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Today, we publish the league table for England’s 533 Parliamentary constituencies – every one of which stands to lose out from the […]

Jenny Ford, Lifelong learning Coordinator and Joint Branch Secretary, Portsmouth Health branch. Facilities manager for Solent NHS Trust, based at St James’s Hospital in Portsmouth. How long have you been a UNISON member? Gosh I can’t remember! I think around 18 years! How long have you been involved in member learning? The same amount of […]

UNISON South East was delighted last month to organise two inspirational CPD day’s for over 250 people at the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT). With separate days at Portsmouth and Medway, this was a fantastic opportunity to bring together school support staff from across the trust’s 14 different schools. UNISON organisers delivered interactive, wellbeing-focused workshops […]

‘Staying Strong – Managing Stress’ can be delivered over a lunch break, before or after work, or as a longer, ½ day course. It looks at identifying the causes of stress and […]

I completed my stage one training in Guildford alongside other new but very keen and enthusiastic ULR’s. I wasn’t ‘active’ in the union […]

UNISON is a union of women, over 1 million of them working across the public and private sectors delivering quality public services. Our women members are in all professions, catering assistants, nurses, midday supervisors, librarians, cleaners, social workers and cooks amongst a wide variety of jobs. A large proportion of our women members are low […]

For some time, Hampshire UNISON has been raising the subject of challenging and often violent behaviour towards school support staff across the county. A branch-wide survey was undertaken in 2017 which discovered that violent behaviour and challenging behaviour in schools was on the rise. School support staff work in incredibly challenging conditions, many of them […]

 What made you take this step? Since working within the school for all those years I became more interested in learning and would like to carry this forward in […]

I became a ULR as I wanted to use my skills to develop more informal learning sessions for those who may […]

Vicki Gibbs, Area Organiser for education and equalities, organised the event, and spoke about the ‘many joys’ of lifelong […]

Ministers should step back from 1 June target and put safety first

The webinar, presented by Abbey Dunn, talks about many valuable ways in which we can care for ourselves during lockdown. Identifying and managing stress Practical ways to improve […]

Westminster government’s testing priority list only includes ‘teachers’ for education in England, forgetting the rest of the education team

With only two webinars in the series left to host before its conclusion, the South East Education Team have held six webinars for members across the region since September, as part of the ‘Time for Change’ series. Webinar topics have included Redundancy Support and Information, Finding a Job, CV Writing, Interview Advice, Stress and Change […]

Community march planned for 15 May