Sentences with phrase «conservatives on the child poverty»
Since ennobled, he is now shadow minister for welfare reform and is leading for the Conservatives on the Child Poverty Bill, which has its Committee Stage in the Lords next week.
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The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has called on the Conservative Party to help poverty proof the school day and ensure that no child is denied access to educational opportunities on the basis of their parents» ability to pay.
The Conservative government, he said, would focus on the «real causes of child poverty», which he identified as supporting families, improving education and helping people get into work.
The current Conservative government, under Theresa May, has made noises about compassion for «just - about - managing families,» but the rhetoric rings hollow; on the day I'm writing this, reports have appeared about the government's decision to close the civil service's child poverty unit.
Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.