The FPI Family Friendly report card says that despite the recent focus in policy on early years education and schools over the last year, the impact of spending cuts on local services such as children’s centres are now starting to be felt by families.
It goes on to say there is concern that decisions made by different local authorities when cutting budgets could create a ‘postcode lottery’ of local services for families.
Overall, the charity has given the UK a D plus grade in its annual assessment of the country’s progress in becoming a family friendly society, using school style grades. This year’s score is a grade less than in 2010, when the FPI awarded the UK a C minus (News, 13 July 2010). It attributes the effect of the economic climate and increased living costs on families to the low mark.
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