New NCVYS Briefing on Family Policy

In January 2010, the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ (DCSF) published its Green Paper Support for All: the Families and Relationships Green Paper. The Green Paper sets out Government’s measures ‘to support all families as they bring up their children and to help families cope with times of stress and difficulty.’

In the same week the Conservative Party published the family section of the Conservative Party's Draft Manifesto Making Britain more family-friendly, and the Centre for Social Justice published its Green Paper on the Family. (The Centre for Social Justice is ‘an independent think tank established by [the former Conservative Party leader] Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP’ which has been described in a recent journal article on Conservative policy as ‘closely allied to the Conservative Party’.)

The NCVYS briefing paper summarises and compares the three Family Papers, but first highlights potential issues for the voluntary and community youth sector arising from the documents.