Joint letter to Philip Hammond from UNISON, Unite and GMB calls on him to fund ‘a decent pay award’ for school and council staff in this wee’s local government settlement
Joint letter to Philip Hammond from UNISON, Unite and GMB calls on him to fund ‘a decent pay award’ for school and council staff in this wee’s local government settlement
UNISON survey launched to find out what school meals staff have to say
Help celebrate our school support staff on social media at noon on 24 November
Fledgling MP Rosie Duffield has a very personal reason for supporting UNISON’s Stars in our Schools celebrations
In July 2017, the Department published four research reports relating to SEND. Three of these come from the DfE-funded ‘What Works’ project, which looked at SEN support for pupils in mainstream schools and colleges. The fourth looks at the wellbeing of secondary school pupils with SEN. The reports can be downloaded at the links below: […]
Government seem to think that such workers are easily dispensable – so-called “back office savings”. Yet office workers perform vital front-line work. In a recent […]
Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers will be attending the School Cuts mass lobby of Parliament this Tuesday, 24 October. They will bring the message to MPs that schools are seriously underfunded, which is having a negative impact on children and young people’s education. This situation must change. The majority […]
UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “The cuts in schools budgets and the fragmentation of the school system have undermined how health and safety risks […]
Join us for a Lobby Against School Cuts to show MPs that, despite the Department of Education’s welcome rethink, there is still a problem
Union welcomes rethink from original proposal but warns that many schools will still struggle
20-month dispute ends in victory for janitors in nursery, primary and ASL schools
The government’s funding announcement today (Monday) is disappointing and means a return to smoke and mirrors statements on school funding, say education unions. UNISON, ATL, NUT and GMB have said that whilst any extra money is welcome, it isn’t enough to stop the huge cuts that schools are making. Calculations published on the organisations’ School Cuts […]
“Jill and Becky showed the human side of the cuts,” said UNISON national secretary Jon Richards. “The last few years have seen increasing attempts to get rid of support […]
School cuts are affecting children and UNISON will gear up campaigning against them, local government conference vows
Faced with huge cuts to their pay, these UNISON members fought back