• Stop children's centres' funding cuts
    Without this funding, two generations are disadvantaged: young parents who want to improve their education and skills, and their children who will also miss out on valuable early years education before age 2.
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    Created by Hannah Staddon
  • Books in the bus stops in London: Bookstops
    Books that you have read, books that seem too old but tell our history, books that you think the next generations should read, why should we keep them isolated from the world? Why not share them with everyone?! In this technological era where everything is moving so fast, where social networks command our daily life, a book can save us and make us comeback to our roots and untangle who we are. This is why this campaign is so important; to have the liberty to read a book that can remind us that there are stories that cannot be forgotten because they represent a part of ourselves.
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    Created by Miguel Marre
  • OPPOSE BASELINE TESTING FOR RECEPTION CHILDREN
    The scoring of children in their first weeks on entry to their new schools: -Is Damaging for children and inappropriate practice at an important transition time -Will undermine the current methods of assessment and practice used in early years settings -Will not improve the quality of schools -Is not a reliable source of data -Will lead to a further formalisation of learning in the early years and downgrading of play -Transfers funding from school budgets to private companies -Prevents the local education authority from having an active role in overviewing and monitoring assessments in the early years across the county and places this role directly into the hands of the private assessment providers and the DFE. We call on the Borough Council to write to the Secretary of State for Education calling for the removal of Baseline Assessment and the retention of the existing Early Years Foundation Stage Profile in our schools. We also call on the Borough Council to support any school that chooses not to implement the Baseline assessment. Reference: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35549611
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    Created by Andy Costa
  • UK Government To Force All Supermarkets To Give Unsold Food To The Needy
    There is far to much food waste when we have people going hungry. All stores should be required to donate unwanted food to charities and to food banks. It should apply to any supermarket with a footprint of 400 square metres or larger. If companies flout the law they are to incur fines. Supermarkets are to sign a donation deal with charities, which will be able to increase the quality and diversity of food that they currently get and distribute. In terms of nutritional balance, they currently have a deficit of meat and a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. This will hopefully allow food-banks to push a fresh source of nutritional quality food to people and families in need.
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    Created by Cllr Sue Sampson
  • Save Design and Technology at Nottingham Trent Uni
    Design and Technology is a subject that is particularly struggling to find teachers. There are only two universities in England that run an undergraduate course for trainee D&T teachers but now NTU want to bring that down to one. If that happens then the amount of people applying for teacher training will reduce. The university seem to think that those who apply at NTU will just transfer their application to the remaining university course. This is simply not the case. There are 4 people on the course currently who are there because of the location and reputation and would not have been in a position to just go somewhere else. The course is also an award winning course with 2 of the lecturers achieving teacher trainer of the year in 2014 & 2015 as well as another lecturer being nominated for a commendation this year. Design and Technology is still a requirement on the national curriculum at Key Stage 3 but not further on. Without the training for teachers the runs the risk of the subject being taught inefficiently and then possibly disappearing altogether in the future. If the subject isn't being carried on beyond Key Stage 3 it runs the risk of having a knock-on effect on product design, engineering, furniture design and fashion (just to mention only a few). I'm a mature student who put their personal life on hold and quit a good full time job in order to go and train. I didn't have another way of getting in to teaching as I had already attempted university study a different way. Being settled where I am having a university close was a wonderful thing. There are people in similar positions as me and by closing the course they're taking that opportunity away. Please help us save the course and in turn save the future of Design and Technology.
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    Created by Jessie Clark
  • Hands Free Dorset
    I believe that restraining techniques are being overused by teachers and staff in schools and academies that claim to be places of learning for children and teenagers with BESD (Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties) too many schools are using restraining practices as a lazy way of getting what they want, leaving the children they restrain mentally and sometimes physically scarred and completely turned off to education with no recourse for the child or parents to take. This campaign is for schools and academies that are using restraint techniques to have to report by law to an independent body within the Local Education Authority, so each case is investigated and reoffending schools, academies, Teachers and/or individual Staff members are stopped from using restraint techniques when unjustifiable and prosecuted for assault of a child in their care. This campaign is to gather signatures of support so that the MP’s in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole recognise the issue raised by this campaign and take action in Dorset for all Schools and Academies to become Hands-Free places of learning.
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    Created by Kevin Tatchell
  • Getting the right support in place for disabled students before they START a university course
    A lot of disabled students get support at university for all different reasons whether it be physical, mental health or a learning need but unfortunately what often happens is that students don't receive this support until they are 6 months or even in some case a year into their first year of study. As you can imagine this can be very stressful, upsetting and can have a massive impact on the student and their ability to do the degree. Must people just get on with studying, while others who can't do anything without the support have to catch up once the support is approved and put in place. Unfortunately this has happened to me this year. It is now the end of January and I still haven’t got all the support in place need in order for me to even start studying. So it looks like I’m going to have to catch up on all my work between now and May 2016. Every person I have spoken that has applied for disability support has also not received a mentor, equipment or maybe a tutor that they need to study until after they have started their degree course. It’s amazing we have a society that supports people with different needs but unless this issue changes people with a disability will struggle to complete a degree course. Please join me in getting Justin Tomlinson to change the time scales and deadlines for disabled support allowance, student finance and make sure people receive and are set up for study before they even start their degree course.
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    Created by Marion Winship
  • Please make well-being part of our national curriculum
    Our children are becoming increasingly unwell physically, mentally and emotionally and are in dire need of adequate education in this area. If we want to prosper as a nation, we have to make learning about personal, social and environmental well-being as important as learning to read and write. Only healthy people can create a healthy nation and our children are the leaders and positive change-makers of tomorrow.
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    Created by Milan Shah
  • Keep concessionary charges for disabled people in Cambridgeshire
    This is important because this will stop disabled people from accessing the library in the way they do at the moment. The decision was made with no consultation. Due to the nature of some disabilities some people cannot read books, but benefit from literature in different ways. The charges will mean people will start having to pay to use a service that is available free for people without disabilities in the form of books.
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    Created by Timothy Sykes
  • What the Frack! Regular referendums. Let the UK public vote for their future.
    Members of the public find it difficult to support a political party 100%. Our system is out of date, our MPs out of touch, the public go unheard. We agree with points made by the Lib Dems, the Conservatives, Labour, the Green Party, the SNP etc and sometimes we disagree with them all. Either way we can't communicate with the government effectively. The system needs to work for us all but instead it's dusty, nobody really understands it or cares to sort it out with any long term vision. We need to start again. Simplify. Direct questions, direct answers. If regular referendums were to take place, the public are truly part of the process, allowing us to demonstrate what we care about, that we're united and want to invest in the future of this land and it's people. Less moaning and more doing, having a proactive and fair say, feeling satisfied that the decisions are being made and supported by the majority of the UK. Let the UK public vote for their future. This Kingdom can then begin to feel proud and respected, and most importantly, united.
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    Created by Tezia Perret
  • Defibrillators in all schools
    They can be bought for £1,100 including training 8 members of staff. I have helped to raise funds for local schools to install one but surely the councils should have a duty of care. This is life saving equipment
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    Created by sharon kemp
  • James Clerk Maxwell for RBS Banknote
    James Clerk Maxwell stands beside Einstein and Newton in the trinity of physicists who explained how the universe works. The other two are global superstars, but Maxwell is barely known in his own country, Scotland. To celebrate a great man and encourage future generations to take risks and think big, Maxwell should be the face on the next RBS banknote. The greatest Scotsman to ever live deserves to be a household name.
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    Created by Rattle Magazine