London council reintroduces EMA

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laresTue 01/11/11 22:10

"A London Council with England's highest levels of child poverty has launched a new scheme to fill the gap left by the government's scrapping of the national Educational Maintenance Scheme (EMA) today (01.11.11).

The Tower Hamlets Mayor's Education Award will provide 16 to 19 year olds with the opportunity to continue their education by helping to alleviate the financial pressures that young people face. This is against a national backdrop of a decline in college enrolment with the loss of the EMA cited as the biggest single reason for the fall in numbers.

Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets Council, said: ‘EMA enabled young people from low income families to stay on in education and training. It allowed them to raise their hopes and aspirations. Government cuts to EMA were particularly damaging because, for many of our young people, it dampened their dreams of a better future.

'The Mayor's Education Award is designed to keep those dreams alive; it gives students who might otherwise have been forced to abandon their studies, a second chance. It is a demonstration of my commitment to ensure that poverty will not hold back our young people's ambitions.'

EMA has played an important role in keeping young people in school beyond GCSEs. In Tower Hamlets 76 per cent of young people received the grant, and Mayor Rahman, wants to see this continue to ensure that all of the borough's young people have an equal opportunity to access education and achieve success.

The new MEA will augment the 16 – 19 bursary, the government's scaled back EMA replacement, to the level of the average amount received by learners under EMA. Paid in two £200 instalments, the grants will only be available to Tower Hamlets residents and will be dependant on educational attendances and improvements."

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What an excellent idea. For some reason attacking students seemed to be the first wave of the ConDems destructive policies.

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