Kate’s Articles
Kate regularly writes columns for Progress, and makes similar contributions to publications made by other organisations. Here you can find a list of such articles. Below each headline is a link to the full piece.
Now the battle begins
As the government pushes back against criticism from the IFS, the Fawcett Society and beyond, Labour is united and ready to spring to fight for its progressive legacy of not just the last 13 years but throughout its history.
Read the full story here.
21st century welfare
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s consultation document on welfare has many worrying gaps.
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A debate on crime
Ken Clarke’s reportedly at odds with the Prime Minister on the direction of penal policy, and his junior Minister Crispin Blunt has already been slapped down by Number 10 for suggesting that entertainments for prisoners should be reinstated. But before Labour crows at yet another coalition split (and all within the Conservative party this time), let’s be careful to consider the evidence.
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Labour’s growing membership
New members are full of enthusiasm and Labour is already back campaigning, whether on the street or in opposition in parliament. Let’s make sure we give members new and old the chance for proper debate within the party.
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A healthier nation?
Past Tory warm words on public health measures are turning out to be just that. But Labour can resist harmful cuts and support public health through a positive campaign on fast foods, health in pregnancy and sports.
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A vital debate on anonymity
This week Parliament will debate the Government’s intention to extend anonymity to defendants accused of rape.
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Out in the cold
Kate Green finds little fairness in the coalition’s first budget.
Read the full article here.
Deprioritising the poor
A toxic mix of academisation and free schools, savage cuts and selection are likely to divert resources away from those who need it most, resulting in a two-tier education system.
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Defending the welfare state
The language of the new government points to less social justice and a profound dismantling of the welfare state as we know it.
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The loss of Child Trust Funds
Today’s decision is a blow that families may understand only in years’ time, and is an attack on the social mobility the governing parties claim to support.
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Capturing mums’ imagination
Research from the Daycare Trust showing that mothers’ voting choices will be affected by policies on childcare will come as no surprise to campaigners – or to politicians. Talk to women and it’s a constant anxiety.
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30/03/10
A budget for grown-ups
This was a budget for grown-ups. Sober, sensible, progressive – exactly what ordinary families wanted to see.
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Tory plans to tackle inequality
Any discussion of the huge rise in inequality during two decades of Conservative government, and the policies that caused this, is airbrushed out of their analysis.
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Reducing Reoffending
Today’s Social Market Foundation report on short-term prisoner care raises as many questions as it seeks to answer.
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Are we Beyond Beveridge?
Green shoots’ of debate on the welfare state are pleasing but the 2020 Public Services Trust’s new report places too much faith in localism.
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Tackling deprivation and risk early
New report shows inconsistent use of otherwise good early intervention policies. As belts tighten these must be made truly holistic.
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Behind at school, aged five
Today’s new report from the Sutton Trust showing that children from the poorest backgrounds are nearly a year behind better off children in terms of verbal scores at age five reveals a complex picture.
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The Marmot review
The increasing attention from Labour ministers to inequality as the root of a wider range of socioeconomic evils is very much to be welcomed.
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Violent deaths of children fall
Every child death is a tragedy. And when a child dies violently, public outrage rightly follows: how can we have failed to protect the most vulnerable?
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Equality in Britain
Social mobility may be fashionable but income and assets make the difference.
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Child poverty figures
One-club solutions are not the answer to child poverty.
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