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Teaching assistants increasingly provide cover for absent teachers, without lesson plans or help from other colleagues
Of those who responded, 7% said they’d been sexually harassed. - UNISON’s annual conferences started on Sunday and are taking place until Friday this week (21 June) at the Brighton Conference […]
Sexual harassment is widespread in schools with staff the target of physical advances, inappropriate comments and lewd remarks, according to findings published by UNISON today (Tuesday). A survey conducted in collaboration with UK Feminista, and published on the opening day of the union’s annual conference, shows one in ten (10%) female support staff in secondary […]
Job cuts threatened at eight Norfolk primary schools could force teaching assistants to strike, UNISON warns today. Wensum Trust, which runs the schools, wants to scrap all 75 teaching assistant posts, with staff expected to compete for 48 pastoral support roles, focussed on supporting children’s emotions rather than helping them to learn, says the union. […]