It also reiterated its pledge to halve child poverty by 2010/11, and said it would increase paid maternity leave to nine months from 2007.
The Conservatives said they would give every child the right to two hours of after-school sport through a Club2School programme, at no cost to parents, and would ban junk food in schools.
Labour said it was the role of local authorities to make decisions on local provision for children with special educational needs. But the Conservatives said the "dogmatic pursuit of inclusion" under Labour had led to children suffering, and promised to introduce a moratorium on the closure of special schools.
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