When were the conservatives in power? What are their key aims?

1986 Married Couples Tax Allowance
*feminists = continuing to promote policies that perpetuate gender inequality

1988 Benefit Cuts

1993 Child Support Agency

Privatising care for the elderly

Refusal to introduce free/reduced cost childcare

When was labour in power?
What were their key aims?

1998 New Deal

Working Families Tax Credit

More generous maternity leave and pay and paternity leave

15 1/2 hours per week of free childcare for two and a half year olds

Winter fuel payments for the elderly

2002 The Adoption and Children Act

2004 The Civil Partnership Act

When was the coalition government (and who between)?

(reintroduction of) the Married Couples Tax Allowance

The Legal Aid budget cut

Child Benefit became means tested

2011 Troubled Families Programme

Scaling and cutting back benefits

How have the conservatives been criticised?

How have the labour been criticised?

How have the coalition been criticised?

Increase in paternity benefits