Launching the party’s election manifesto in Birmingham, Jeremy Corbyn promised to introduce a National Education System that would reinstate Sure Start centres, reduce class sizes and create 15,000 extra early years jobs.
The Labour leader vowed to provide 30 hours free childcare for all 2-4-year-olds, offer free training for early years workers, scrap primary school SATs and abolish Ofsted.
Free schools meals would be offered for all primary school pupils in a bid to tackle food poverty while school leavers would be entitled to free education up to Level 3 and six years’ free education to Level 4 - 6.
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