the ‘good intentions’ of the
scheme, which aimed to help keep families out of asylum centres,
only one family successfully returned
home.
To read the article in full,
click here
