20 October 2021

Hackney children's centres - more education cuts are devastating

After years of behind-the-scenes cuts, the Labour council in Hackney, east London, is now cutting education services to the bone

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13 October 2021

Hackney: Stop closure of children's centres

On 8 October, over 50 parents, children and members of public sector union Unison protested to demand that Fernbank and Hillside children's centres in Hackney, east London, be kept open

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8 September 2021

Schools funding crisis fails vulnerable children

Schools face a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding crisis, a £1 billion shortfall in funding

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28 July 2021

Tories and Labour fail on child poverty

Vast inequalities in the UK are predicted to worsen during the long, post-pandemic recovery, entrenching child poverty across the UK

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7 July 2021

Exhibition: What next for the statue of slave trader, Edward Colston?

No longer standing tall: A current exhibition asks: "What next for the statue of slave trader, Edward Colston?" A year after the battered and graffiti-covered statue was hoisted out of the River Avon, it now lies supine - and still toppled - in a harbourside museum

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7 July 2021

Fund the measures needed to stop the Covid spread in schools

The increasing number of Covid cases among pupils, and the need for school 'bubbles' to isolate, means that over 370,000 pupils are in isolation and having to learn at home

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23 June 2021

Book review: Shuggie Bain

'An unsentimental depiction of the brutality and inhumanity of capitalism': 'Shuggie Bain', written by Douglas Stuart, is a novel that at times makes the reader stop and reflect

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9 June 2021

Fight for the funding our schools and colleges need

The Treasury refused to foot the bill that Kevan Collins deemed necessary

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19 May 2021

Spycops inquiry continues to expose historic attacks on democratic rights

A second round of hearings in the supposedly 'public' Undercover Policing Inquiry took place from 21 April to 13 May, covering the period from the anti-Vietnam war protests in 1968 to the Anti-Nazi League in 1977.

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5 May 2021

Police attempt to intimidate Newcastle protesters

I was arrested at one of the 'Kill the bill' protests at Grey's Monument in Newcastle for trying to help a fellow protester

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5 May 2021

Covid, capitalism and mental health

Covid poses the "greatest threat to mental health since the second world war", according to the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

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7 April 2021

Childcare in crisis: A socialist solution

Over the last year, Covid-19 has magnified the vast deep-rooted inequalities in the capitalist system. One problem which has been felt most acutely by working women is that of childcare.

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31 March 2021

No start for life

Tory MP Andrea Leadsom announced her 'Start for Life' proposal last week. Her plan to establish a 'new service' for children up to age two is being trumpeted as an innovative service

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31 March 2021

Football abuse scandal: Reclaim the game for justice and democracy

Four years after the explosive and powerful testimony of ex-footballer Andy Woodward, an independent review into child sexual abuse in football between 1970-2005 has been published by the Football Association (FA).

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10 March 2021

Workers respond to 'back to school'

A mockery of everything we've done: Schools opened on Monday 8 March, and we don't know if we are inhaling or exhaling. Here we go again - bubbles, disinfectant, and social distancing in tight spaces.

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24 February 2021

W. Sussex children's centres on the chopping block

Conservative West Sussex County Council is planning to axe 32 children's centres and twelve youth centres

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24 February 2021

"I'm here to fight for the future education of children in Hackney"

Teaching assistants (TAs) in Hackney, east London took strike action against redundancies on 10-12 February

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17 February 2021

Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills

One in three women will have an abortion before the age of 45. The abortion pill is a safe and uncomplicated medical procedure carried out in the first ten weeks of pregnancy.

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3 February 2021

Workplace news in brief

Workers in two separate industrial disputes affecting schools in east London will take three days of strike action in February.

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3 February 2021

Children in care: Privatisation is not working

Many people would think that children, who are in the care of a local authority, would be safe, well cared for and free from the risks of sexual or criminal exploitation

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