Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainAbout Rebooting BritainFind out more about this site and why I created it.Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainReplace SATs with teacher assessmentIn a 2018 National Education Union survey of primary school teachers, over 90% said that SATs are detrimental to pupils mental health and…Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainApprenticeship Levy exception for education establishmentsOrganizations with a payroll over £3m a year are required to pay an apprenticeship levy of 0.5% of their payroll to the government. For…Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainEducation reform — SEND fundingWhen the National Association of Head Teachers surveyed their members on Special Educational Needs provision in 2018 they found…Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainEducation reform — academies & free schoolsAt present academy trusts are not required to publish their accounts in spite of receiving huge amounts of public funding. We also hear…Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainScrap Universal CreditWhen the Universal Credit concept was introduced in 2010 it sounded like a real step forwards — simplifying a complex and bewildering…Aug 29, 2019Aug 29, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainBan zero hours contractsThe TUC have found significant evidence that zero hours contracts penalise workers, who are paid significantly less for the same work, and…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainVAT exemption for those most in needAccording to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, 43% (23 million) of the UK’s 54 million adults have such low incomes that they do not pay…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainBan micro-targeted online political advertisingThe recent Cambridge Analytica investigation by the DCMS Select Committee showed the extent to which the lack of any meaningful regulation…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019
Martin HamiltoninRebooting BritainRegional assemblies for English devolutionFrom 1998 to 2010 we had eight largely invisible regional assemblies in England, concerned principally with oversight of the Regional…Aug 28, 2019Aug 28, 2019