Labour commits to hire 6,500 additional specialist teachers.
“Labour will recruit an additional 6,500 new expert teachers.”
Labour will prioritise teacher recruitment in shortage subjects and improve teacher retention.
“We will get more teachers into shortage subjects, support areas that face recruitment challenges, and tackle retention i…”
Labour will review teacher bursary allocation and retention payment structures.
“The way bursaries are allocated, and the structure of retention payments, will be reviewed.”
Labour will update the Early Career Framework and require all new teachers to have or work towards qualified teacher status.
“We will update the Early Career Framework, maintaining its grounding in evidence, and ensure any new teacher entering th…”
Labour will establish a teacher training entitlement guaranteeing ongoing professional development.
“We will introduce a new Teacher Training Entitlement to ensure teachers stay up to date on best practice with continuing…”
Labour will restore the School Support Staff Negotiating Body to address recruitment and retention challenges.
“Labour will reinstate the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, which will help address the acute recruitment and reten…”
Labour will enhance maths teaching quality in early years and primary education.
“We will do the same for numeracy, improving the quality of maths teaching across nurseries and primary schools.”
Labour will fund evidence-based language development programmes in primary schools.
“Labour will fund evidence-based early-language interventions in primary schools, so that every child can find their voic…”
Labour will establish a mentoring programme to develop school leadership capacity.
“Labour will create a new Excellence in Leadership Programme, a mentoring framework that expands the capacity of headteac…”
Labour will create regional teams to support school improvement and share best practices.
“Labour will introduce new Regional Improvement Teams, to enhance school-to-school support, and spread best practice.”
Labour will replace single-grade school inspections with detailed report cards showing school performance.
“We will enhance the inspection regime by replacing a single headline grade with a new report card system telling parents…”
Labour will include Multi-Academy Trusts in inspections and conduct annual reviews of safeguarding, attendance, and off-rolling.
“We will also bring Multi-Academy Trusts into the inspection system and introduce a new annual review of safeguarding, at…”
Labour will conduct a comprehensive curriculum and assessment review involving educators, parents, and employers.
“Labour will launch an expert-led review of curriculum and assessment, working with school staff, parents and employers t…”
Labour will improve SEND provision through enhanced mainstream school inclusivity and specialist special school support.
“Labour will take a community-wide approach, improving inclusivity and expertise in mainstream schools, as well as ensuri…”
Labour will require schools to cooperate with local authorities on admissions, SEND inclusion, and place planning.
“We will make sure admissions decisions account for the needs of communities and require all schools to co-operate with t…”
Labour will fund free breakfast clubs in every primary school accessible to all children.
“Labour will fund free breakfast clubs in every primary school, accessible to all children.”
Labour will limit the number of branded uniform and PE kit items that schools can require to reduce costs for families.
“We will also bring down the cost of school by limiting the number of branded items of uniform and PE kit that schools ca…”
Labour will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school to offer early support to young people.
“Labour will provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school, so every young person has access t…”
Labour will establish Young Futures Hubs in every community offering open-access drop-in mental health support for children and young people.
“This will complement our plan for Young Futures Hubs, which will make sure every community has an open-access hub for ch…”
Labour will guarantee training, an apprenticeship, or help finding work for all 18- to 21-year-olds.
“Labour will address this by bringing forward a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education. And we will guarantee train…”
Labour will establish Skills England to coordinate business, training providers, unions, and government to develop a highly trained workforce.
“We will establish Skills England to bring together business, training providers and unions with national and local gover…”
Skills England will work with the Migration Advisory Committee to ensure training aligns with labour market needs.
“Skills England will formally work with the Migration Advisory Committee to make sure training in England accounts for th…”
Labour will devolve adult skills funding to Combined Authorities to give local leaders greater control over skills development.
“And we are committed to devolving adult skills funding to Combined Authorities, empowering local leaders to have greater…”
Labour will transform Further Education colleges into specialist Technical Excellence Colleges working with businesses and unions to provide job opportunities.
“Labour will transform Further Education colleges into specialist Technical Excellence Colleges. These colleges will work…”
Labour will replace the Apprenticeships Levy with a flexible Growth and Skills Levy, with Skills England consulting on eligible courses.
“Labour will also reform the Conservatives' broken Apprenticeships Levy. The current rigid rules ignore vital skills and …”
Labour will develop a post-16 skills strategy integrating further and higher education and strengthening regulation.
“To better integrate further and higher education, and ensure high-quality teaching, Labour's post-16 skills strategy wil…”
Labour will improve access to universities and raise teaching standards.
“We will act to improve access to universities and raise teaching standards.”
Labour will work with universities to create a secure future for higher education and support students and the economy.
“Labour will act to create a secure future for higher education and the opportunities it creates across the UK. We will w…”
Labour will implement a creative industries sector plan to create jobs and accelerate growth in film, music, gaming, and other creative sectors.
“Labour will implement our creative industries sector plan as part of our Industrial Strategy, creating good jobs and acc…”
Labour will work with the BBC and public service broadcasters to support the creative economy through commissioning distinctively British content.
“We will work constructively with the BBC and our other public service broadcasters so they continue to inform, educate a…”
Labour will support children to study creative or vocational subjects until age 16 and ensure accountability measures reflect this.
“Labour will support children to study a creative or vocational subject until they are 16, and ensure accountability meas…”
Labour will protect time for physical education and support grassroots clubs to expand access to sport.
“We will get more children active by protecting time for physical education, and supporting the role grassroots clubs pla…”
Labour will require publicly funded national museums and galleries to increase loans from their collections to communities.
“Labour will improve access to cultural assets by requiring publicly funded national museums and galleries to increase th…”
Labour will launch a National Music Education Network providing information on music courses and classes.
“We will also launch a new National Music Education Network – a one-stop shop with information on courses and classes for…”
Labour will introduce new consumer protections on ticket resales to protect fans.
“Labour will put fans back at the heart of events by introducing new consumer protections on ticket resales.”
Labour will deliver international sporting events and seek new opportunities to inspire talent and promote healthy living.
“From the Men's UEFA European Football Championship to the ICC Women's T20 World Cup to the Invictus Games, Labour will d…”
Labour will reform football governance to protect clubs and give fans greater say in how they are run.
“Labour is committed to making Britain the best place in the world to be a football fan. We will reform football governan…”
Labour will introduce a Football Governance Bill establishing an independent regulator to ensure financial sustainability of football clubs.
“We will introduce a Football Governance Bill, which will establish an independent regulator to ensure financial sustaina…”
Labour will prevent a closed league of select clubs from being separated from the English football pyramid.
“We will never allow a closed league of select clubs to be siphoned off from the English football pyramid.”
Labour will enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010.
“Labour will ensure no matter whatever your background, you can thrive, and therefore we will enact the socio-economic du…”
Labour will strengthen rights to equal pay and protections from maternity, menopause discrimination, and sexual harassment for working women.
“Our plan to Make Work Pay will transform the lives of working women, including by strengthening rights to equal pay and …”
Labour will take action to reduce the gender pay gap.
“And Labour will take action to reduce the gender pay gap, building on the legacy of Barbara Castle's Equal Pay Act.”
Labour will introduce a Race Equality Act to enshrine equal pay rights for ethnic minorities and strengthen protections against discrimination.
“Labour will introduce a landmark Race Equality Act, to enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and…”
Labour will reverse the downgrade of monitoring antisemitic and Islamophobic hate.
“Labour will also reverse the Conservatives' decision to downgrade the monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate.”
Labour will introduce the full right to equal pay for disabled people.
“We will introduce the full right to equal pay for disabled people.”
Labour will introduce disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting for large employers.
“Building on gender pay gap reporting, we will introduce disability and ethnicity pay gap reporting for large employers.”
Labour will improve employment support and access to reasonable adjustments for disabled people.
“We will support disabled people to work by improving employment support and access to reasonable adjustments.”
Labour will tackle the Access to Work backlog and allow people to try jobs without immediate benefit reassessment.
“We will also tackle the Access to Work backlog and make sure people can try out a job without fear of an immediate benef…”
Labour will make all existing strands of hate crime an aggravated offence to protect LGBT+ and disabled people.
“Labour will protect LGBT+ and disabled people by making all existing strands of hate crime an aggravated offence.”
Labour will deliver a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices while protecting freedom to explore sexual orientation and gender identity.
“So-called conversion therapy is abuse – there is no other word for it – so Labour will finally deliver a full trans-incl…”