What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Are tax credits the answer?

Or what about more training placements, grants for young families to pay training fees and set themselves up in business so that they can support their children by earning a fair wage?

Affordable childcare? More Social Housing to take the pressure of people feeling they have to commit to a mortgage? Assisted homebuying?

I really feel that not enough is done to help young families in the UK today.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Why is it the UK Gov%26#039;s job to support young families?

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Theres enough support!! Plenty of jobs out there and plenty of benefits to be claiming!! Itd also be better if Scotland became Independent!! OOOH!! I cannae wait for the day man!!

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

I get some tax credits. Don%26#039;t actually deserve them, but they are universal so I take them. So they collect some tax off me, play around with it paying for some civil servants an let me have some back. Where%26#039;s the value in that?

Much better to up the personal allowance from the measly 鎷?00 a week it is. That would help the lower paid immediately.

And how about making the personal allowance transferable between married couples, instead of it being wasted as soon as one of the parents stop work (if they choose to).

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Why cant young people make there own way in life.. why do they have children if they can not afford to bring them up ?

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

That is exactly what they have been trying to do .

They exist to work in the interests of the under privileged.

The Tories work in the interest s of the privileged and do all

they can to perpetuate the privilege of their class

They try to undo all the benefits that Labour has worked for

over all the years. That is what Thatcher did with her govt.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

we really need help in housing certainly in my area south Devon,with so many immigrants (4million i heard) we need so many more houses built throughout the UK. Its OK for those watching their house prices rise but we have 0% of buying one ourselves now

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Tax credits are not the answer as they only encourage people not to earn enough. Once you get to a ce5rtain level of earning every extrta pound you earn is taken away from the tax credit. And once you go over a magic figure (not sure what it is) it all goes.

The tax allowance system needs to be addressed to allow people earning to keep more of what they earn instead of having 40% of it stolen by the tax system.

Tax breaks for child care would also help

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

compulsory contraception unless you can prove you can support your own children

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

What about bringing back mortgage relief through taxes,and why not pay woman a good wage for having and bringing up children after all we are talking about this countries future lets see some realistic help for the youngsters instead of chopping their legs off.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

How about not becoming a young family until YOU can financially support them on your own.Don%26#039;t expect the state ie other taxpayers , to support you. Take responsibility.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Why is it when you can`t keep up with the Joneses you want a hand out, there is always someone worse of than you so think about those people and you will feel rich.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

send them to australia like they did yonder years ago..

on a serious note,

its only britain, howard and bushie that spends money to export its army into irak while the rest of europe and the world is busy making tons of money in exports and businesses....

that created fear and distrust and hate and obviously the rest of the world traded with china, russia, japan,

how much has tony blair spent on irak invasion?

who foots the bill now?

wheres the money to pay the bill coming from???

it couldve paid for a lot of miseries that the british public is having to endure now and years to come...

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Spoken like a true brit %26quot;can someone take care of me,you must help me,it%26#039;s hard for us,I think you should do more for us%26quot;

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

The problem with the tax credit system is that it is too complicated for both parties. Unfortunately it is the families that are suffering becasuse of the mistakes that are made. It needs to be scrapped and set-up again from scratch. I don%26#039;t know alot about the subject but it seems to me that the minimum wage does not cover the cost of living if the government don%26#039;t address this situation soon things are going to go **** up in a big way.

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

Training placements? I%26#039;ve just retrained at my own expense!

Social housing? Got 2 years left on the mortgage that we%26#039;ve been paying all our lives together!

You chose to have these children and be a young family. We hear about the %26#039;nanny state%26#039; all the time and because people get themselves into situations they expect the rest of us to help them out of, the state feel they have the right to make decisions for us all.

Even tax credits not good enough? most countries in the world do not have these or any form of social security.

Get a grip, get a job and stop living off me!

What can the UK Government do to better support young families trying to make their way?

stop giving all our money and resources to immigrants that haven%26#039;t paid their way in our country.