A universal approach is vital to realising the full benefit of free school breakfasts
Children and young people are facing a crisis of historic proportion. Millions of pupils have had their learning…
Sharon Hodgson
How Labour will tackle the UK’s infant mortality crisis
The infant mortality rate has continued to rise under this Conservative government. Future generations need a Labour government…
Let’s protect our kids and take action on fast food advertising
It’s ludicrous that the benefits of being a healthy weight are so well documented, yet the food industry…
Sharon Hodgson: We must do better on cancer
This month, the NHS70 celebrations are focussing on cancer. Many of us will have our lives touched by…
Sharon Hodgson: Hepatitis C is the silent killer we can and must eliminate
There is a public health threat affecting around 100,000 people in England, around 214,000 in the UK and…
Tory universal credit plans could spell disaster for free school meals
Poverty is not an inevitability of our society. It comes about because of poor action by Government and…
Sharon Hodgson: Parliament must stand up to the faceless giants of the secondary ticketing market
For the last eight years, I have campaigned on ending the exploitation of fans desperate to see their…
Sharon Hodgson: Free school meals are a vital part of the fight for a fairer society
Earlier this month Jeremy Corbyn announced that, if elected, Labour would introduce free school meals for all primary…
Sharon Hodgson: Labour will always stand up for children with special educational needs
Since the Government announced its Schools White Paper last month, focus has been on their ham-fisted plans for the…
The Tories need to acknowledge their mistakes on childcare – instead of concentrating on dogmatic deregulation
13 months after David Cameron woke up to the childcare crisis his Government’s choices have created, and copied…
