THREE CHEERS FOR TORY SCHOOL CHOICE POLICIES

JOHN CLARE, Daily Telegraph

Anyone distressed by tonight's Channel 5 documentary Classroom Chaos could be forgiven for thinking that some schools are beyond repair. But the hell of teaching in Britain's sink schools, as revealed in the programme, can be alleviated. Poor discipline is just one of the aspects of the education system that are met in the Conservatives' plans for our schools - in some respects, they are the most radical the party has ever embraced. Pre-eminent among them is a scheme for making schools responsive to parents' wishes - and in the current climate you can't get much more radical than that.

LABOUR MUST GO for the sake of the poor

Many poor communities are 'coping' - not 'changing' - because Labour treats poverty as a largely material problem.

Tom Jackson of the Centre for Social Justice
26 March 2005

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Tighter Benefit Conditions For People Who Are Able To Work And More Support For Those Who Are Unable To Work

David Willetts, MP for Havant

Reducing The Costs Of Welfare And Restoring Dignity To “Economically Inactive” People

Cllr Adrian Owens, Finance Portfolio Holder, West Lancashire District
Council

Less welfare spending, but more effective support

Nicholas Hillman

NEWS: Reshuffle sees David Blunkett given welfare reform job

BBC Online | 06 May

REPORT: Health inequalities widen

Jeremy Laurance | Independent | 29 April

REPORT: Socially immobile Britain is the land of least opportunity

Jonathan Brown | Independent | 25 April

CH BLOG: David Willetts, pensions and the case for universal benefits

conservativehome.com | 19 April

COMMENT: Volunteers are better at compassion than conscripts

John Fund | Wall Street Journal | 18 April

NEWS: David Willetts announces Tory pensions commitments

Conservative Party | 15 April

CH BLOG: Labour manifesto steals another Tory idea

conservativehome.com blog | 13 April

NEWS: Labour will offer council tax discount to volunteers

Patrick Wintour | Guardian | 11 April

COMMENT: America has dealt with 'the underclass' by segregating it

Charles Murray | S Times | 03 April

COMMENT: The poor get poorer under Gordon Brown

Fraser Nelson | The Business | 03 April

ANALYSIS: Blair's 'make poverty history' bracelet shows that he cares

Sally Pook | D Tel | 25 March

REPORT: Tory-commissioned debt survey identifies 15 million struggling with repayments

ePolitix.com | 21 March

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