Support for Families in Stockport

This summer, I have been out speaking to people all across Stockport and I know that things have been tough over the last few years. Parents are working hard but too many feel like they are not getting anywhere. Labour is working hard to tip the balance back in favour of working people. 

Starting this term, parents are eligible for 30 hours of government-funded childcare. Based on local rates, this will save parents in Stockport an estimated £6,400 a year per child. 

Labour is also opening a new wave of school-based nursery provision, and since April we have served over two million breakfasts as part of the first wave of our new free breakfast clubs, delivering better life chances for children and better work choices for parents.

From next year we are expanding free school meals provision for half a million children- to all children with a parent in receipt of universal credit. Every toddler in preschool, every child at school and every sixth former at college whose household is on universal credit will benefit and this will save parents £450 and raise 100,000 children out of poverty. In Stockport, this will mean that around 6040 children will receive free, nutritious lunches every day at school.

We are helping families with the cost of living – raising the minimum wage to give 3 million workers a pay rise, bringing mortgages down through interest rate cuts, and extending the Warm Homes Discount so that 2.7 million more low-income households will get £150 off their energy bills.

There is much more work to be done, but our Labour Government is determined to deliver for children and families up and down the country – breaking the unfair link between background and success. We are taking the first steps and with your continued support we can make sure that every child gets the best start in life.