Eleanor Ryan-Saha
Ready for Edinburgh Northern
I hope you’ll back my vision for change in our community
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WHo I am
I’ve lived in Edinburgh Northern for ten years, and I love it here.
I’ve relied on our community and our public services after becoming a carer to my disabled daughter.
I've worked in our constituency, first as a primary school teacher and now as a charity caseworker.
It’s been a privilege to give back as a volunteer youth worker and grassroots climate crisis activist.
I’m ready to represent our home and our community in Holyrood.
WHAT I STAND FOR
NHS and Social Care
NHS and Social Care
NHS and Social Care
I'm a caseworker for a child disability charity. I fight for the rights of marginalised families in Edinburgh Northern and beyond who are experiencing 6 year+ NHS waiting lists for diagnosis, medication and specialist treatment services.
We need NHS services that have the capacity to help before the point of crisis.
Families like mine are trying to meet the needs of their vulnerable members through a broken social care system.
Our constituents working in social care get a raw deal on pay and working conditions.
For everyone who cares in Scotland, we must do better.
Scottish Education
NHS and Social Care
NHS and Social Care
I went to a great state school, and was supported through scholarships to complete my first degree at Cambridge, and go on to do an MA and PhD.
I know first-hand the transformational value of equal access to excellent education. It's a right that must be restored to Scottish young people after 19 years of SNP mismanagement.
I'm a qualified primary school teacher, trained in Edinburgh. I've taught in our constituency schools. I know from experience the promise and pitfalls of Scottish education.
We need to work with teachers and parents to take decisive action and get attainment, attendance and safety in Scottish schools back on track.
Green Growth
NHS and Social Care
Green Growth
In Edinburgh Northern, we're rich in green and blue spaces.
Living here, I've learnt about the relationship between climate change and food insecurity in Edinburgh Northern, and worked to tackle it as trustee of a local community gardeners charity
I've volunteered across grassroots climate crisis action in our constituency, from coastal wildflower growing, to native oyster reintroduction.
We have a wealth of local green knowledge and activism, and I'm lucky to be plugged in to it.
When we connect local climate action with national clean energy investment, a Net Zero Edinburgh Northern is in reach.
Housing
Cost of Living
Green Growth
Many families and children that I work with and volunteer amongst are trapped in temporary accommodation. They are some of the worst hit by Scotland's housing emergency.
Labour held the SNP accountable for the housing emergency through the 2025 Housing (Scotland) Bill. Now Labour must be the party that ends it.
The current housing system is not working.
I'm a millennial, and I've faced the same struggle that Gen X and Gen Z face to afford rents in Edinburgh Northern, to build a life around rental insecurity, or to work towards home ownership. Housing is a key aspect of rising economic hopelessness in our young people.
Making a life in Edinburgh Northern should be possible for everyone.
Net Zero developments, like those under construction in Granton Harbour, need to be the norm not the exception.
Folks need homes.
A Safe Place
Cost of Living
Cost of Living
I love our constituency’s mix of old Scots, new Scots and everything in between. Like so many, my family history is rooted in immigration.
We need Scotland to always be a safe place for difference, and voices like mine must be raised against the forces that threaten this. Anything less just isn’t Scottish.
Spending time with girls and young women as a volunteer youth worker has taught me that girls in Scotland still don’t feel safe in their daily lives.
Supporting children and families across Edinburgh Northern has shown me that we’re not safe enough from crime in our neighbourhoods and online.
No one can thrive when they don’t feel safe.
Cost of Living
Cost of Living
Cost of Living
The cost of living crisis has left every household poorer in Edinburgh Northern.
The children and families I work and volunteer among are the hardest hit. I've introduced a poverty relief programme that focuses on food, clothing and period poverty.
UK Labour has already lifted 550,000 children out of poverty. It's a start, but we must keep going.
Only Labour can deliver fair economic growth, when the cost of living crisis has become business as usual for the SNP.
Only through growth can the standard of living rise in Edinburgh Northern. And only then will we deliver a safer, greener, liveable Scotland with public services we can be proud of again.