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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

Date

8 December 2017 12:10am–11:59pm

Location

England, Wales, Northern Ireland

NJC pay protest ahead of Local Government Employers meeting on 13 December

Let’s show our fantastic school support staff members and their colleagues that UNISON is right behind them, proud to support and […]

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: […]

‘The Chancellor needs to stop snipping away at children’s education and properly invest in their future’

The only thing that’s going to save schools, and ensure pupils get the decent, well-resourced education they need, is more money. The Chancellor needs to stop snipping away at […]

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 […]

And we’re working together with other education unions to hold a Lobby Against School Cuts on 24 October, to show MPs that school funding is still in crisis and that real increases in […]

It now says that instead of a flat settlement for schools in England it will increase funding by £416m in 2018/19, with a further increase of £884m in […]

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 […]

Thousands of parents, pupils, school staff and their unions demonstrated against cuts to school funding yesterday

School cuts are affecting children and UNISON will gear up campaigning against them, local government conference vows