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

Stop the privatisation of the NHS.
Control rents private landlords charge instead of capping housing benefit.
Do something to control spiralling house prices instead of encouraging the inflation of prices by so-called help to buy policy.
Take Royal Mail and the railways back into public ownership so profit can be reinvested rather than paid to shareholders.

Stop telling parents they can't take their children on holiday, and what they have to give their children to eat (when the parent is often better informed than the people doing the dictating).

Better more affordable childcare.

More access to shared maternity/paternity leave to help reduce the gender pay gap.

As a Londoner I feel strongly about air pollution. There's a lot that the government/GLA could do about this, and it's a major health issue for developing children.

A complete overhaul of Carers allowance making Caring a more attractive option for family members to take a temporary? break from employment or combine with paid employment. This should help reduce the pressure on the NHS and keep people who are sick and disabled longer in their own homes.

A 'hide poster' button .

Listen to Mr Carney and build more homes.

Open up family courts.

Mental health funding.

More women in boardrooms and politics, although I'm not convinced that quotas are the way to achieve this.

Move towards the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Oh, wait....

Provide security for families in the private rental sector of the housing market.

Careers education which includes face to face guidance for ALL by appropriately qualified people and not a school lottery as to whether or not they have the money to buy it in.

Services for young people which includes impartial and independent advice.

Decent training and apprenticeship opportunities.

Incentives for employers to train up young people And to keep them employed afterwards.

More paternity leave.
More affordable childcare.

Scrap the bedroom tax
Allow leas to open new schools
Stop aggressively policing school rules for parents (time off, packed lunches etc)
Provide more maternity beds
Stop privatising nhs and schools
More new build nuclear

A pledge to stop pissing around with education, this endless tinkering is achieving nothing but increasing the workload of those who work in schools, causing uncertainty and stress for children and lining the pockets of companies like Pearson.

I would like to see the next education secretary only make changes which are evidence-based, meet the approval of experts, are properly researched and tested before widespread implementation. Unlike academies, free schools, Ofsted ratings, the new qualifications, the new primary curriculum and so on.

Better sharing of parental leave would be a vote winner for me. Particularly if it allowed both parents to be off at the same time if wanted by a family. The current system effectively forces women into the primary carer role regardless of family circumstance.

I'd also like to see the burden of deficit reduction fall more evenly by extending it to pensioners who appear to have avoided all the cuts that have hit working age people. A start would be to scrap the winter fuel and free bus pass from higher rate tax payers. A bolder step would be to scrap national insurance and raise the basic rate if tax to compensate. This would ensure that pensioners (and the self employed) paid their full contribution.

Sort out the house buying chaos. So stressful and expensive to sell/buy houses in England

Divorce - review the options to try and make mediation more affordable and avoid the legal fights

Child maintenance. Stop disbanding the CSA because it's so expensive and ineffective. Make it effective and get child maintenance paid.

Do not privatise the NHS

Put maximum working hours into teachers contract

no more quotes Sweden is in the EU...

Better early intervention for autism overall, and more choice eg for those who want to use ABA for their children's education

More emphasis on building emotional resilience in schools and education in how to end / deal with a bad relationship.

school absences: clarity re exceptional circumstances as mentioed above. Our council think that all medical appointments should be done outof school, though how they think the waiting lists are going to be affencted with all parents wanting holiday appointments for the very busy childrens clinics I don't know.

it would be nice if the school/LEAs actually followed the SENcode of practice as well as improvements in their services. when I trained we had minimal education in SEN. that should be a compulsary part of teacher training.

Lack of state provision for academically able children with high functioning autism. Agree with one in eight on this. and other dual and multiple exceptionality children.

school uniform is going to be an issue.

Oh yes! As someone else just said, access to all GP services out of hours, they don't have to have a Phlebotomist available every night but once a week might make working folks lives easier.

Tackling the inconsistencies in the justice system regarding rape /sexual assault cases. Inconsistencies including less cases being bought to court, less convictions and sentencing inconsistencies.

Tackling sexism, on all levels.

I don't disagree with anything on your list but stuff especially close to my heart from your list:

More and better sex and relationship education in schools, especially age appropriate teaching around issues of consent which can start as simply as "You want to hug your friend but they don't want a hug, what should you do?" and "You're having fun chasing one of your friends, but they've started to look unhappy..." (You can tell I work in a school playground). I think understanding consent in play is the gateway to understanding consent in other things. Anyway, I was regularly groped and harassed through High School and beyond, I'm not getting the impression that things have got much better so there needs to be improvement.

The DoE website states that schools should not use exclusive suppliers for uniform and that uniform should not be a financial burden on parents. I would like more pressure brought on schools on this matter, they can make it part of the OFSTED inspection.

A bit more focus on children as individuals rather than part of an amorphous mass that may or may not reach government targets would be nice.

Bit of a "Five Exclamations' Wish List" thing but, a conscious effort to include historically notable women in history/topic at primary school, I'm bored with saying "tell that to Grace O'Mally (sp?), Mary Reed, Anne Boney et al" every time a little boy says "Girls can't be pirates" or whatever else they believe women have never done.

Stopping the privatisation of our NHS

More sensible taxation of overseas nationals and their assets; and much higher taxes on 2nd homes

Better funding & co-operation between the NHS, local councils and social services

Flexible working for all parents (and campaigns to "normalise" Dads taking a more active role in childcare

Quotas for women, particularly in the houses of parliament and companies - set at 35% minimum and with tax breaks for companies which achieve 50%!

Better support for pupils and students and investment in schools

Ensuring GP/nurse practitioner access at evenings and weekends and that it's free to get notes to provide to schools/employers

Making railway operating companies responsible for the track their trains run on (the chaos caused by Network Rail is wholly avoidable)

Breakfast and after school clubs at all schools (run by private providers / CIC's if necessary)

Radically restructuring Workfare to include practical skills training, working on projects to benefit their community e.g road resurfacing, painting etc and for the hours done to equate to minimum wage. Removal of subsidy for employers offering only unskilled work (e.g. Shelf stacking) on the scheme.

I'm sure I will think of some more!

I don't think its fair to stop child related benefits at a certain number if children as it won't stop a small minority having more kids they can't afford. It will put more children into poverty through no fault of their own.

More affordable/flexible child care is needed. Even in the north child care is about £20 per session (£40 per day) which is more than many in my area are able to earn once tax and NI are taken out. A proportion of this would be paid by tax credits but that kind of defeats the point in working to get off benefits.

I'd like to see they money used to bail out the banks being repaid back into the public purse now that the banks are making huge profits again.

More funding for the NHS to pay for more frontline staff to reduce prudery on existing staff and waiting lists for treatment.

Better provision for special needs so that children who need extra help get diagnosed sooner and get help sooner.