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The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
This week the shadow Families minister, Maria Miller, announced that, under a Conservative government, pre-marital counselling would be offered to all engaged couples, in a bid to cut family break-ups. No one could object to this; it certainly can't do any harm. Forget the fact that the divorce rate is actually at its lowest in nearly 30 years – there were 12.2 divorces for every thousand married...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Young couples would have marriage guidance before their wedding under Conservative plans to cut the number of family break-ups. Maria Miller, the shadow Families minister, said register offices should offer couples "pre-marriage preparation" courses to help reduce divorce rates.
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Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The Conservative conference agenda for Monday 29th September includes * Schools, with speakers including Michael Gove * Crime, with speakers including Dominic Grieve and Nick Herbert * Welfare, with speakers including Chris Grayling * Families, with speakers including Andrew Gove, Maria Miller, and Theresa May
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Cllr Ian Lewis (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Have you heard of Mumsnet? It’s a website ‘run by parents, for parents’. They are are running a survey, with Maria Miller (Shadow Families Minister) on the support offered to new mums. The survey can be found here. If you have a view on our proposal to provide professional home support to new mothers in the first few days, [...]
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Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Maria Miller has launched a survey to find out how health visitors can provide the best possible support to new parents.
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Deirdre Alden's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Yesterday Maria Miller MP, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Children and Families visited Edgbaston. Together we met with the regional Manager of an organisation called Positive Parenting, and with Simon Jay from The Haven project (which is based on the Welsh House Farm Estate in Quinton Ward). Positive Parenting is a registered charity which specialises in the support of parents and those who...
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Leah Fraser (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Mumsnet is a website for parents and is run by mums (and dads) for mums (and dads). I’ve been a member for some time now and recently took part in the live webchat with Maria Miller, the Conservative Party’s Shadow Minister for the Family. You can read a transcript of what she had to say [...]
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Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Maria Miller, the Shadow Minister for the Family, has taken part in a live webchat on Mumsnet, the website for parents.
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
The Evening Standard's Paul Waugh, a man well plugged in to Tory politics, has a Tory reshuffle piece on his excellent blog . He agrees with my predictions about Maria Miller and Greg Clark, and tips Ed Vaizey to replace Peter Ainsworth at Environment. He also thinks Justine Greening, who has impressed in her Treasury job, may also be promoted to the tyop table. In addition, Waugh reckons Theresa Villiers,...
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Text Savvy (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Keith Devlin has written a wonderfully rebellious piece titled It Ain't No Repeated Addition, and I can't pass up the opportunity to comment. The ideas in the article—and from reactions by MPG, Maria Miller, and Denise--touch on a number of fundamental issues that I like to write about here. Let me start by quoting the concluding statement of Devlin's article: In the meantime, teachers, please
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
ToryDiary: On the day that Haltemprice & Howden votes in the David Davis by-election, Was it worth it? Maria Miller MP on Platform authors the fourth part of our 'A Government Worth Having' series: Seats and candidates: Winning in Wales,...
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Maria Miller MP, Shadow Minister for the Family, outlines the measures the Conservatives are proposing to help families stay together. A strong, stable family life is critical for every child. That is why we have put the family at the...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
At the weekend I asked you to take part in a survey to decide who David Cameron should promote into his Shadow Cabinet, and are of Cabinet material. Here are the top 10 Ed Vaizey 53% Damian Green 39% Justine Greening 28.8% Adam Afriyie 21.7% Greg Clark 20.9% Edward Garnier 15.7% Maria Miller 14.2% Shailesh Vara 11.5% John Maples 11.3% Mark Francois 10.9% I then asked which of the Tory 'big beasts'...
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Let's play math! (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
[Photo by Vox Efx.] School’s out — and what could be more fun on those lazy, hazy days of summer than to study math? Check out these articles from Maria Miller of Homeschool Math Blog: How to Help a Student Who is Behind in Math Keeping Your Math Skills Sharp Over The Summer Seek and ye shall find Maria has [...]
