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Date

7 July 2022 12:30pm–1:30pm

Location

Online

Presenters and keynote speakers to be confirmed This webinar will update branches on the HESGE higher education pay campaign for 2022 and will provide an opportunity to share best practice and ask questions. Presenters and keynote speakers to be confirmed   Member only event – registration is required. Join  via the zoom link below https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-mvpzguH91q6PPMYShJwBne5lZoXvZQ […]

Date

14 – 18 November 2022

Location

Online

Organising Stewards NB: this course will now be delivered online. Tutorial dates remain the same. This course is aimed at newly elected and less experienced UNISON stewards and is delivered either online or in a classroom. This course will help you to understand the steward’s role in organising members at local level and help you […]

Date

15 July 2022 1:00pm–2:00pm

Location

Online

A quick walkthrough of MCT for activists to enable participation in UNISON’s HE phone banking campaigns.

Date

8 August 2022 10:00am–12:30pm

Location

Online

This online webinar will help participants learn how to communicate effectively and how to apply practical strategies to de-escalate and resolve conflict.  It would be most suitable for those people working with children and young adults in professional settings.   Objectives: Understand how to prevent and manage challenging and violent behaviour developing Understand how to […]

The action is likely to escalate unless AQA management is prepared to re-open talks

Date

30 November 2022 10:15am–12:45pm

Location

Online

About the webinar To support World Suicide Prevention Day on Monday 10 September UNISON are running this workshop for UNISON members facilitated by Cruse Bereavement Care. There is no single or right way to respond to a suicide. Recognising the individual circumstances are an important part of any support given to those bereaved by suicide. […]

Date

10 – 11 October 2022

Location

UNISON Northern, 140 - 150 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6TH

Note This is a two day course and learners must attend both days to complete the course. About the training The course will help you: Understand the H&S reps role; Carry out the H&S reps duties; Be more effective in the role; Understand the key rights of health and safety reps; Recognise the employers responsibilities […]

Date

19 October 2022 1:30pm–5:00pm

Location

Online

About the webinar The workshop is aimed at school support staff and delivered by the Open University. The day covers: understanding behaviour cycles methods of recording behaviour reflecting on what happens in a crisis strategies, tips and techniques for dealing with challenging behaviour Closing date 5 pm Tuesday 11 October Oops! We could not locate […]

Date

8 November 2022 9:30am–1:00pm

Location

Online

About the webinar This course is aimed at school support staff and delivered by the Open University. The day covers: what autism is symptoms of autism areas of difficulty supporting children with autism Closing date 5pm Monday 31 October Oops! We could not locate your form. Outcome

UNISON’s annual celebration highlights the amazing work that school support staff do, every day, around the country. They are the caterers, the admin staff, the […]

Cash-strapped school support staff are using their own money to help pupils and their families cope with the cost-of-living crisis, says UNISON today (Friday). A ​UK-wide union survey of more than 6,000 school workers reveals staff – including teaching assistants, catering and cleaning workers, librarians and sports coaches – are buying food for hungry pupils, and contributing towards the cost of […]

ONS decision means that senior leaders will have to justify big pay awards

Date

3 July 2023

Location

Online - MS Teams

Online workshop on improving UNISON member recruitment.

Chronic underfunding, overworked staff and simply not enough schools – inadequate SEND provision is leaving ‘vulnerable children by the wayside’

The complaint alleged that the education union had actively sought to recruit school support staff and had intervened in pay negotiations between the three recognised unions