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This year’s Labour Party Conference runs from Sunday 23rd to Wednesday 26th September and is being held at the ACC in Liverpool. For the first time in several years, SEA is holding a fringe meeting at conference. It will be at 6.00 pm on Sunday 23rd in Concourse Room 4 of the main conference centre.
The theme of the meeting will be “The National Education Service – from Vision to Reality”. Our speakers will be Melissa Benn (SEA Vice President), Emma Hardy MP and Louise Regan (former NUT President). For those in need, refreshments will be served!
As far as education goes, the main focus at conference will be the report of the National Policy Forum’s Education Commission – you can read that here – NPF Education report 2018.
I think that many members will find this document to be very thin in terms of concrete policy proposals. The aim of our fringe meeting will be to address this gap and to explore what specific actions will be needed to make the NES a reality. We would encourage all SEA members and supporters to raise the need for a more detailed and robust plan for the NES in CLPs and union branches.
At our Executive meeting in Leeds on 15th September, we will be discussing how we can work at Conference to this end. This meeting will be at the St George’s Centre, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3DL from 11.00 to 4.00. All SEA members are welcome.
