MNHQ calling: we want to know what would be on your policy wishlist

Sorry, Retropear.

And everything Retropair said about school dinners.

Ditch right to buy it just over inflates the housing market. Affordable housing and fair rents. Build more social housing. Knock a zero of everybody's property, though I understand not everyone would like this.

As someone else said, keep your beaky nose out of education. The changes this government are making to the curriculum are ill conceived at best and the changes which were coming in but they prevented were wonderful.

Tackle misogyny, it's getting worse not better.

No more religious schools and the ones who exist have to accept everybody, not just fellow church goers.

Stop demonising poor people and the disabled.

Tax breaks for families with a sahp

YY - transferable personal tax allowance for families with a SAHP.

Tax breaks for families with a sahp and yy to phasing out of church schools.

While we're at it I would also like to see an end to the pushing of sub standard school dinners and more scrutiny as to what schools are feeding children(as we're all paying for it).

Would also like to see free food and help with childcare for rich families scrapped.

Generous tax breaks for each job created/ reconfigured as term-time only.

Ditto for each job created/reconfigured to offer working hours of 9.30am -2.30pm ish.

Parents hired on one of these patterns would still need holiday or wrap around childcare BUT NOT BOTH making employment a more affordable and viable proposition for some parents.

I can't see why g'ovt would object to this as it would benefit their own workfare agenda.

Employers could cover the summer break with students/jobseeking graduates, providing valuable experience to them. Win-win

The NHS is the very top of my list, with more than 70% of contracts now going to private companies it fits the WHO definition of privatisation - we're losing the NHS without even noticing and that's a scandal.

Just been reminded of the CSA changes. Yes, reverse them, and ar

Better funding for Women's Aid. So many MNers have had life changing support from Women's Aid, and yet they struggle along often on a shoestring. I would like to see an election promise that they will be properly financed by the Government.

• the end to CSA charges. It's only going to hurt ex-partners of abusive and controlling men.

• more pressure on employers to offer flexible hours / working from home. It shouldn't just be a perk of management who get to work from home when their child is sick.

• more house building.

• improved mental health care. I'm not sure the situation could be much worse TBH.

I would like to understand the resources placed to investigate tax avoidance / dodging which is disproportionately lower than the resource to tackle benefit fraud.

I believe both are valid but the former may provide the tax payer with better value for money.

Also agree with

trying to stop FGM,

better much more flexible childcare which is affordable (ie less sessional more x hours here and there!)

More female curriculum inclusion as above re pirates!

A reversal of the ludicrous CB debacle.

'Open new grammar schools' always gives me a wry smile! The person never ever comes out with 'open new secondary modern schools' which is what it means.
Luckily there is no chance- since at least 75% of parents would have to accept the secondary modern(or whatever name they care to give it-as it is hardly 'modern') they will fight it tooth and nail.
I agree that we need to improve the careers service.

So no support for SAHP in the op,are we just invisible,I'm sure there are a fair few of us?

More support for SAHP,more value given to the role and less demonising please.

Not sure how this is going to work really.MN can't presume to speak for everybody.Not everybody is going to agree with all things listed in the op or an extended version.It's a bit presumptions to speak for all members.

Phasing out of faith stAte schools - no new ones, and existing ones given time to sort themselves out re land etc to either become independent schools or non-faith

Access to proper, effective pain relief in labour - and an end to midwives' misinformation about the side effects of pain relief.

An end to religious schools and religious school admission criteria.

A radical reform of the siblings admission criterion which currently means that some schools are completely shut to local (catchment) children.

Fully equal paternity leave - so both working parents can begin to share the burden from the get go.

Chickenpox and flu vaccination available to all children.

Properly joined up education, health and social care for children with learning disabilities, not the pathetic pretence at it that has been served up in the Children and Families Act.

Another agreeing with the lack of provision for academically able special needs children. Primary school wasn't an issue for my autistic son but now were approaching high school I've been told he is too intelligent for special school but has too many needs for mainstream school! 4 months and still no suggestions as to what were actually going to do or where to send him. It's beyond a joke.

Sorry Eduardo, was that aimed at me? my own father can hardly write a sentence so apologies for my misuse of have/of. Did you mean to be so rude?
I grew up in a very poor region of the UK and I promise you things are actually worse there now than 20 years ago. Very few students to go university, and ambition is very lacking, because there are very few role models.

I'm not blaming my teachers, & I apologise if my grammar is incorrect. I'm saying that these things should be added to the curriculum, but I'll just lurk in future rather than face ridicule.

Oh and German-style rent regulation too.

Build some houses

then.....

build some more houses.

Repeat, until there are enough houses.

Better rights to sharing parental leave - couples should have the right to share the time and the statutory pay however works best for them, including an option of both members of a couple working half their normal hours for a time, and still getting the SMP to make up some of the lost income.

YYY on preventing ignorant schools from enforcing ill-educated misinformed ideas of healthy eating, especially when some children are underweight and need extra calories to grow.

Better protection for private tenants.

You would have learned grammar too. Don't judge today's education by your own. It's changed beyond recognition

And YYY to CSA. 3/5 of lone parents receive no maintenance at all, because financial abuse of children is not even recognised as the abuse it is. Governments should rectify this and stop charging resident parents for trying to address financial abuse by NRPs.

Treat sexism and sex discrimination as the serious issue it is, starting with schools and then making sure that workplaces are no longer able to hide behind "individual negotiation" to systematically pay women less than men for the same work.