A full list of the 25 policies announced by the Conservative Party at its conference in Bournemouth.
- Scrap AS levels
- Replace Qualifications and Curriculum Authority with independent body like
the Bank of England
- Allow home-school contracts to be a condition of admission
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Allow heads and schools final say over exclusion of disruptive pupils
- Give schools independence over budgets and policies
- State scholarships to create a new type of school
- Charges for abuse of the National Health Service, such as missed
appointments
- Otherwise no extension of charging in the NHS
- Foundation hospitals to have similar freedom to those in Spain
- Recognise benefit to NHS of people contributing from their own funds
- Parenting classes for parents of disruptive children
- Longer, more constructive sentences for persistent young offenders
- Drug treatment for all minors on heroin and cocaine
- New York-style neighbourhood policing
- Lifetime Savings Accounts
- Oppose Labour's suspension of right to buy for council tenants
- Extend right to buy for Housing Association tenants
- Invest the proceeds in building new social housing
- Voluntary Society Bill in first Queen's Speech
- Give voluntary organisations ability to take on government work
- Reduced regulation for care homes
- Recognise people who look after elderly relatives in their own homes
- Allow people to provide for reasonable long-term care costs
- Reduced means-testing for pensioners: pay more income as of right
- Pensioners to choose whether or not to take out an annuity.