1. A New Deal for Community
David Malcolm and Colum McGuire

2. Session objectives:
To understand the ten asks within the New Deal for Community strand
To discuss how these might play out within your students’ unions and institutions
To consider what NUS can do to support you in these areas

3. A New Deal for Community: Focus
We want students to be empowered as active citizens within their communities and able to access and influence the services they need to thrive
Made up of ten areas for campaigning

4. A new deal for our right to campaign
We are calling on political parties to repeal the Lobbying Act and to strengthen protections for citizens who want to engage in peaceful protest so that nobody ever has to be afraid of speaking up.

5. A new deal for keeping promises
We want political parties to commit to making proper provisions for elected representatives to be kicked out of office when the people who put them there believe they have not lived up to their promises.

6. A new deal for votes at 16
We want political parties to show they care what young people think by committing to lowering the voting age to 16.

7. A new deal for youth services
We want local authorities to be given a statutory requirement and adequate funding to provide local youth services.

8. A new deal for citizenship education
We want schools and colleges to be required by law to provide adequate citizenship and sex and relationships education.

9. A new deal for student health
We want the next government to reverse the NHS Bill, go back to the drawing board, and ensure that we have a National Health Service that is public, accountable and fit for purpose for the next century and beyond.

10. A new deal for youth transport
We want the next government to grant free bus travel for all 16 to 19 year olds to ensure that no young person is prevented from taking up an opportunity due to transport costs.

11. A new deal for proportionate policing
We want government to remove random stop-and-search powers from the police.

12. A new deal for student renters
We want government to scrap letting agent fees so that students are clear on the costs of renting from the beginning, and are able to spread their costs across the year.

13. A new deal for global mobility
We want political parties to put an end to playing politics with our world-leading education system and scrap the use of arbitrary net migration targets.  

14. Group work Group 1: Group 4: Right to campaign Youth transport
Keeping promises Proportionate policing
Group 2: Group 5:
Votes at 16 Student renters
Youth services Global mobility
Group 3:
Citizenship education
Student health
Global mobility

15. Key questions to consider
How is this issue relevant to your members?
How might it resonate with your local community and prospective parliamentarians?
What activities and support from NUS would be useful in this area?

16. Thank you
If you have any questions following on from this workshop, please don’t hesitate to get in touch: