1) HELP FOR FAMILIES. Sure Start has been protected, and beefed up with 4,200 extra health visitors. There are now 260,000 free nursery places for three and four-year olds, for those in the most deprived homes. Also, the Prime Minister has announced nearly half a billion pounds to tackle problem families - on a payment-by-results basis.
2) EDUCATION. Nationally, the Pupil Premium will rise to £1.25 billion pounds next year, for educating the poorest pupils. In Harlow, for example, schools are using an extra £1 million pounds this year, to help pupils on free school meals with Maths and English - all thanks to the Pupil Premium.
3) HELP FOR THE YOUNG UNEMPLOYED. Last year, apprenticeships were boosted by over 50% to 442,700, rising across all age groups. This year, the Work Contract will create at least 100,000 extra work experience places, and 160,000+ job subsidies for young people, to help get them off the dole, and into proper sustainable jobs. Evidence now shows that half of under-25 year-olds are coming off benefits within three months.
4) SHIELDING THE POOR FROM THE RISING COST OF LIVING. For those still on benefits, the Government is trying to protect them from soaring prices. To this end, welfare payments were uprated by 5.2% in the Autumn Statement last year. In the longer term, the Universal Credit will also make sure that it always pays to work, even in a part-time job for just a few hours a week.
5) LOWER TAXES FOR LOWER EARNERS. The Government has started to rebalance the tax system, to genuinely help the poor. For example, some taxes have increased, like capital gains tax and the new annual Bank Levy (which raises more each year than Labour raised in their one-off ‘bonus tax'). But at the same time, other taxes are coming down:
6) SOCIAL HOMES FOR LOCAL PEOPLE. There are at least two major breakthroughs on housing. The first is giving Councils powers to restrict their social waiting list to families who are genuinely local : “Harlow Housing for Harlow People.” The second crucial change, is the comprehensive revamping of the Right to Buy - with a better discount for tenants who want to buy their home, and new rules saying that all cash generated will be used to build extra social housing. Moreover, Social Housing Rent will no longer be appropriated by the Treasury and can be kept by local Councils: Harlow Housing Money for Harlow People.
7) HELPING FAMILIES WITH THEIR MORTGAGE. The Government’s difficult decisions on the economy have kept interest rates low. This has helped families with mortgages at a time when household budgets are very tight - keeping their bills to a minimum.
8) SUPPORT FOR THE BIG SOCIETY. In 2012, more and more resources will start to
flow into Big Society projects. In the years ahead, the Big Society Bank expects to pour at least £600m of funds from dormant bank accounts and elsewhere into charities and social enterprises. There will also be the chance for communities to bid to run local services, and for civil servants to transform their services into mutuals and co-operatives.
9) A GENEROUS RISE IN PENSIONS. This April, the Basic State pension will rise by 5.2%. This is the largest cash rise in pensions EVER - more than £5+ extra each and every week. The Second State Pension will also rise generously.
10) INCREASE IN INTERNATIONAL AID. Over the next four years, British aid will help to get 11 million children into school, vaccinate more children against preventable diseases than there are people in the whole of England, and stop 250,000 newborn babies dying needlessly.
P.S. You can read more HERE.
2) EDUCATION. Nationally, the Pupil Premium will rise to £1.25 billion pounds next year, for educating the poorest pupils. In Harlow, for example, schools are using an extra £1 million pounds this year, to help pupils on free school meals with Maths and English - all thanks to the Pupil Premium.
3) HELP FOR THE YOUNG UNEMPLOYED. Last year, apprenticeships were boosted by over 50% to 442,700, rising across all age groups. This year, the Work Contract will create at least 100,000 extra work experience places, and 160,000+ job subsidies for young people, to help get them off the dole, and into proper sustainable jobs. Evidence now shows that half of under-25 year-olds are coming off benefits within three months.
4) SHIELDING THE POOR FROM THE RISING COST OF LIVING. For those still on benefits, the Government is trying to protect them from soaring prices. To this end, welfare payments were uprated by 5.2% in the Autumn Statement last year. In the longer term, the Universal Credit will also make sure that it always pays to work, even in a part-time job for just a few hours a week.
5) LOWER TAXES FOR LOWER EARNERS. The Government has started to rebalance the tax system, to genuinely help the poor. For example, some taxes have increased, like capital gains tax and the new annual Bank Levy (which raises more each year than Labour raised in their one-off ‘bonus tax'). But at the same time, other taxes are coming down:
- One million low-paid workers have been taken out of paying income tax altogether, helping the lowest paid.
- Fuel duty is now at least 10 pence cheaper, for every single litre of petrol and diesel, than it would have been under Labour. In cash terms, this will save an ordinary family £144 this year.
- Scrapping Labour's tax on jobs. Gordon Brown planned to increase National Insurance by 1% for both employers and employees, threatening jobs and small businesses. The Coalition stopped it.
6) SOCIAL HOMES FOR LOCAL PEOPLE. There are at least two major breakthroughs on housing. The first is giving Councils powers to restrict their social waiting list to families who are genuinely local : “Harlow Housing for Harlow People.” The second crucial change, is the comprehensive revamping of the Right to Buy - with a better discount for tenants who want to buy their home, and new rules saying that all cash generated will be used to build extra social housing. Moreover, Social Housing Rent will no longer be appropriated by the Treasury and can be kept by local Councils: Harlow Housing Money for Harlow People.
7) HELPING FAMILIES WITH THEIR MORTGAGE. The Government’s difficult decisions on the economy have kept interest rates low. This has helped families with mortgages at a time when household budgets are very tight - keeping their bills to a minimum.
8) SUPPORT FOR THE BIG SOCIETY. In 2012, more and more resources will start to
flow into Big Society projects. In the years ahead, the Big Society Bank expects to pour at least £600m of funds from dormant bank accounts and elsewhere into charities and social enterprises. There will also be the chance for communities to bid to run local services, and for civil servants to transform their services into mutuals and co-operatives.
9) A GENEROUS RISE IN PENSIONS. This April, the Basic State pension will rise by 5.2%. This is the largest cash rise in pensions EVER - more than £5+ extra each and every week. The Second State Pension will also rise generously.
10) INCREASE IN INTERNATIONAL AID. Over the next four years, British aid will help to get 11 million children into school, vaccinate more children against preventable diseases than there are people in the whole of England, and stop 250,000 newborn babies dying needlessly.
P.S. You can read more HERE.
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