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
The next Government must give our children the education they deserve.
- Reverse cuts to schools, colleges and nurseries and increase education spending to five per cent of GDP.
- End child poverty, starting with the removal of the two-child benefit cap and guarantee a free, nutritious school lunch for every pupil.
- An engaging and inclusive curriculum, which embeds anti-racism and guarantees
- all pupils access to a broad range of subjects, including the arts and PE.
- End Government tests in primary schools and overhaul 14-19 assessment to stop the exam factory culture.
- Provide appropriate special needs support quickly and without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Recruit enough teachers and school staff to fill soaring vacancies, by making pay competitive again.
- Abolish Ofsted and replace it with a collaborative and supportive system, focused on giving good advice and feedback to schools.
- Keep teachers, leaders and school staff in the profession by asking us how to tackle unmanageable workloads.
- 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.