Schools should avoid opening the floodgates to a new wave of Covid infections by staggering the full return to the classroom, UNISON says today. Schools across the east of England are due to fully reopen on Monday, with an enhanced testing regime and face coverings for secondary school pupils. But UNISON warns that this may […]
Face coverings in schools have only been in place for a few weeks. Lifting this measure before the impact on transmission in schools has had time to be assessed would be rash.
Community march planned for 15 May
UNISON joins other education unions in England to put the case for continuing use of face coverings by staff and children
Securing fair pay for hard-working members is UNISON’s top priority, as general secretary urges members to make sure their voices are heard
UNISON has signed up to the charter after forcing the Department for Education to acknowledge role of all school staff
Many have reached a point where they simply can’t afford to stay in the job they love.
The union is calling on the Westminster government to urgently introduce additional measures to protect pupils and staff in all schools
UNISON has welcomed a decision by the Department for Education to drop plans to turn Leicester’s West Gate School into an academy. West Gate has 180 pupils, aged 4 to 19, with a range of learning needs. Pupils have moderate to severe learning difficulties, autism spectrum conditions, multiple learning difficulties and highly complex needs. In November 2018 […]
If safety measures are abandoned too early, in one fell swoop, the good progress made could be quickly undone.
Schools and nurseries up and down the country have been struggling with high absence rates, and a poor supply of tests only makes things worse.
Trying to force through mass changes to academy status is not only wrong-headed, it’s a complete distraction.
Schools in Chesterfield, Staveley and Worksop are affected. Unions representing staff in nineteen schools across the Catholic Diocese of Hallam have written to the Secretary of State for Education to begin legal action over letters they received informing them that they would be forced to join Multi-Academy Trusts. The letters, issued by the Regional Schools […]
No 10’s Living with COVID plan ‘is likely to result in further illness and disruption to face-to-face education’
We meet Claire Wormald, chair of the the regional education and training committee and branch secretary of Southend on Sea Borough Council UNISON, on full-time release from her role as a youth worker. “Youth workers in short are educators,” says Claire, “encouraging critical thinking to challenge the myths sold by the ruling class, such as […]
