Rebuild our Public Services
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- Universal public services, collectively provided through general taxation and free at the point of use for all
- Create a fairer taxation system, making sure that everyone pays what they owe
- Reverse some of the Tories’ cuts to corporation tax while keeping rates lower than in 2010
- Those who earn more than £80,000 a year to pay a little more income tax, while freezing National Insurance and income tax rates for everyone else
- Guarantee no increases in VAT
- Launch the biggest ever crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion and reform the inefficient system of tax reliefs
- End the current presumption in favour of outsourcing public services and introduce a presumption in favour of insourcing
- Stop the public getting ripped off by taking back all PFI contracts over time
- Procured Services will be assessed against best practice public service criteria, including provisions for collective bargaining, fair wage clauses, adherence to environmental standards, effective equalities policies, full tax compliance and application of pay ratios.
- In the public sector we will enforce maximum pay ratios of 20:1
- Repair the damage the Tories have done to our social fabric, with a £150 billion Social Transformation
- Fund to replace, upgrade and expand our schools, hospitals, care homes and council houses
- Public buildings will be modernised to ensure a reduction in their carbon footprint
- Restore public sector pay to at least pre-financial crisis level
- A 5% public sector pay increase, to reward and retain the people who do so much for us all
NHS and Social Care
- Invest in the NHS to give patients the modern, well - resourced services they need
- Increase expenditure across the health sector by an average 4.3% a year
- End patient charges
- Invest in education for the health workforce
- Restore public health grants
- Stabilise our overstretched A&E departments
- Improve stroke, heart disease and cancer survival rates by providing earlier diagnosis and improved screening rates
- We will call a moratorium on bed cuts
- End and reverse privatisation in the NHS in the next Parliament
- Repeal the Health and Social Care Act and reinstate the responsibilities of the Secretary of State to provide a comprehensive and universal healthcare system
- End the requirement on health authorities to put services out to competitive tender
- Ensure services are delivered in-house and also bring subsidiary companies back in-house
- Halt the fire sale of NHS land and assets
- Publish an infrastructure plan to return NHS England to the international average level of capital investment
- Ensure future decisions are transparent and balanced fairly between every region
- Complete the confirmed hospital rebuilds
- Invest more in primary care settings, modern AI, cyber technology and state-of-the-art medical equipment, including more MRI and CT scanners
- Ensure data protection for NHS and patient information
- Ensure NHS data is not exploited by international technology and pharmaceutical corporations
- Uphold the principle of comprehensive healthcare by providing free annual NHS dental check-ups
- Universal healthcare: Ensure women’s and children’s health services are comprehensive
- Universal healthcare: Protect the rights of EU workers
- Universal healthcare: Protect the rights of migrants and refugees
- Universal healthcare: All services are made accessible to BAME, LGBT+ and disabled patients
- End mixed-sex wards
- Ensure our NHS becomes a net- zero-carbon service with an NHS Forest of one million trees
- Net-zero-carbon: More efficient heating and insulation systems, greater reliance on renewable energy, including more solar panelling
- Net-zero-carbon: Transition to electric paramedic vehicles, NHS fleet cars and hybrid ambulances
- Introduce mandatory standards for NHS in-patient food
- Provide free hospital parking for patients, staff and visitors
- Stop Tory plans to further entrench the private sector delivery of health care under the cover of integration plans
- Join up, integrate and co-ordinate care through public bodies
- Develop a planned model of joined-up community care, enabling people to live longer lives in better health in their own homes
- Ensure the voices of local people and NHS staff are heard in future developments of the health system
- Allocate a greater proportion of overall funding to close-to-home health services
- Build interdisciplinary, patient-focused services across primary care, mental health and social care
- Ensure patients in deprived and remote communities will have better access to primary care services
- Ensure those living with long-term conditions can access the care they need
- Expand GP training places to provide resources for 27 million more appointments each year and ensure community pharmacy is supported
- Provide an additional £1.6 billion a year to ensure new standards for mental health are enshrined in the NHS constitution
- Ensure access to treatments is on a par with that for physical health conditions
- Invest £2 billion to modernise hospital facilities and end the use of inappropriate, out-of-area placements
- Implement in full the recommendations set out in the independent review of the Mental Health Act
- Invest more in eating disorders services and ensure NICE guidelines on eating disorders are implemented
- £845 million plan for Healthy Young Minds will more than double the annual spending on children and adolescent mental health services
- Establish a network of open- access mental health hubs to enable more children to access mental health
- Recruit almost 3,500 qualified counsellors to guarantee every child access to school counsellors
- Target a reduction in health inequalities with a comprehensive children’s health strategy
- Introduce a Future Generations Well-being Act, enshrining health aims in all policies
- Introduce a new duty for NHS agencies to collaborate with directors of public health
- Invest more than £1 billion in public health and recruit 4,500 more health visitors and school nurses
- Increase mandated health visits, ensure new mothers can have access to breastfeeding support
- Introduce mental health assessments in a maternal health check six weeks after birth
- Invest in children’s oral health, tackle childhood obesity and extend the sugar tax to milk drinks
- Ban fast-food restaurants near schools and enforce stricter rules around the advertising of junk food and levels of salt in food
- Take action to significantly reduce infant deaths
- Ensure families who lose a baby receive appropriate bereavement support as well as protections at work
- Urgently put in place a vaccination action plan to regain our measles-free status in WHO listings
- Fully fund sexual health services and roll out PrEP medication
- Address drug-related deaths, alcohol-related health problems and the adverse impacts of gambling as matters of public health in expanded addiction- support services
- Alcoholic drinks will be labelled with clear health warnings and we will review the evidence on minimum pricing
- Implement a Tobacco Control Plan and fund smoking cessation services
- End the crisis in our health and care services
- Plan for the future
- Guarantee real-terms pay rises every year
- Terms and conditions will be put into law alongside safe staffing limits for all staff
- Invest, train and develop NHS staff throughout their careers
- Introduce a training bursary for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
- Remove the obstacles to ethical international recruitment
- Review the tax and pension changes implemented by the Tory government to ensure that the workforce is fairly rewarded and that services are not adversely affected
- Provide mental health support for staff
- Create a working environment within the NHS that is safe, flexible and free from harassment, bullying or violence
- The NHS will be at the forefront of the development of genomics and cell therapies so that patients can benefit from new treatments for cancer and dementia
- Ensure the UK continues to lead in medical developments
- Establish a generic drug company
- Use the Patents Act provisions, compulsory licences and research exemptions to secure access to generic versions of drugs
- Aim to increase the number of pharmaceutical jobs in the UK
- Play an active role in the medical innovation model, ensuring rewards and incentives match the areas of greatest health need
- Ensure that all parts of the NHS are all fully excluded and protected from any international trade deals
- Progress clinically appropriate prescription of medical cannabis
- Abolish prescription charges in England
- Build a comprehensive National Care Service for England
- Provide community-based, person-centred support, underpinned by the principles of ethical care and independent living
- Provide free personal care, to ensure that older people have their personal care needs met, with the ambition to extend this provision to all working-age adults
- Develop eligibility criteria that ensures our service works for everyone, including people with complex conditions like dementia
- Ensure no one ever again needs to face catastrophic care costs of more than £100,000 for the care they need in old age
- A lifetime cap on personal contributions to care costs
- Invest in other social care packages to reverse the damage done by Conservative cuts
- Provide additional care packages to support both older people and working-age adults living independently in their own homes
- More than double the number of people receiving publicly funded care packages
- improve the standard of care provided and remove the distinction between health and care needs
- Support autistic people and people with learning disabilities to move out from inappropriate inpatient hospital settings
- Our National Care Service will work in partnership with the NHS, ensuring care is delivered for people, not for profit
- Contracts for providing care will not be awarded to organisations that do not pay their fair share of taxes
- Contracts for providing care will not be awarded to organisations that do not meet our high standards of quality care
- Focus will be on the ethical delivery of care that ensures growing public sector provision and providers who meet standards of transparency, compliance and profit capping
- Invest to end the social care crisis, end 15-minute care visits and provide care workers with paid travel time, access to training and an option to choose regular hours
- Increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers
National Education Service
- Reverse cuts to Sure Start
- Create a new service, Sure Start Plus
- enough centres to provide a genuinely universal service, available in all communities, focused on the under-2s
- Radically reform early years provision, with a two-term vision to make high-quality early years education available for every child
- Extend paid maternity leave to 12 months
- Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year- olds will be entitled to 30 hours of free preschool education per week
- Within five years, all 2, 3 and 4-year- olds will be entitled to access to additional hours at affordable, subsidised rates staggered with incomes
- Work to extend childcare provision for 1-year-olds and to ensure that childcare provision accommodates the working patterns of all parents
- Improve child development by transitioning to a qualified, graduate- led workforce
- We value the experience of current early years workers, and will offer free training to the workforce to attain these qualifications on the job
- Increase funding and end the fragmentation of the current system by funding providers directly, making things simpler and more sustainable for parents and providers
- Recruit nearly 150,000 additional early years staff, including Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators
- Introduce a national pay scale, driving up pay for the overwhelmingly female workforce
- Provide sustainable, long-term funding to securemMaintained nursery schools future
- Make sure schools are properly resourced with increased long-term funding
- Introduce a fairer funding formula that leaves no child worse off
- Invest to upgrade schools that have fallen into disrepair
- Ensure pupils are taught by a qualified teacher
- Ensure every school is open for a full five days a week
- Ensure maximum class sizes of 30 for all primary school children
- Fund more non-contact time for teachers to prepare and plan
- Provide the necessary funding for children with special educational needs and disabilities
- End the ‘high stakes’ testing culture of schools by scrapping Key Stage 1 and 2 SATs and baseline assessments
- Refocus assessment on supporting pupil progress
- Introduce an Arts Pupil Premium to fund arts education for every primary school child
- Review the curriculum to ensure that it enriches students and covers subjects such as black history and continues to teach issues like the Holocaust
- Pupils will learn both the science of climate and environmental emergency, and the skills necessary to deal with them
- End the fragmentation and marketisrning
- Budget and day-to-day decisions will be transferred back to schools, overseen by an accountable governing body with elected representatives
- Responsibility for delivery of education and support for young people will sit with local authorities
- Local authorities will manage and have responsibility for school places, including the power to open schools
- Oversight and coordination, including of continuous, peer-to-peer school improvement modelled on the London Challenge, will be carried out by regional offices
- All schools will be subject to a common rulebook, set out in legislation
- Replace Ofsted and transfer responsibility for inspections to a new body, designed to drive school improvement
- A new teacher supply service will tackle the waste of funds going to private supply teacher agencies
- Take action to end ‘off-rolling’, removing the perverse incentives for schools to let pupils fall out of the system
- Properly regulate all education providers and reform alternative provision (AP) to ensure an excellent education is the right of every child
- ‘Poverty-proof’ schools, introducing free school meals for all primary school children, encouraging breakfast clubs, and tackling the cost of school uniforms
- Bring back the School Support Staff Negotiating Body and national pay settlements for teachers
- Close the tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools and use that money to improve the lives of all children
- Ask the Social Justice Commission to advise on integrating private schools and creating a comprehensive education system
- Ensure fairness and sustainability in further education
- Base rate of per-pupil funding in post-16 education with Key Stage 4, providing dedicated capital funding to expand provision
- Bring back the Education Maintenance Allowance as the Welsh Labour Government has done
- Give everyone a free lifelong entitlement to training up to Level 3
- Six years training at Levels 4-6, with maintenance grants for disadvantaged
- Introduce additional entitlements for workers in industries that are significantly affected by industrial transition
- Make sure training delivers the right skills by giving employers a role in co-design and co-production of qualifications
- Restore funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses
- Restore and expand the Union Learning Fund, giving workers the right to accrue paid time off for education and training
- Reform existing careers advice, working towards an integrated information, advice and guidance system that covers the entire NES
- Reverse the fragmentation and privatisation of further and adult education
- Incorporate it into a single national system of regulation that functions for education as our NHS does for healthcare provision
- End the failed free-market experiment in higher education
- Abolish tuition fees
- Bring back maintenance grants
- Ensure all public HE institutions have adequate funding for teaching and research
- Widen access to higher education and reverses the decline of part-time learning
- End the casualisation of staff
- Transform the Office for Students from a market regulator to a body of the National Education Service
- Introduce post-qualification admissions in higher education
- Work with universities to ensure contextual admissions are used across the system
Police and Security
- Invest in our communities and public services to build the stronger, fairer society that keeps us all safer
- Rebuild our criminal justice services, focusing on crime prevention and early interventions, giving people the best chance of rehabilitation
- Rebuild our youth services and guarantee young people’s access to youth workers
- Invest in a youth justice system
- Invest in policing to prevent crime and make our communities safer
- enforce the laws protecting police and other emergency workers from violent assault
- rebuild the whole police workforce, recruiting more police officers, police community support officers and police staff
- Re-establish neighbourhood policing and recruit 2,000 more frontline officers than planned by the Tories
- Work with police forces to invest in a modern workforce to tackle the rise in violent crime and cybercrime
- Work with police and crime commissioners to reform police funding and share new resources fairly, and to ensure that local needs are met
- Reform the police funding formula to ensure sufficient, sustainable resources are fairly allocated
- Agree resources with the police authorities to combat crime and restore community policing by consent
- Work to eliminate institutional biases against BAME communities
- Ensure better police training on domestic abuse and offences arising from coercive control
- Establish a Royal Commission to develop a public health approach to substance misuse, focusing on harm reduction rather than criminalisation
- Introduce minimum legal standards of service for all victims of crime
- Address the failure of the Conservatives to take effective measures against a growing problem of extreme or violent radicalisation
- Ensure closer counter terrorism co-ordination between the police and the security services
- Ensure the powers exercised by the security services are proportionate and used in accordance with human rights
- Review the circumstances requiring judicial warrant
- Ensure agencies are accountable and strengthen the powers of the Joint Intelligence and Security Committee
- Constrain the right of the Prime Minister to suppress publication of committee reports
- Review the Prevent programme to assess both effectiveness and potential to alienate communities
- Review the Protect programme to ensure that public authorities take appropriate security measures, without alienating the communities they serve
- Evaluate the mobile phone trials with the aim of introducing an emergency alert system
- Use our diplomatic services, our aid budgets and our international standing to promote peaceful solutions to conflicts
- Tackle the risks arising from poverty, natural catastrophes and population displacements
- Respect international law and avoid needless military interventions
- If the British people confirm their decision to leave, we will prioritise agreement of a new UK-EU Security Treaty
- Overhaul our cybersecurity by creating a co-ordinating minister and regular reviews of cyber-readiness
- Review the role and remit of the National Cyber Security Centre to determine whether it should be given powers as an auditing body
- Review the structures and roles of the National Crime Agency, to strengthen the response to all types of economic crime, including cybercrime and fraud
- Ensure a modern, technologically advanced police service that has the capacity and skills to combat online crime
Justice
- Foster close working relationships between criminal justice agencies with education authorities, health services and others
- Establish violence-reduction units and ensuring vulnerable people get the support they need by boosting public health, mental health and early years services
- Restore total prison officer numbers to 2010 levels, and phase out dangerous lone working
- Bring PFI prisons back in-house and there will be no new private prisons
- Tackle the prison maintenance backlog and develop a long-term estate strategy
- Set new standards for community sentences and
- Introduce a presumption against prison sentences of six months or less for non-violent and non-sexual offences
- Invest in proven alternatives to custody, including women’s centres, expand problem-solving courts and plug the funding gap in the female offender strategy
- Further consider the evidence for effective alternatives and rehabilitation of prolific offenders
- Reunify probation and guarantee a publicly run, locally accountable probation service
- Probation staff and professional standards will once again be properly valued
- Restore all early legal aid advice, including for housing, social security, family and immigration cases
- Recruit hundreds of new community lawyers, promote public legal education and build an expanded network of law centres
- Ensure legal aid for inquests into deaths in state custody and the preparation of judicial review cases
- Consult on the civil legal aid means-test levels and act on the criminal legal aid review
- Defend workers’ ability to recover legal representation costs from negligent employers
- Keep the right for workers to be represented and recover their costs in cases of employer negligence leading to injury at work
- Review the eligibility criteria for the criminal injuries compensation scheme
- Halt court closures and cuts to staff, and undertake a review of the courts reform programme
- Facilitate a more representative judiciary while upholding its independence
- Review funding for the Crown Prosecution Service
- Tackle the disproportionate levels of BAME children in custody
- Review the youth custody estate, strengthen youth courts and build on the Lammy Review
- Set new standards for tackling domestic and sexual abuse and violence, and appoint a Commissioner for Violence against Women and Girls
- Establish an independent review into shamefully low rape prosecution rates
- Establish a National Refuge Fund,
- Ensure financial stability for rape crisis centres
- Reintroduce a Domestic Abuse Bill
- Improve the safety of the family court system for domestic violence victims and prohibit their cross-examination by their abuser
- Introduce protections for victims of so-called revenge porn
- Introduce a no-fault divorce procedure
- Uphold women’s reproductive rights
- Establish public inquiries into historical injustices including blacklisting and Orgreave
- Ensure the second phase of the Grenfell Inquiry has the confidence of all those affected
- Consider a public inquiry in the case of Zane Gbangbola
- Require judicial warrants for undercover operations and retain the Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing
- Release all papers on the Shrewsbury 24 trials and 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers
- Introduce a Public Accountability Bill
- Ensure fair compensation for the victims of contaminated blood products across the UK
Communities and Local Government
- Reverse the Tory decade of austerity for local government
- Aim to restore council spending powers to 2010 levels over the lifetime of the Parliament
- Act to bring services – from bin collections to management of local leisure centres – back in-house within the next Parliament
- Improve service quality, saving money and ensuring the people who deliver vital local services are treated decently
- Introduce a ‘rural- proofing’ process so that all our laws, policies and programmes consider their impact on rural communities
- Make council funding more reactive, and will work with councils to establish such a fund to meet changing circumstances.
- Revive high streets by stopping bank branch closures, banning ATM charges and giving local government new powers to put empty shops to good use
- Review the option of a land value tax on commercial landlords as an alternative and develop a retail sector industrial strategy
- Consumers rights enhanced and protected and that safety standards are maintained and improved
- Local authority trading standards departments and other consumer protection agencies have the resources to enforce rights and standards
- Stop Crown Post Office closures
- Bring Royal Mail back into public ownership, reuniting it with the Post Office
- Publicly owned Post Bank run through the post office network
- A Business Development Agency will be based in the Post Bank, providing free support and advice on how to launch, manage and grow a business
- Labour will list pubs as Assets of Community Value so community groups have the first chance to buy local pubs when they are under threat
- Ensure libraries are preserved for future generations and updated with Wi-Fi and computers
- Reintroduce library standards so that government can assess and guide councils in delivering the best possible service
- Presumption to insource public services
- Build community wealth by giving communities the powers and resources they need to keep public spending circulating in the local economy
- Give a new Co-operative Development Agency a mission to double the size of the co-operative sector
- Rebalance power in the planning system by giving local government greater freedom to set planning fees
- Require the climate and environmental emergency to be factored into all planning decisions
- build a properly funded, professionally staffed National Youth Service, and will guarantee every young person has access to local, high-quality youth work
- Launch a wholesale review of the care system, including kinship care, considering national standards such as a central register of foster parents and regulation of semi-supported housing, to ensure we meet the needs of every child
- Rebuild early intervention services and replace the Troubled Families programme with a Stronger Families programme
- Protect and build on Staying Put for over-18s in care and the Adoption Support Fund
Fire and Rescue
- Halt the cuts and further invest in our Fire and Rescue Service
- Recruit at least 5,000 new firefighters
- Learn lessons from the public inquiries into Grenfell and earlier disasters
- Establish a broadly based implementation taskforce, but will not wait for final recommendations to make urgent changes
- Ensure dedicated fire controls under Fire and Rescue Service governance
- Provide resources for a public Fire and Rescue College to ensure that necessary training, research and planning is undertaken
- Conduct a review of the Fire and Rescue Service, evaluating safe staffing levels and consulting on national minimum standards
- Establish in law a standards body for fire prevention, protection and intervention, with trade union representation at all levels
- Reinstate separate governance arrangements for Fire and Rescue Service and police services
- Give fire services the duty to co-ordinate the emergency response to floods locally
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Deliver free full-fibre broadband to all by 2030
- Establish British Broadband, with two arms: British Digital Infrastructure (BDI) and the British Broadband Service (BBS)
- Bring the broadband-relevant parts of BT into public ownership
- A jobs guarantee for all workers in existing broadband infrastructure and retail broadband work
- BDI will roll out the remaining 90–92% of the full-fibre network, and acquire necessary access rights to existing assets
- BBS will coordinate the delivery of free broadband in tranches as the full-fibre network is rolled out, beginning with the communities worst served
- BBS will coordinate the delivery of free broadband in tranches as the full-fibre network is rolled out, beginning with the communities worst served by existing broadband networks
- Enforce a legal duty of care to protect our children online, impose fines on companies that fail on online abuse and empower the public with a Charter of Digital Rights
- Open up career opportunities in creative industries for everyone and consult on ways to address the gender imbalance in the digital creative industries
- Introduce an Arts Pupil Premium to every primary school in England
- A £160 million annual boost for schools to ensure creative and arts education is embedded in secondary education
- Invest in the towns and communities neglected for too long, with a £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund to transform libraries, museums and galleries across the country
- Make the distribution of National Lottery funding more transparent to help communities get their fair share of project funding
- Maintain free entry to museums, because everyone should have access to our shared heritage
- Launch a Town of Culture competition
- Work with trade unions and employers to make creative jobs accessible for all
- Review the copyright framework to ensure fair remuneration for artists and content creators
- Ensure a healthy future for all our public service broadcasters, including BBC Alba and S4C
- Protect free TV licences for over-75s
- Address misconduct and the unresolved failures of corporate governance raised by the second stage of the abandoned Leveson Inquiry
- Ensure that Ofcom is better able to safeguard a healthy plurality of media ownership
- Put in place clearer rules on who is fit and proper to own or run TV and radio stations
- Address the monopolistic hold the tech giants have on advertising revenues and will support vital local newspapers and media outlets
- Consult media-sector workers and trade unions to establish an inquiry into the ‘fake news’ undermining trust in media, democracy and public debate
- Consult media-sector workers and trade unions on a legal right of public interest defence for journalists
- Examine the state of the football game, its governance and regulation, its ownership rules and the support and funding of the clubs that are vital to local communities
- Review the ‘fit and proper person test’ for club owners and directors and ensure that supporters’ trusts have a proper role
- Legislate for accredited football supporters’ trusts to be able to appoint and remove at least two club directors and purchase shares when clubs change hands
- Regulate safe standing in stadiums and ensure that a proportion of the Premier League’s television rights income is spent on grassroots football facilities