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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, September 25, 2024
PRESSURE piled on Labour to drop the two-child benefit cap today after Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was her “purpose” to ensure no child grows up in poverty.
Speaking at her party’s conference, she announced that breakfast clubs will roll out from next April.
She pledged to boost “life chances for children and work choices for parents” and said the first of 3,000 new school-based nurseries will open from next year.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people