What scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance means to East London

"...the Government is scrapping the EMA, a payment of £10 - £30 a week to low- income students who want to stay in post-16 education. At present 29 receive it in the City of London, 4,230 (41%) in Tower Hamlets, 3,078 in Barking & Dagenham and 5,771 (46%) in Newham. The scheme cost £560m nationally and is being replaced with a £180 million 'discretionary fund' which will leave the poorest students almost £400 a year worse off according to the Institute of Fiscal Studies"...John Biggs AM Monthly Report April 2011.

Lyn Brown MP attacks Tories over abolition of EMA

Watch this YouTube clip of West Ham Labour MP, Lyn Brown, tearing into this Tory–led Coalition while on the floor of the House of Commons, over the abolition of the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA).

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