Introduction

The Education and Skills Policy Commission is tasked with addressing challenges and developments in education.  It has a wide policy remit including early years education and childcare, schools, further and higher education, adult skills, looked after children and youth policy.

It considers current issues from early years provision, including Sure Start and nursery provision, to school standards, school reform, and post 14, 16 and 18 choices for young people as well as apprenticeships, universities and adult skills.

The policy commission has two main roles. As part of the policy development process the commission engages with local Labour parties, Labour’s affiliates and local communities in producing consultation and policy documents. The second main role is to discuss current issues, submissions from the public, and to give feed back to party members and affiliates. For more information about the role of the Policy Commission, look at our pages on the Partnership into Power institutions – here.

Membership
Members of the Policy commission are drawn from the National Executive of the Labour Party, Labour’s National Policy Forum, opposition frontbench, affiliates and socialist societies.


Co-convenors
Stephen Twigg MP
Mary Turner

Shadow Ministers
Kevin Brennan MP
Sharon Hodgson MP
Shabana Mahmood MP

NEC members
Paddy Lillis
Callum Munro
Cllr Luke Akehurst

National Policy Forum members
Bex Bailey
Georgia Elliott
Stephanie Peacock
Cllr James Valentine

Affiliates and Socialist societies
John Hannett

Elected members
Cllr Angela Cornforth
Bill Esterson MP