modernise the school curriculum,
reform assessment
and create higher-quality training and employment paths by empowering local communities to develop the skills people need.
We will also put employers at the heart of our skills system.
Every child should believe that success belongs to them.
Education has so often been the spark that can light a fire within, transforming life chances.
It is time to light that fire for the whole country.
The last Labour government lifted over half a million children and over a million pensioners out of poverty.
That progress transformed life chances and ensured security in retirement.
The next Labour government will build on that legacy of pursuing opportunity and social justice.
Good work will be the foundation of our approach to tackling poverty and inequality.
We will create more good jobs,
reform employment support,
and make work pay so that many more people benefit from the dignity and purpose of work.
We want to end mass dependence on emergency food parcels, which is a moral scar on our society.
Child poverty has gone up by 700,000 under the Conservatives, with over four million children now growing up in a low-income family.
Last year, a million children experienced destitution.
This not only harms children’s lives now, it damages their future prospects,
and holds back our economic potential as a country.
We will work with the voluntary sector, faith organisations, trade unions, business, devolved and local government, and communities to bring about change.
protecting renters from arbitrary eviction,
slashing fuel poverty,
banning exploitative zero hours contracts,
and improving support to help people get into good work.
Our system of state, private, and workplace pensions provide the basis for security in retirement.
Our pensions review will consider what further steps are needed to improve security in retirement,
as well as to increase productive investment in the UK economy.
Security also means having a secure roof over your head.
That is not the case for too many renting their homes privately.
prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against, empower them to challenge unreasonable rent increases, and take steps to decisively raise standards, including extending ‘Awaab’s Law’ to the private sector.
For far too many leaseholders, the reality of home ownership falls woefully short of the dream they were promised.
The last Labour government made huge strides in ending homelessness.
Under the Conservatives, that progress has been undone, with rough sleepers an all-too-common sight in our towns and cities, and a sharp rise in hidden homelessness.
High-quality early education and childcare is a crucial opportunity to transform life chances.
Too often it is unavailable, or unaffordable.
Supporting children in the early part of their life also means giving parents the flexibility they need to care for their children.
Every child should have a loving, secure home.
as well as strengthening regulation of the children’s social care sector.
Sadly, too often we see families falling through the cracks of public services.
Labour is determined to raise school standards for every child, and ensure they are prepared for the future.
Most children attend schools where the Conservatives are failing to provide the support and teaching that they need.
Our breakfast clubs will support parents through the cost-ofliving crisis
The factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s education is high-quality teaching; but there are shortages of qualified teachers across the country.
support areas that face recruitment challenges,
and tackle retention issues.
Teaching is a hard-earned and hard-learned skill, Labour will work to further raise its status.
School support staff play a vital role in children’s education and development.
Raising school standards starts with early education.
The last Labour government’s promotion of phonics put rocket boosters under the reading and writing ability of a generation of children.
Developing early communication skills is another key foundation for life, with serious knock-on consequences when development is delayed.