Social Policy

Question 1

1997-2010: Labour Party Policy

Answer 1

Showed recognition of growing family diversity.

New Deals to support lone parents in moving from dependence on welfare to employment.

National Minimum Wage

Child Tax Credits to reduce child poverty and help poor families.

Increase in free childcare - 3 and 4 year olds guaranteed 5 half days of nursery every week.

Civil Partnership Act - enabled gay and lesbian couples to get married through civil partnership. Recognised as acceptable for the first time.

Question 2

2010-2015: Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition

Answer 2

Renewed emphasis on the importance importance of marriage.

2011 Troubled Families Programme - helping families that had problems and caused problems to community around them.

Tax benefits for married couples to encourage others to marry.

2014 - same sex marriages legal on the same basis as opposite sex couples.

Question 3

1980s - 1990s: Conservative Party Policy

Answer 3

Aimed to strengthen nuclear families by emphasising self help through increasing reliance on the family.

Child support agency established in 1993 to ensure absent fathers took financial responsibility for their children.