Securing the future of the Next Generation

Chair: Joani Reid

The key challenge of this Commission will be to investigate how young Britain is coping with the consequences of government fiscal retrenchment.

Facing debt, a difficult labour market and a challenging housing market and sharply rising education costs the next generation of Britain is under huge pressure.

This commission will look at how Labour should respond to the challenges facing the next generation.

The specific areas which we propose to investigate are:

• Widening participation in education: how do we ensure that pupils more deprived areas can be recruited and indeed retained in higher and further education?
  
• Skills and the Labour Market: ensuring that pupils leave school and enter the job market with the relevant skills.
  
• First Time buyers: ensuring that home ownership remains an achievable aspiration for the many, rather than few.
  

 Download a copy of the scoping document for this Young Fabian Policy Commission.

 Download a copy of the workplan for this Young Fabian Policy Commission.

  Download a copy of the notes from the first meeting.

Forthcoming Policy Commission activity:

• 6.30pm Wednesday 22nd June: "Widening Access" - Room P, Portcullis House, Westminster
• 6.30pm Wednesday 20th July: "Skills" - Room M, Portcullis House, Westminster
• 6..30pm, Tuesday 9th August: "Housing" - Room B, 1 Parliament Street
  

About Joani

Joani Reid currently works in policy and public affairs in the housing industry. She previously worked for a child health charity and prior to that, worked with disadvantaged school children throughout Glasgow as part of a widening access participation programme. It was this work that propelled her into politics and motivated her to join the Labour Party. Joani stood as a Labour Party council candidate in East Dulwich, Southwark at the 2010 Local Elections and is former Secretary of Dulwich and West Norwood CLP. She has participated in many local and national elections in Scotland and England. Joani also participated in the Obama 08 US presidential campaign as part of the Young Fabian delegation to Ohio.