Press Release 15 May 2012   New Anti-Trafficking Bill introduced in Parliament today  In the wake of the recent Rochdale trafficking ring convictions, new legislation to protect child victims of trafficking Campaigning Tory Peer, Lord McColl of Dulwich will today introduce an important Anti-Trafficking Bill in the House of Lords. Amidst growing concerns about the [...]

Independent Parliamentary Inquiry calls for better protection for children online Pornography is far too easily accessed by children online, according to the Report published this week by the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection.  The Report highlights the devastating impact pornography has on young people, as well as the shocking prevalence of viewing pornography [...]

CARE warmly welcomes the Report from the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, published today. Conducted by Claire Perry and a cross-party group of MPs, the Inquiry’s Report tackles the issue of protecting children online – a cause CARE has worked on for a number of years, most recently with Baroness Howe of Idlicote [...]

·        One in three children has seen hardcore internet pornography ·        Software to protect children absent from half of computers New laws which will make it more difficult for children to access hardcore pornography were introduced in Parliament on Wednesday. The legislation will introduce new controls to halt the rising numbers of children who have [...]

Baroness Howe of Idlicote (pictured, right) introduced her ‘Online Safety’ Private Members Bill to the House of Lords today. It requires those companies that supply internet services – whether at home or on a mobile device – to filter pornographic content, unless an adult user specifically asks for access to such content. This mechanism is [...]

Social policy charity CARE has today expressed its disappointment in yesterday’s Budget. The Budget provided the Government with the opportunity to recognise marriage in the tax system, to make our fiscal arrangements more sensitive to family responsibility and help those on low to modest incomes. The transferable allowance for married couples promised in the 2010 [...]

CARE welcomes the Chancellor’s announcements in the Budget today that he will first raise the threshold for the withdrawal of child benefit to £50,000 and subsequently withdraw the benefit gradually between £50,000 and £60,000 to avoid a “cliff edge”. Serious problems remain however. The proposals are still not “fair”, as the Chancellor claimed they would [...]

Today’s Budget provides a wonderful opportunity for the Government to give effect to their commitment to marriage, emphasised as recently as last week, by supporting marriage through the tax system. Recognising the benefits which marriage has for society, a commitment to do this through the provision of a transferable allowance was included in the 2010 [...]

Coalition for Marriage – Consultation launched | Keep signing the petition! The Coalition for Marriage (C4M) petition supporting the current legal definition of marriage and opposing the Government’s plans to redefine it has now reached 220,000 signatures!  This is almost 50,000 more than the largest petition on the Government’s e-petition website. The Government’s consultation document [...]

UK tax system tightens the screw on ‘squeezed middle’, warns major new report from social policy charity CARE is publishing its fifth annual review by independent consultants of the taxation of families – The taxation of families 2010/11. This is one of the most comprehensive reviews of the tax burden on families that anyone has [...]