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23 May 2012
Back to work? How the system fails the unemployed
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show a slight fall in unemployment. But behind that headline are trends that indicate the impact of the Con-Dems' cuts.
23 May 2012
'They refuse to help kids who need extra support': Angry parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) met in New Cross, south London recently to start forming a campaign group
23 April 2012
Hundreds of Liverpool Sure Start parents demonstrate against cuts
Liverpool Sure Start parents and children came together to demand that Liverpool City Council hear their reaction to the proposed 53% cuts to children centre services
Kirklees Sure Start children centres lobby Kirklees council's budget meeting, photo Huddersfield Socialist Party
7 March 2012
Kirklees marches to save child centres
Around 100 angry parents and their children demonstrated through the streets of Huddersfield on Saturday 3 March against Kirklees council's proposals to mothball half of the 32 children's centres, writes Mike Forster.
6 February 2012
All 39 Sure Start centres in Manchester have been saved following a mammoth year-long battle by parents and staff against the council
1 February 2012
David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, has called for the 'smacking ban' to be repealed. He claims his constituents back this, blaming lack of parental control as a factor in last summer's riots
Chestnut Grove School in Balham, Wandsworth, south London
25 January 2012
Haringey parents say: No to academies!
Primary school parents in Haringey, north London, are in the front line of the battle against the Con-Dems' destruction of our education, writes Paul Gerrard, National Union of Teachers.
25 January 2012
Kirklees parents say 'save our children's centres!'
Towards the end of last year, the Labour-led Kirklees council in Yorkshire announced a consultation over the future of 32 Sure Start centres, writes Mike Forster.
23 November 2011
Earlier this year Coventry's Labour-led council proposed to remove £1 million from the annual £1.8 million budget for day care at Sure Start centres in the city, writes Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
26 October 2011
Free schools - Freedom to privatise education
In September, the first 24 of the Coalition's new 'free schools' opened. Tory schools minister Michael Gove claims that they will end a 'state monopoly' in education and give 'freedom' to parents...
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