According to this morning’s Daily Mirror, Labour’s new Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Tristram Hunt MP, has strongly hinted that if Labour are elected in the 2015 General Election he “wants” to Save EMA, and reverse the Coalition Government’s decision to abolish the scheme. In the interview in today’s paper, the Daily Mirror’s Political [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 1, 2012
Today Ken Livingstone, the Labour candidate for London mayor, has pledged to reinstate the education maintenance allowance in the capital if he is elected in May. Mr Livingstone has been a long standing supporter of the Save EMA campaign, personally endorsing the campaign over a year ago (as seen below): Students in sixth forms or further education colleges [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Save EMA campaign in responding to the government’s new plans to allow firms and charities to bid for a payment-by-results scheme to try to get “Neet” teenagers into work or training, has pointed out that this money is similar to the amount that should have been spent on EMA. The government’s plan on 16 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 30, 2011
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!
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Save EMA has an open letter in the Guardian newspaper this morning calling on the Chancellor George Osborne to reverse his decision to scrap the EMA in his budget next week. It is signed by 10 of the leading economists in the UK. This is the letter in full: We, the undersigned economists, support the Save EMA campaign [...]
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Monday, October 28, 2013
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