At the party's annual conference last week, Theresa May, shadow secretary of state for families, said she would publish proposals to abolish the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).
The party also plans to abolish New Deal. The scheme met its target of getting 250,000 young people into work or education by 2000 but the party puts this down to good fortune. It would replace the New Deal with an initiative called Work First and feed the savings into pensions.
Also at the conference, Charles Hendry, shadow minister for young people, added his support to most of Young People Now's youth services manifesto.
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