Tory policy still needs some improvements
By Ravi Chandiramani
Children & Young People Now
1 October 2008
There is a very real prospect that the next government will be a Conservative one. So it's encouraging that apart from the small matter of a global economic crisis, issues affecting children, young people and families took centre stage at the party's annual conference this week.
Thanks in no small measure to the efforts of ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice, the Tories have embraced the importance of investing in early intervention. In contrast to the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, today's Conservative high command realises there certainly is such a thing as society and that it needs proper...