To mark the coalition’s first year in power, the CSJ has given ministers just two out of 10 for efforts to prevent family breakdown.
A "paltry" £7.5m has been committed by the coalition to relationship support, the think tank adds in its Coalition Report Card, which also gives scores for ministers’ track record on economic dependency, serious personal debt, drug and alcohol addiction, and educational failure.
It said too much of the government’s support for families is focused on "picking up the pieces after relationships have broken down rather than expanding services designed to prevent family breakdown".
Gavin Poole, CSJ executive director, said: "The government’s first year of action has been mixed. Pioneering progress in pursuing welfare reform and an encouraging new direction for drug and alcohol policy has been undermined by poor implementation of bold education plans, and compromise-driven inaction in tackling our devastating culture of family breakdown."
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