Childcare

This is supposedly one of the "battlegrounds" of the next election and it is fair to say that we are little behind the other parties in developing our policy but a big part of this reason is that we like our policies to be fully costed and we also like them to be approved by all the departments that they will affect.
So, early this morning saw a group of us thrashing out some of the finer points of the policy. The wierd thing is that all our party policy still has to have the final stamp of approval of conference. A good thing for democracy but not such a good thing when it comes to policy keeping pace with the ever changing posturing of the other two parties and the demands of the media.