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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping Political correspondent

Reform UK’s ‘pro-family’ policies are an exclusionary sham, minister says

A woman gestures as she speaks next to Olivia Bailey, with a third woman facing them in the foreground
Olivia Bailey (centre), the early education minister, visits the Harmood family hub in Camden, north London. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

Reform UK’s “pro-family” policies are a sham and exclude non-traditional families, the government’s early years minister has said before the rollout of hundreds of new Sure Start-style family centres across England on Monday.

Olivia Bailey said she wanted the hubs to be inclusive for all families and transform communities, after what she called the “criminal” dismantling of Sure Start under the last Conservative government.

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