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Analysis: Policy - Tory spotlight falls on families

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Eighteen months of development have gone into the Conservatives' Social Justice Policy Group report, Breakthrough Britain, and it is now up to party leader David Cameron to choose what to embrace as policy. Tristan Donovan looks at what's on offer.

For the past 18 months the Conservatives' Social Justice Policy Grouphas been developing a new vision for tackling family breakdown andeducational failure.

In that time, the group consulted more than 2,000 practitioners andorganisations, surveyed 50,000 people and held more than 3,000 hours ofpublic hearings.

The result is Breakthrough Britain, a 275,000-word report boasting 190proposals set to form the basis for the party's children and familypolicy. Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who headed thepolicy group, says the report offers a new approach to welfare that willprovide a long-term solution to social breakdown.

An impressive vision

The amount of work that has gone into the report is impressive, but doesBreakthrough Britain's vision offer the answers needed to help those onthe margins of society?

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