Education - Colchester Labour Party

Statement From The Colchester Labour Group – Potential Job Cuts at University of Essex

Colchester Labour Group, notes with great concern the recent open letter from Essex University UCU Anti-casualisation Working Group to Councillor Mark Cory, Will Quince MP, and Bernard Jenkin MP. Whilst the Labour Group understands the difficult financial position the University of Essex is facing, we are extremely concerned at the…

A Letter by Elisa Vasquez-Walters, Chair of Colchester CLP- impact of schools reopening on children’s mental health

As we draw to the end of Mental Health Week it is worth considering what impact the proposed openings of schools will have on the very young children that are being proposed as the first returners. Many of us will have seen the photos from France which shows children sitting…

Colchester Labour’s Statement on the Reopening of Schools

Colchester Labour Group stands with concerned parents, teachers, the National Education Union, NASUWT, the National Association of Head Teachers and the British Medical Association, who believe that the Government has not yet provided an adequate plan for sending our children back to school safely. Like all these groups we believe…

An Open Letter to Councillor Louise McKinlay on childcare provision in Essex after coronavirus