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TEENAGERS CALL FOR EMA TO BE RESTORED ON GCSE RESULTS DAY

25 August 2011

The Government risk making today’s GCSE winners next years NEETs by scrapping EMA. On the day hundreds of thousands of the poorest teenagers receive their GCSE’s results they will also be uncertain of their future now the scheme has been scrapped. As 90% of pupils on Free School Meals go on to receive EMA, the [...]

COULD CUTTING EMA HELP LEAD TO MORE TEENAGE RIOTS?

8 August 2011

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The Save EMA campaign has warned previously that an increase in youth crime could be seen if the EMA is abolished, as some cuts can help cause crime. Talking to Sky News today, Diane Abbot MP and many others on other media platforms, have said today that many teenagers rioting have been spurred on by the abolition of EMA. Now, Save [...]

SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT SLAMS GOVT “RUSHED” DECISION ON EMA

19 July 2011

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The Education Select Committee’s report out today (covered by BBC here) responding to the Government’s abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) has poured criticism on the Government’s “rushed” actions in ending the scheme and also rubbished the argument’s put forward by the government for scrapping the scheme. It goes further recommending that instead of abolishing [...]

Save EMA supports today’s strikes

30 June 2011

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Remember when… teenagers on EMA, teachers, civil servants, social workers, care assistants, bin men, education officers, school support staff, librarians, social workers, nurses, doctors, lollipop ladies, and disabled people crashed the stock market, wiped out banks, took billions in bonuses and paid no tax? No, we cant either… That’s why Save EMA supports the strikes!

The Government “Misrepresented the facts” when deciding to scrap EMA

9 June 2011

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Yesterday the Government’s whole argument for abolishing EMA was blown out of the water. The Education Select Committee in Parliament who are currently looking into the decision to the Government’s decision to abolish EMA received evidence from Thomas Spielhofer of the National Foundation for Educational Research. He was the lead researcher of the report Barriers [...]