Sally Prentice Articles

Ideology and school place planning do not go together. This was illustrated yesterday on national offer day for primary school places. In London, five per cent of parents did not receive an offer of a school place at any of the schools that they had applied for. In...

The gender pay gap in Britain is proving hard to eradicate. Over 40 years after the Equal Pay Act came into force Britain has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the European Union. In 2012 women earned on average less than 18.6 per cent less per hour than men with...

Time for child benefit accounts All three parties will be competing for the ‘family vote’ in 2015. The Tories and Liberal Democrats have pledged a tax-free childcare subsidy of £1,500 per child. Labour has committed to 25 hours’ free nursery education for three- and...

Creating more high-skilled, better-paid jobs through reforming Britain’s banks is crucial to increasing living standards, Ed Miliband argued today. Setting out his vision for Britain, Ed lambasted the Tories for their belief in ‘a race to the bottom’ with millions of...