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28 August 2019
Notts child abuse scandal: Socialist Party demands action programme to prevent future cases
The decades-long Nottinghamshire child abuse scandal and cover-up shows the need to fight public service cuts and for a society that values people, not private profit.
14 August 2019
Health workers strike against £2,000 loss of pay
Health visitors in Lincolnshire have been on strike against the Tory county council.
14 August 2019
Leeds estate residents push back private development
Leeds Socialist Party members have been campaigning alongside the Little London Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) against a 'mega-block' proposed for this community on the outskirts of Leeds city centre.
19 June 2019
Harrogate academy workers strike against closure
A lively picket of staff at Harrogate's Grove Academy, a unit educating vulnerable secondary school pupils, took place on Thursday 13 June despite the pouring rain, writes Kevin Pattison, Leeds Socialist Party.
12 June 2019
Terrible child murders linked to cuts
The terrible murders of two young children in Northamptonshire have been published in reports called 'serious case reviews'.
5 June 2019
Protest against Send education funding cuts
Particularly powerful were the children who spoke and demanded a decent education for them and their siblings.
22 May 2019
Day of action against cuts to special needs education
It is a measure of a society's progress as to how it treats its most vulnerable members. Applying that measure to special educational needs funding - we are heading back to the Stone Age.
1 May 2019
Valentine victory: School strike beats council cuts
Teachers and support staff at Valentine Primary School are celebrating an important victory
1 May 2019
Universal Credit disaster behind foodbank rise
Universal Credit is being blamed for the record rise in the use of foodbanks as families required them to provide 14 million meals in the last 12 months.
17 April 2019
Labour councils must act now to save our schools!
A new Ofsted report shows that educational support for vulnerable children is failing. The report outlines how thousands of children are being taught in alternative provision, often in very poor conditions with no qualified teachers.
3 April 2019
Poor doors, segregated playgrounds
Haven't the Tories and Blairites got enough to answer for without barring poor children from playgrounds? An investigation by the Guardian has showed yet another side of life under the 'Nasty Party' and its shadows on the right of Labour.
3 April 2019
Working families in poverty: fund homes and childcare
In the UK, 2.9 million children from working families are now living in poverty, reports the Department for Work and Pensions. And more than a third of babies are living below the poverty line, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
20 March 2019
Midlands machine bearing makers launch all-out strike
"There's only so much meat on the bone. NSK has taken so much off us it's now passed the bone and is into the marrow!"
20 March 2019
Hackney school bus workers walk out
Unite the Union members in passenger services at Hackney Council walked out on 19 March in their fight for a payment in recognition of the fact that they undertake split shifts
16 January 2019
Surrey: save our children's centres
Council cuts: Surrey has just concluded a consultation over £250 million of cuts
28 November 2018
Scrap the Tories' Universal Credit now!
New Tory Department for Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, of Windrush-scandal notoriety, hailed Universal Credit (UC) as a "tremendous force for good". It's been so good that in her constituency, food bank use went up by 87% in Hastings in the year following UC roll-out.
21 November 2018
75,000 kids in foster care - and counting: end cuts and for-profit care
"Fostering sector ripe for consolidation... fostering is a growth market..." These were the thoughts of the Financial Times back in 2013. Translation? Children going into care are seen as a profit opportunity by capitalist vultures.
7 November 2018
Private companies are making millions treating NHS patients in psychiatric hospitals that often fail to provide decent and safe care.
24 October 2018
Blairites plan to expand their very own academy chain
You would think that Labour politicians would be in favour of running schools that meet children's needs, unpolluted by the pursuit of profit and accountable to the communities that uses them. Well, these values are not held by Blairites who are at odds with Corbyn's plans to scrap the semi-privatised academy schools system.
24 October 2018
Universal Credit could trap women in violent relationships
The introduction of Universal Credit, under which families can lose £200 a month, has rightly provoked outrage
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