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  Back to basics: what is childcare policy for?

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  Ellen Pasternack and George Cook, April 2024 Childcare is a larger political priority in the UK than it ever has been before, and the target of unprecedented, and growing, levels of public spending. Despite this, there is little clarity on what the purpose of childcare policy is. Politicians and policymakers often talk as though childcare… Read Full Article
  
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  Breaking the Care Ceiling

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  Frank Young and Daniel Lilley, September 2023 This Civitas report provides new evidence on the number of care leavers who go to university in the UK alongside the first-ever league table of care leavers at UK universities. In 2022 the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care estimated the lifetime cost of poor outcomes for children… Read Full Article
  
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  Children, Smartphones and Social Media

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  Danna Brown, May 2026 This report examines how France, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Australia are addressing children’s social media and smartphone use. It considers what lessons, if any, Britain might draw from these five countries as it develops its own policy response. No single country has a complete solution to this problem, nor has… Read Full Article
  
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  Fixing Human Rights Law

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  Dr Michael Arnheim, September 2023 Fixing Human Rights Law by Dr. Michael Arnheim, a practising barrister, Sometime Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and author of 23 published books to date, provides an overview of what has gone wrong with contemporary human rights legislation – while suggesting ‘revocation’ by parliament is the best way forward.… Read Full Article
  
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  Foundation for the Future

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  This report sets out the findings of an international conference examining what children need for healthy development in the early years and how public policy can be better aligned with that evidence. It draws on contributions from academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, and considers the implications for Britain from trends across comparable countries. There is… Read Full Article
  
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  Islamophobia

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  Emma Webb (ed.), August 2019 In November 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published a report proposing a working definition of Islamophobia which described it as ‘a type of racism’. Despite having received barely any public scrutiny or debate, the definition has already been adopted by local councils and political parties. This volume… Read Full Article
  
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  Marriage and the stable society

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  Daniel Lilley, December 2024 Marriage has undergone a remarkable decline in the UK. The marriage rate has fallen two thirds in 50 years; and in 2021, for the first time, more than half of babies were born to unmarried parents. We also see a growing ‘marriage gap’, in which those who are wealthier and more… Read Full Article
  
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  Overcrowded Islands?

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  Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE, July 2020 The UK population has grown fast in recent years – an increase of 6.6 million since 2001 with a further increase of 5.6 million expected by 2041. Even for a geographically small island, the UK is relatively crowded by comparison with France and Germany. Indeed, an overwhelming… Read Full Article
  
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  Parents have their say on cannabis

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  Frank Young and Shaun Bailey, July 2022 6 million new cannabis users if cannabis is legalised says new Civitas polling New polling shows a million young adults (age 18-24) would try cannabis for the first time if the UK legalised cannabis. More than 1.5 million parents of primary school children would take up cannabis if… Read Full Article
  
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  Rotting from the Head:

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  Jim McConalogue, Rachel Neal and Jack Harris, June 2021 There is a growing concern that the great institutions of British national life are falling prey to ‘institutional capture’. Whether it is Archbishops, Bishops, Chief Constables, Vice-Chancellors, or the leadership of our national arts, museums, heritage, cultural and broadcasting organisations, there is a significant crisis in… Read Full Article
  
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  Teachers or Parents

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  Joanna Williams, September 2024 Earlier this year, Labour leader Keir Starmer announced plans for primary teachers to supervise pupils brushing their teeth during the school day, to address rising rates of dental problems in young children. Meanwhile, teachers complain that increasing proportions of pupils begin primary school still wearing nappies – so that helping children… Read Full Article
  
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  The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology

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  Joanna Williams, June 2020 In less than two decades ‘transgender’ has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying a powerful political ideology driving significant social change. At the level of the individual, this shift has occurred through the separation of gender from sex, before reclaiming biology through… Read Full Article
  
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