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Written by Sarah Teather on Tue 27th Jul 2010
I came into politics to make a difference for the most disadvantaged in our society. It is over three years since I, as Liberal Democrat education spokesperson, championed the Pupil Premium as our flagship education policy and debated it at Conference. I never dared imagine a time when I would be unveiling it as Government policy and then actually implementing it. But this week, the Coalition Government announced that a Pupil Premium, funded from outside the schools budget, will be introduced next September. It will mean that from next year, schools taking disadvantaged children will get the additional money they need to provide them with the extra support they deserve, no matter where they are in the country. This could mean more individual tuition or catch-up classes, but it will be for the school to decide, we won't be telling headteachers how to spend the money.
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Read "Teather: Pupil Premium is a real Liberal Democrat achievement" in full.
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Tue 27th Jul 2010
Electric car drivers in Birmingham and Coventry can now use a new network of easy-access charge points in the latest stage of the UK's largest ultra low carbon vehicles trial. The network of charging points has been installed by E.ON on behalf of the CABLED project, a trial of 110 vehicles being tested by 'real world' users over the next 12 months.
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Read "Birmingham charges ahead with electric vehicle network" in full.
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Wed 30th Jun 2010
The national free swimming initiative for under-16s and over-60s may have been scrapped but Birmingham residents of all ages can still continue to swim for free. The Be Active scheme, a partnership between Birmingham City Council and the NHS, offers all Birmingham residents free swimming, group exercise classes and gym sessions until 31 March 2011.
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Read "Free swimming continues in Birmingham" in full.
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