Labour North West

Welcome to Labour in the North West

Labour North West covers Cheshire, Greater Manchester,Lancashire, Merseyside and parts of Cumbria.

The Coalition Government’s education cuts programme 

The Coalition Government’s Secretary of State for Education has delivered a hammer blow to thousands of children, parents and teachers in the North West.

Tory MP Michael Gove’s announcement on Monday, July 5, means that 110 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects in the North West have been stopped.

The BSF cuts will have a massive impact on schools in Cheshire and Merseyside (57), Cumbria (6), Lancashire (20) and Greater Manchester (27).

A further 21 BSF projects have been marked ‘for discussion’.

"Depriving children of much-needed new schools is unnecessary and unfair. The Tory-Liberal coalition seems determined to make children bear the brunt of their cuts.

"In a recession, making sure children have first-class opportunities is more important than ever. "This is a short-sighted, regressive decision that will have a devastating impact on children in Wigan and across the North West."

"Building Schools for the Future was a once-in-a-generation chance to transform the whole local fabric of education—of secondary education, special schools and vocational learning, too.

"The freezing of the programme is a hammer blow for many hundreds of thousands of children, parents, teachers and governors who will now not get the transformed new school they were promised."