Ideas for the Budget to start to reduce the huge costs of family breakdown
by Fiona Bruce MP, Conservative Home:
A little over two months ago, I co-authored a Manifesto to Strengthen Families, about which I wrote on this site, which set out 18 practical policy ideas to reduce family breakdown. This policy programme has now been backed by one in four backbench Conservative MPs and has received strong support from the Government at all levels.
Unlike many documents of this sort, the manifesto was never intended to simply be a paper that was published and left sitting on a bookshelf. We purposely set out to build a campaign around the policy ideas and political support from colleagues to tackle this issue practically, constructively and above all meaningfully for the lives of vulnerable children affected by family breakdown. It also has the advantage of being a current manifesto which Conservatives can deliver.
The manifesto is unashamedly about strengthening families, but it is not some moral crusade. It is an evidence-based recognition that stronger families are vital if the Government is to achieve its ambition of social mobility and social justice, by making Britain a country that works for everyone, not just a privileged few. It is the impact on vulnerable children, who lack safe, stable, and nurturing relationships which unites and drives us. It is also the impact on our economy from the enormous costs of family breakdown which brings the forthcoming Budget into view.
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