As the Government grapples with how to progress its work on reducing child poverty, considers expanding childcare provision and examines the fine detail of implementing new children's trusts, the opposition parties are eerily silent.
Differences of opinion are uttered in barely a whisper. On childcare, the Conservatives have signalled their support for at-home mothers and investment in voluntary, rather than state-run, services. But they have stopped short of opposing large-scale expansion of existing provision.
At last week's Liberal Democrat Spring Conference, delegates debated a policy paper that outlined a commitment to early years centres in every community. The policy statement was comprehensive and ambitious, but it amounted to an aspiration that is shared by the Government.
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