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More than a third of a million council and school support staff across England and Wales will begin voting today (Tuesday) on whether to strike over pay.

UNISON members are writing to councillors to demand fair school funding. Will you join them?

Three Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts with schools across the East Midlands have signed UNISON’s Learning Charter which commits them to support the learning needs of their staff. St Thomas Aquinas, Saint Ralph Sherwin, and Our Lady of Lourdes, who are part of the Nottingham Catholic Diocese, have committed to work in partnership with UNISON East Midlands […]

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea is to visit Ipswich later this week as council and school support staff vote on whether to strike over pay. Christina McAnea will speak at a rally on Friday outside Suffolk County Council headquarters Endeavour House as local government workers call for a pay rise of 2% above inflation. Staff […]

Southend school staff have fought off changes to holiday pay calculations that could have left them thousands of pounds a year worse off. Around 350 staff in community schools would have seen their pay drop by between £40 and £2,800 each year after Southend Council proposed changes to the formula for calculating holiday pay for […]

Support staff at a Sudbury primary school have called off further strikes after accepting a new deal saving most of their jobs, UNISON announces today. Two dozen classroom assistants and midday supervisors at Pot Kiln Primary took three days of strikes in April and May after the school announced plans to sack 15 staff to […]

‘We now have the absurd situation of government departments ringing schools days before term begins, telling them to prepare for potential building closures’

‘We now have the absurd situation of government departments ringing schools days before term begins, telling them to prepare for potential building closures’

‘We now have the absurd situation of government departments ringing schools days before term begins, telling them to prepare for potential building closures’

Number of schools with Raac rises to 174

Responding to the announcement today (Tuesday) that the number of confirmed cases of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in schools in England has increased to 174, UNISON head of education Mike Short said: “Many involved in education suspect ministers still aren’t revealing the true scale of this growing problem. “At-risk schools remain in the dark as they […]

Stars in Our Schools is back, and this year there’s a special focus on early years education. But hurry – the deadline for ordering all your fantastic Stars merch is 6 October

The management of Hull Collaborative Academy Trust (HCAT) must provide clarity over the high level of compensation paid to the chief executive and other senior staff, UNISON says today (Monday). The union, along with the National Education Union (NEU) and NASUWT, has written to the board of the multi-academy trust, over concerns the CEO is among […]

Teaching assistants, caretakers, cleaners and other school support staff in Hertfordshire will no longer have their wages stopped when they go off sick, UNISON announces today. Staff in schools run by Hertfordshire County Council were having their pay stopped for two days when they were too ill to work after the council changed its contractual […]

Hundreds of teaching assistants say they don’t have adequate training to deliver the Curriculum for Wales, says their union UNISON today (Thursday).