Following the publication of the Government’s final proposals for its long-awaited National Funding Formula (NFF), organisations representing school staff, teachers and leaders – ATL, GMB, NAHT, NUT, UNISON and Unite – have updated the schoolcuts.org.uk website to reflect the funding losses facing each school in England. The picture is extremely bleak. The Government has accused […]
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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 […]
A number of branches in the South East used UNISON’s member learning opportunities as a way to recruit new members and engage with existing members. Activists from Hampshire Local Government Branch offered members and potential members the opportunity to develop their professional skills and build their confidence, with a ‘Power to be you’ taster session. […]
I went along with them to open evenings at a local FE college, to find out about courses in Maths and English. They wouldn’t have even contacted the college if […]
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 […]
Helen Capstick, ULR at Solent University I have been a member of UNISON since 2011 but have become more active in recent years when I took on the role of Union Learning Representative (ULR) at Solent University. I became a ULR as I wanted to use my skills to develop more informal learning sessions for […]
- Date
- 20 – 21 January 2020
- Location
- Southampton City College
This refresher course aims to update reps on new legislation which is relevant to their role and introduce new developments within UNISON. UNISON South East Training Application Form Outcome
- Location
- Reading Business Centre, Fountain House, 2 Queens Walk, Reading RG1 7QF
It is part 1 of a stewards initial training and will help equip stewards with organising skills. for those who would like to go on and develop their representation skills, part 2 of the […]
- Date
- 27 – 31 January 2020
- Location
- Guildford Regional Office
As a steward, you are a vital link in the union chain and have an important role to play in organising members at local level. UNISON South East Training Application Form   […]
- Date
- 22 – 24 January 2020
- Location
- Reading Business Centre, Fountain House, 2 Queens Walk, Reading RG1 7QF
As a steward, you are a vital link in the union chain and have an important role to play in organising members at local level. UNISON South East Training Application Form   […]
- Date
- 3 – 7 February 2020
- Location
- Brighton Regional Office
As a steward, you are a vital link in the union chain and have an important role to play in organising members at local level. UNISON South East Training Application Form   […]
- Date
- 27 – 28 February 2020
- Location
- Guildford Regional Office
This refresher course aims to update reps on new legislation which is relevant to their role and introduce new developments within UNISON. UNISON South East Training Application Form Outcome