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How will the new government affect families? FPI report
21 Oct 2010
The Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) has published a report from their July conference including suggestions for how government should manage spending cuts to ensure the best outcomes for families.
The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum for policy makers, voluntary organisations from across the range of family interests and commentators to work together to draw out emerging policy messages and to identify opportunities and risks for families.
The top line priorities identified at the event include intergenerational families, work life balance, families at risk and family poverty. The report states that cuts should be based on impact assessments for different types and generations of families and that commissioning practice needs to ensure that small organisations have the capacity to maintain early intervention work.
Other issues raised within the report include how early intervention and prevention services have in the past been casualties of public spending cuts and that support needs to be in place and preserved to enable the most chaotic and vulnerable families to access and use services. One discussion calls for a review of the purpose of early years’ childcare, either to enable parents to work or to support child development, with research to be undertaken on what works well for families as well as just children.
Read the full report here.
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