Labour has said that it is defending local families against Tory plans that could see families worse off.

Brighton Kemptown Labour parliamentary candidate Simon Burgess said:
"Labour has rightly focused on supporting our children to give them the best possible start in life with policies like tax credits, Sure Start children’s centres, providing record levels of child benefit and protecting funding for schools. That's what families really need.”

Brighton Pavilion Labour parliamentary candidate Nancy Platts said:
“Under Tory plans thousands of loving, caring families right here in Brighton and Hove would lose out as David Cameron and George Osborne try to tell parents what their families should look like. And say they will cut Child Tax Funds and cut Child Tax Credits. Not only are the Tories nationally not working for all families but in Brighton and Hove, they plan to cut £600,000 from the Sure Start children’s centre budget.

Labour’s Work and Pensions Secretary, Yvette Cooper, said:
"Look behind the headlines: what the Tories claim to be giving to some couples with one hand, they are taking from children with the other. The Tories’ choice is to cut Child Tax Credits, cut Child Trust Funds, scale back Sure Start and they refuse to protect the schools budget. How is that fair?

"Of course marriage and strong relationships are important for families and bringing up children. But it is appalling to tell widows or women who've left an abusive husband that they don't deserve support.  And it is completely unfair to tell children whose parents, for whatever reason, aren't married that they and their families are second class.  What kind of signal is that?  How can that be good for families in Britain?”

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