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TEENAGERS CALL FOR EMA TO BE RESTORED ON GCSE RESULTS DAY

Thursday, August 25, 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 [...]

SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT SLAMS GOVT “RUSHED” DECISION ON EMA

Tuesday, July 19, 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 [...]

EMA REPLACEMENT COULD BREACH EQUALITY LAW ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT’S OWN REPORT

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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According to the Government’s own Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) into the EMA Replacement Scheme by the Department for Education, the Save EMA campaign has discovered that Michael Gove has u-turned yet again on this policy due to legal action, this time posed by the Equality Act. One of the main argument made by the Government [...]

The Government’s Replacement for EMA Will Not Work

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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This week Michael Gove announced the Government’s plans to replace the £550 million education maintenance allowance (EMA) with a £180m bursary scheme. There was a small victory for the Save EMA campaign this week as the government listened to our ‘A Deal’s A Deal’ campaign, which threatened a legal challenge, unless the government provided support [...]

We’ve won a battle in the war to Save EMA

Monday, March 28, 2011

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Today Save EMA has won our A Deals A Deal campaign and forced the Government to pay EMA to those who are currently recieving £30 a week in EMA next year. You can see James Mills from Save EMA respond straight after the decision below to the BBC. However, although we have won this battle, [...]