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# Labour campaign for education not segregation
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/labour-campaign-for-education-not-segregation/
- Published: 2016-09-29T20:50:11.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-29T20:50:11.000Z
- Description: Labour activists will hold a series of campaign events this Saturday, October 1, opposing the Government’s plans to reintroduce selective education. Comprehensive schools enrol an average of 17% of children from poorer family backgrounds, whereas grammar schools take a mere 2.7%, leading to further
- Author: Besi
- Tags: In The South, News, Politics, Labour

## Labour activists will hold a series of campaign events this Saturday, October 1, opposing the Government’s plans to reintroduce selective education.

![web-600-2](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/web-600-2-10.jpg)

**Comprehensive schools** enrol an average of 17% of children from poorer family backgrounds, whereas grammar schools take a mere 2.7%, leading to further social divisions within society. Labour maintain Grammar schools are divisive and harm social mobility.

![Cllr Tom Bewick](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/web-200-16.jpg)

Cllr Tom Bewick

**Cllr Tom Bewick, Labour’s lead on education at Brighton and Hove City Council, said:** *“How on earth can such a divisive policy last introduced in the 1950s provide any real answers to the gross inequalities or social polarisation of today?”*

![Cllr Lloyd Russell-Moyle](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/web-200-17.jpg)

Cllr Lloyd Russell-Moyle

**Cllr Lloyd Russell-Moyle, acting chair of the District Labour Party, added:** *“The introduction of segregation in education will lead to poor quality Secondary Moderns, destroy links between schools and communities, and is a step back into the past. We will fight for good schools for all children and young people.”*

**The events will be at four locations across the city between 10:30am and 3:30pm.**

♦ New Rd, Brighton BN1 1SD

♦ New Steine, Brighton BN2 1PA

♦ George Street, Hove, BN3 3YA

♦ 19-20 Boundary Road, Portslade BN41 1GB