Avnee@IPPR

Great profile of my @ippr.bsky.social colleague @avneem.bsky.social in today's @schoolsweek.bsky.social - and another teaser for next week's big report with Ambition Institute on what next for Labour's teacher professional development entitlement...

👩‍🏫 Meet @avneem.bsky.social

Avnee was a maths teacher, a school leader, an Ofsted inspector, and an assistant director at the Department for Education before joining IPPR.

Read more about her in @schoolsweek.bsky.social 👇

Britain's nursery problem: Parents still face 'childcare deserts' Nursery places can difficult to find, particularly in certain areas - so why have successive governments not yet found a solution?

Great to talk to
@bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social
for their in depth piece on access to childcare. School based nurseries are a great first step in dealing with childcare deserts but are not the whole solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hidden hardships: The immigration system and child poverty | IPPR In 2022/23 it was estimated that 4.3 million children live in relative poverty, and this number has risen in recent years. Among those disproportionately i

⏰ | NEW REPORT: No child should grow up in hardship due to their parents’ immigration status, but nearly half of children in the UK with parents born abroad are living in poverty.

@amreenqureshi.bsky.social and @marleymorris.bsky.social explore the solutions 👇

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The world has changed and we need a flexible, future facing fiscal strategy. Long term savings can be delivered through welfare reform and benefit everyone but a short term cuts based approach is extremely risky.

💬 "I believe that most people do want to work," says Avnee Morjaria.

We need to provide opportunities, support, and skills training to help people move from our social security system into well-paid jobs.

How Labour can get the sector back on side With ministers and the sector divided, the government must re-focus on tangible policies that support teachers and leaders

🤝 'In the end fostering unity won’t be about a conciliatory tone. Government must go further with tangible policy solutions'

@ippr.bsky.social - Avnee Morjaria

Welfare changes could deliver real savings over time, but a ‘cuts first’ approach is likely to undermine efforts to reform the system and worsen child poverty.

💻 Read Avnee's full reaction to today's rumoured welfare cuts here: www.ippr.org/media-office...

The Chancellor is in a tight spot—global events have narrowed the options she had just a few months ago. But cutting welfare isn’t the solution. The government must now ask: are its past tax pledges still deliverable?

📻 #ICYMI: Avnee Morjaria on LBC 👇

Absolutely brilliant analysis by Jodie Reed for IPPR and Save the Children. It is an exciting time for early years with unprecedented funding, focus and opportunity. Delivering on this promise will require a proper reimagining of early years provision as public service. Time to roll up our sleeves.

Excited to have this out today.