Bad parents should be given government classes on how to cuddle their children, according to a major new report. Politicians have been reluctant to ‘call out’ bad parenting, despite this having a bigger impact children than money or schooling, the former Labour minister Alan Milburn said. Mr Milburn, who was brought in by David Cameron as the Government’s social mobility Tsar, attacked MPs for being ‘tentative and timid’ about bad parenting. Parents need to be taught to cuddle their children to help cut the divide between rich and poor, according to a major new report He called for a national parenting campaign, funded by cutting childcare tax breaks from families with at least one parent earning more than £100,000 a year.
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Major new report on child poverty calls for nationwide parenting classes
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Report published by Labour former health secretary Alan Milburn today
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He says MPs have been far too reluctant to 'call out' bad parenting
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David Cameron brought in Mr Milburn as his 'Social Mobility Tsar'
Prime Minister @placeholder's official spokesman said child poverty is at its lowest for 30 years and there are now 290,000 fewer children growing up in workless households.