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POVERTY and profiteering are damaging children’s chances in education, teachers warned today as they called for a reversal of cruel Tory welfare policies.
A motion moved by the National Education Union at TUC Congress called for the government to “implement a comprehensive child poverty reduction strategy,” which includes increasing benefits in line with inflation and ending the two-child benefit cap and “rape clause.”
NEU president Amanda Martin said: “It cannot be denied that a situation that sees millions of kids in poverty has grown from 2010 onwards.”
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
