LAUNCH OF STEVE SINNOTT FOUNDATION

Early day motion 557, tabled 11 January 2010 by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour). Signed by 83 members.

That this House welcomes the cross-party support at the launch in Parliament on 1 December 2009 of the Steve Sinnott Foundation, a charity set up to promote the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 2 of universal primary education for all by 2015; notes that the Foundation will work with teachers worldwide to set up a global online community through which they can share knowledge and experience and help secure a primary education for the 75 million children who are denied the opportunity to attend school; and further notes that the work of the Foundation will continue the work and commitment of Steve Sinnott, the late General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, who was passionate about the cause of primary education for all.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 40, Labour 36, Conservative 3, DUP 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1.