Don't like the sound of lengthening school days and shortening holidays. The government wants to make it easier for parents to work. Households with one worker might turn into two-worker households, and single non-working parents might be able to work. This will cause growth, more tax, and less welfare payments.
However, this is going to cost money to implement (i.e. people without kids are going to be subsidising people who do have kids some more), there's got to be a utility cost to children who are deprived of time to climb trees (think there's probably some kind of Laffer curve effect going on with education, the optimum is somewhere between zero hours and every waking hour). Single-earner households will be competing in the housing market with more dual-earners who can kick themselves in the balls that little bit harder when it comes to what they're prepared to pay.
There are probably easier gains to be made first. Like building lots of houses. Spent some time thinking about this today. How about relaxing planning laws for super-eco-low-impact-houses, maybe even on greenbelts? If the house isn't going to contribute to flooding, can pretty much generate its own electricity (so what if you've got to actually plan when to use the washing machine), composting toilet, etc? What about access roads? Well if that's a scarce resource, how about rationing it with a local congestion charge? This will encourage walking the kids to school, getting stuff delivered from the supermarket, working from home, etc. Also wonder whether modern manufacturing could make houses cheaper, it seems fairly strange that all new-builds look very similar, yet each requires a huge amount of labour to construct. Perhaps there's some red tape that ensures that has to happen?
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