Thinking about what you can do to help tackle stress and promote wellbeing in the workplace? Read how ULRs and branches are using learning to promote health and wellbeing amongst members
Thinking about what you can do to help tackle stress and promote wellbeing in the workplace? Read how ULRs and branches are using learning to promote health and wellbeing amongst members
Are you a LGBT branch officer or contact or a UNISON member who wants to get more active in your granch? The training will focus on: the role of the LGBT branch officer […]
UNISON launches scheme as part of its commitment to helping give young people hope for the future
During Adult Learners Week more than 50 UNISON branches have arranged over 90 learning events across the West Midlands region
his week is Adult Learners’ Week, an annual opportunity to celebrate the value and pleasure of getting back into learning as an adult
‘Hot, healthy, nutritious’ school meals are key to a child’s development, says union
If you are thinking of doing some trade union-related studying, UNISON can help with your course costs. But you only have until 31 July to apply
UNISON believes these findings highlight a crisis in health and well-being engulfing schools, which could […]
“The severe cuts of £500,000 a year mean school support staff will either lose their jobs, or have to apply for new ones, some on much less pay […]
Commenting on the news today (Friday) that the government has abandoned its plans to force all maintained schools still linked to local authorities to become academies, UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “It’s reassuring that ministers have listened to the many arguments put to them and decided against pursing their ill-thought-out plans to force […]
Friday 26 August 2016 For immediate release Responding to the Local Government Association call for councils to have oversight of academy school finances, UNISON national secretary for education Jon Richards said: “UNISON has raised cases of suspected financial irregularity with the Department for Education, Education Funding Agency and the National Audit Office, all of which […]
Responding to government plans to reform school funding UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “Schools that are already underfunded will get much less than they’d hoped for. “Other highly rated schools in better resourced areas will see their budgets cut further still to fund those currently failing. “Good education doesn’t come cheap. Schools need […]