How to use this Manifesto
- Share and discuss it with your fellow educators.
- Share it with parents in your nursery, school or college community.
- Share it with your Parliamentary candidates and ask for their support.
A manifesto for education
- Fund Welsh Government to reverse cuts to schools, colleges and nurseries and increase education spending to the equivalent of five per cent of GDP.
- End child poverty, starting with the removal
of the two-child benefit cap and fund Welsh Government to continue to deliver a guaranteed free, nutritious school lunch for every pupil. - Ensure the changes to the curriculum are engaging and inclusive, and that teachers have access to professional learning to embed anti- racism and guarantee all pupils access to a broad range of subjects, including the arts and PE.
- End assessments in primary schools and ensure the 14-19 assessment culture is inclusive and supports children without increasing workload.
- Fund Welsh Government to ensure it can provide appropriate additional learning needs support quickly and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Recruit enough teachers and school staff to fill soaring vacancies, by ensuring they have enough funding to make pay competitive again.
- Fund a middle tier which is supportive of schools and aids collaboration.
- Keep teachers, leaders, and school staff in the profession by asking us how to tackle unmanageable workloads.
- Fund Welsh Government to increase non- teaching time for professional development, collaboration, and planning, especially for early career teachers.
- Tighter regulation of social media companies to protect children from online harm and prioritise their welfare.
If you value education, vote for education