Prime Minister David Cameron has warned councils against cutting funding for support services for child carers, in a BBC interview.

Following David Cameron's misleading claim this morning that he would not cut Child Tax Credits from those on incomes below £50,000, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have stepped up Labour's attack on the real Tory plan to cut Child Tax Credits from those on much lower incomes. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at a stump speech in South London, said: "The Conservatives would cut C...

David Cameron has defended controversial child benefit proposals ahead of his first Conservative Party Conference speech since becoming Prime Minister.

Prime Minister David Cameron signals plans to scrap child benefit for higher earners will be revised, after current proposal criticised for its "unfairness".

Following David Cameron’s misleading claim on Sunday that he would not cut Child Tax Credits from those on incomes below £50,000, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have stepped up Labour’s attack on the real Tory plan to cut Child Tax Credits from those on much lower incomes.

Following David Cameron’s misleading claim this morning that he would not cut Child Tax Credits from those on incomes below £50,000, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have stepped up Labour’s attack on the real Tory plan to cut Child Tax Credits from those on much lower incomes.

I've just been talking to the prime minister about the chancellor's pledge to cut child benefit for higher rate taxpayers. He concedes that it is "very difficult to do this in a way which is fair" but insists that taxing child benefit or introducing a formal means test would be more costly and less fair. He accepts that he has had to eat his own words. He repeats his desire to introduce ...

Prime Minister David Cameron is facing criticism over child benefit cuts after Labour claimed the welfare reform was "unravelling".

Labour leader Ed Miliband has used his first Commons clash with Prime Minister David Cameron to brand the decision to restrict child benefit a "shambles".

Those who have lost a child say that the depth of grief is impossible to imagine. No less so for parents who live with the knowledge that their severely disabled child's life would be short. Imagine then having to cope with that grief in the public eye. The life, and now sad death, of Ivan, David and Samantha Cameron's first child, will shape the man who may be our next prime minister. I...