This page last updated
23 May 2008
Suggested amendments to NPF documents
No limit on number of submissions; closing date: 20th June
This is a new procedure - won through CLPD’s campaigning and with the support of the CWU.
Every CLP can now submit textual amendments to the National Policy Forum policy documents.
CLPD has drafted a total of 51 amendments, together with supporting arguments, covering the gamut of policy-making.
The complete document is available in Acrobat pdf format (13pp; 76Kb) by clicking
here.
Summary of amendments
- BRITAIN IN THE WORLD
- Increase Overseas Aid
- Israel/Palestine
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Guantanamo/torture/rendition
- Latin America [More detailed version]
- a. Venezuela
b. Bolivia
c. Columbia
d. Cuba
- Cluster bombs
- Anti-Trident
- CRIME, JUSTICE, CITIZENSHIP AND EQUALITIES
- 42 Days Detention & Civil Liberties
- ID Cards
- Immigration and Asylum
- Equal Pay Audits
- Equal Pay Claims
- Law Centres
- Legal aid
- CREATING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
- Climate Change
- Decentralised Power Generation
- Anti Nuclear Power
- Public ownership of rail
- More Council Tax Bands
- Council Housing
- HEALTH
- Prescription charges
- Quality, Choice, Competition
- No Expansion of Role of Private Sector
- Independent Review of PFI
- Abolition of Foundation Hospitals
- Free Personal care for the elderly
- Human Rights for People in Private Care Homes
- EDUCATION AND SKILLS
- Public School Charitable Status
- Ending Selection
- City Academies
- Parent Governors
- Independent Review of PFI/ Building Schools for the Future
- Access To Higher Education
- Scrap Tuition Fees
- PROSPERITY AND WORK
- Keeping The Post Office Public
- Minimum Wage - Equality for Young People
- Corporate Liability For Death Of Employees
- Reinstatement after unfair dismissal
- Supportive Action
- TU Freedom
- Use of Replacement Workers in an industrial dispute
- Temporary & Agency Workers
- State Pension
- Increase in Pension Age
- Democratise Pension Funds
You can download the NPF documents and see more details of the procedure at membersnet
http://members.labour.org.uk (see under Resources >
Partnership in Power) but copies have been sent to your CLP secretary.
Don’t miss this opportunity to influence policy! It is vital that your CLP submits
amendments by 20th June. There is no limit to how many!