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This makes me so cross!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14527540
not sure what everyone else will make of it?
I really don't think this man has any idea what he's talking about, and Ed Milliband is right describing it as knee jerk reactions.
Half the policies and what they are "threatening" those on benefits with can only be negative anyway, adding panic into the difficulties those are experiencing.
Supporting these families can be done in such a positive way. I see what Communitities First does in our town (although not my side of town, unfortunately), and I know in Scout we have children from families with problems, and we are able to support these young people even if it is only for 90 minutes a week.
There is absolutely no way this government can possibly understand what issues there are out there. And by withdrawing funding from voluntary groups, things are not going to get better...
Also the "other" side of town has there are families who haven't worked. Yet it is remarkable at how much voluntary work they do. A lot are involved with the junior football (which doesn't sound good, but amazing how many are involved with this).
Comments about 'broken' families isn't helpful really.
I'm afraid git springs to mind, which could well lead to incitement of something perhaps.... Moderarators, please do feel free to delete 
...gosh there are a few policies around that would fail "the Family Test" !!!
It not all about people not working. Some of those charged and convicted with offences in the riots were in good fulltime jobs. I believe it is the result of MANY years of not addressing the problems of vulnerable groups and raising aspirations and supporting parents.
I am glad that Ed Millband spoke out for single parents!
I was surprised he did...
Thing is, how many of these young - and not so young - people "just" got caught up in the mayhem? Heck, if you saw someone running up the street with a laptop, I can almost understand the temptation.
I can't really agree with you there, I know young people can get carried away running around and yelling etc, but stealing is another matter. There was a mum just on the news and she said it was unfair for her "child" to be blamed as he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The interviewer pointed out that he had had a hammer strapped to his leg.
What I do agree with you about, however, is that support can be delivered in a positive way rather than threats and rhetoric. If the support had been there in the first place then things would not have deteriorated this far.
The same case - mother says that it was ok for him to have a hammer for self-protection.
News on and PM going on about families without father's... So insulting.
It really really annoys me that yet again we are being demonised for all of the ills in this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was it not successive Governments who in their wisdom took all our rights way along with teachers rights and the rights of the Police, gave children th right and power to do exactly as they pleased and now that its come to metaphorically speaking bite them on the bum they turn it around and blame us for being bad parents and bad role models!!!!!!!!!!
OH give me an hour with David Cameron, if I couldn`t make him see sense I would definitely give him a migraine!!!!!!!!!!!
And now they want us all to go out to work and leave our children alone.
Quite - to both tiredmum and bubblegum's posts.
You can have the hour with him, so long as I can watch
I just mutter at him and I think I may have clouded the childrens attitude towards politicians...
Hi all, I am pleased to share that our Parliamentary Officer Laura - who sometimes visits our boards - met with Ed Milliband yesterday, he knows of SPAN (Single Parent Action Network) One Space's parent organisation and asked for her views by name!
He recognised and acknowledged the importance of single parents having time to parent their children as well as the lack of care for older children. She felt that he was very positive and recognised that single parents can have a hard job juggling all the aspects of their lives.
So well done Laura!
PS: I saw a great post from someone on the Guardian website, it said 'Stop slating single parents, they are the ones who stuck around!'
Well done from me too Laura.
Perhaps the opposition will consider reversing some aspects of things to ensure that parents can be there for their children are 16. I know my lot have needed me just as much in the last few years as they did when they were small.
I'm not saying that's a solution, but I grew up in a home where there was no one there for me after school (my Mum started working full time before I was 5), and I hated it. Hated being ill with no one to look after me too.
All these changes were media fuelled anyway. Time things were looked at in the cold light of day with input from SPAN and other lone-parent groups as well as those who support vulnerable families. After all, two parent families often struggle...
Single parent families are an easy target for "some" of the Media. We will all know of two parent families who are what is called dysfunctional, and whose children have suffered or gone off the rails. We will also know of many, many lone parent families where there is no question of thuggery or irresponsibility or any of the things of which they stand accused.
Sparkling you make a good point about the 16 year care for children and this used to be the case with Income Support for lone parents as you know. However I do think that even when there are two parents, it is unlikely that one of the parents will be able to be at home that long, just because of economics so maybe there should be some financial help to enable one parent to stay at home, whether partnered or not, and I would pay them an additional allowance to take a relevant course or training so that they were equipped for the job market at the approrpriate time as I believe that is a massive difficulty whatever stage you come off Income Support, you may have been on it for a number of years and need some new skills. Sorry, going off topic there
It sounds very good in principle but.......I do not like the idea that they have to buy them upfront, and also if a lot of people did it not only would everyone be hassled every five minutes by a seller but also it means that each person would have less sales and therefore might have spent more than they earned.
In my personal opinion it would also help if it was a better magazine, I have bought it a number of times and thought to myself that if only it was more interesting I would buy it every week.